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1 have written before about
the great 4,000-mile water route
to he travelled by our Centen-
nial Canoe Pageant next summer.
Ten canoes manned by teams
from the provinces will traverse
the historic waterway from the
Rocky mountains to Montreal.
The fact that Canada stretches
from sea to sea is due partly to
the existence of this and other
waterways.
The "north west passage" bY
water across Canada Was estate
lisped long before the time of
Confederation. In fact, one might
say, it had its beginnings when
Columbus and many other ex-
plorers unsuccessfully sought a
seaway to the far east through
the west.
The explorers discovered the
first part of the waterway west
of Montreal in their hunt for a
route to China. Then, once
found. it oceanic the highway of
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THE NATURE OF THINGS
GOES TO GALAPAGOS
This prehistoric) individual is one
of the many speciee of iguana
that abound in the Galapagos. Is-
lands, 600 miles west if Ecuador
in. the Pacific Ocean. Starting
Sunday, Sept, 4th, 0130-TV's
The Nature of Thjggs presents:
series of five programs about
these weird and beautiful &pia-
tirial islands, whose unimie
animal and plant inhabitants set
the great Darwin on the road
to the theory of evolution.
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the fur traders who bad leareed
that there was local wealth to
be exploited — much closer than
China or ludia.
While the fur traders were
producing .ctinsiderable com-
mercial canoe traffic between
Montreal and the Rocky Moune
tains, other people were still in-
tent on finding a north weet
Passage for big ships, Twenty,
twO years before Confederation.
Sir John Franklin, the great
Arctie explorer almost forgotten
by Canadians today, set out to
find a northern shipping route,
through the Arctic with two
Royal Navy ships, the, Erebus and
the Terror.
There were 119 officers and
men on Frankklin's two shipe
when they entered the Arctic area
in 1845, They were seen last in
Tilly of that year by ;mother
passing ship in Baffin's Bay. Then
the Erebus and the Terror van-
ished and none of the 129 ever
returned from the Arctic.
Numerous expenditures sent
from England, from, the United
Stales and by groups from the
Hudson's Bay Company searched
for the lost explorers without
success.
Evidence uncovered in later
years proved that the Erebus and
the Terror. iranped in Arctic ice,
had not been abondoned until
three years after they had been
sighted he the= passing ship in
Baffin's, Bay, As late as 1860
Eskimos saw a large party of
white men travelling south near
the mainlend, dragging a small
boat and sleds. There are many
conflicing stories about what,
actually happened to the 129 men.
In tSee expedition sent
out by Lady Franklin found a
written record by a captain of
one of the ships. it gave an ac-
e:lent Of their terrible trials Up
to the spring of 1848.
Franklin was -lost but the
search expeditions provided in-
formation for Mapping of a
vast area of the Arctic with its
complicated islands, inlets and
straits.
Although Much knowledge
was gained through Arctic ex-
peditions in the Mid-nineteenth
century the canoe rents across
Canada remained, for a long time,
the backbone of the east-west
transpertation sYstem and the one
we will '`rediscover" with our
Centennial canoes, Even to
day. with all our techtiology, the
north west passage via the Arctic
Waterway is Pot for use by com-
mie ce.
Durine, Centennial year Cana-
dians will he looking at history
with renewed interest. Like the
story et' the search for the north
west pnssapee, which I have barely
touched in this sort column,
there are ninny more chits make
fascinating reading tor yotizt
and pid.