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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1972-11-08, Page 11SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11 • SERVICE - (FormeilY Mohan Shoes) SH ES Lucknow Phone 528-2011 LUCKNOW and DISTRICT SWIMMINC. POOL FUND ,SUPPORT THE REMEMBRANCE DAY • 137-csnor Skoites For The.Wh.ole, Family Pelleted: Rations? Some Livestockt Sometimes! Some Places! Feeders of hogs, ,chickeri broilers and turkeys derive' the greateSt feeding advantages from pelleted rations. With broilers and turkey's, the, purpose is to en-8-b-l-e—t-Fre-Tbird-s—ter---eat----m-ore.- With hogs there are big advantages . . improye,ci feeding efficiency (about '10%), and improved 'rates of gain (7-8%). The . eXplan6tion is that the pelleted rations provide increased digestible energy, increased availability of whet' nutrients, and reduced feed wastage through-th-e-WICT61 eliminatrbn of firkes and dust. For other classes of: livestock, 'notably laying 'hens and cattle, the advantages are largely in handling. '13 in fl-ow-is---m-ad-6,--e-astur -andsegrega- tion. of ingredients is reduced. ,IYlaybe. it's time you switched .to SHUR•GAIN P'ELLETED RATIONS? Le ts_s_discuss_i t WEDNESDAY,, NOVEMBER ,1116,.1972_ THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL, LLICKNOW ONTARIO PAGE ELEVEN Country Mouse Views several kindsrof familiar conifers as well, as jack pine , silver •pop- lar seruband.eventually miles and miles of muskeg With small., Ontario Northland Brio:gin . Your Negative Do We'll The Rest ( 44 the gainfrom there; It-is almost- Thy--trairm=haAT pictures of-Polar '600 miles straight'north of Tipton- Bears on the sides and printing- to, 'but you do not go straight , in English and also.Cree 'Syllabics, and the trairi•crew wear green Trot in the Canadian North. To uniforms; a pleasant change • prepare. myself for the North , I had read Canada NOrth by Farley from the usual navy blue. The Mowat , a fascinating book. Polar Bear runs on the Ontario ' Northland ,Railway which . • Wavibuilt during this century to serve.the farming communities in Northern Ontario, bur more impOrtant , as, events proved , to serve. the mines and lumber and paper ,itidustrie,s , After we left.Cochrane., .the ings Were nearly all frame with a very few brick,' but almost no stone.. We dO notusu.-alT) think' of farming in Northern. Ontario, but then we. remember 'The Great , Clay Belt that, we heard about in school, and the travel' brochures mentioned The Little Clay Belt. . We Saw -fatnis with grain, Hete- ford cattle'. a few sheepkandsgard- ens. :But soon. we were 'in ,our idea of The North lakes ,•rivers, trees, grass wild flowers (or weeds), HE LOCKNOW SENTINEL HOTOCARDS We left Toronto at 8,in, the evening, so had reserved Room- ettes for the night. trip. They -were dinky little .rooms with.all we needed for :corrifort and con- venience.' The main catch was that the beds had to be partly, -upended to be able to enjoy the 'Convenience .. We were soon • 'settled for a good. sleep.. In the morning'we triedlo think of all 'the ,words to describe the noises - cre,ak, squeak, squawk, rattle, grind ,. bang , whirr roar, whistle , ,toot, friction,. Moan, clank, . clang,. twist ., bump, thump. ,Add- ed.to that , one light, .in the room- ette, would not go out. I "slept' with the towel over my eyes. Our ticket included breakfast , 'a'nd as We were to arrive at Coch- rane at 8 a .n:.it meant an earl- • jet' start- than. Lam accustomed 'to. But I can assure you that juice, . toast, marmalade and tea Were stunted trees; Some were no more than 3 feet high but may have been 100 years old - Ely. more. We spent the morning Watching the changing scenery through a ;gentle rain. It stopped before we arrived in Moosonee but it was cloudy , cold and windy. We , walked from the station to our Motel - about half a mile and our cases were very heavy before we were there! The Motel (there are two) was all one could-want- in comfort , and had its own din- ing room. There are taxis and • mini-buses in the Village but they were not around when we wanted them.. There were cars, truc motor cydles - we saw two, young Indian boys riding a small-Honda - but bicycles are not as popular as here. Therailway reached Moos- onee in 1,931 and most of the vil- lage has been built since then.: The streets are, mostly unpaved ,' and there are some sidewalks. the who~e_village_is a_cattlaus mixture of the old and the very modern. The houses range from, log bufld-ings--to some Al can pre-fabs. The Post Office is probably 10 years old and is , brick and there is 'another build- ing , just finished, housing other Government offices. (One can almost date the election years•by the age of such bundingsT) There are some very small shops and the •fairly.large Bay Store which is just like any small department store Mere and even the prices are' just about the same The 'Lions' have a gift Shop: of Indian and Eskimo crafts of various kinds. There are four churcheS in the village. 'We visited the Anglican which is ' undergoing renovation, and the Oblate which is a large brick Catholic Church. •You may' know' that the present Anglica.n Bishop Moosonee was in the Lucknow areain biyearly pastoral days.. Do you reMember Rev. James Watton,and his wife, the former *Irene The of Sheppardton? . The Most iMpressive,and. • modern-is-tic the brilliant sun was'shining on acres of mud flats with a few tiny rivulets running across. We had forgotten that the Moose was.a tidal river. • We found an Indian with a cargo canoe with motor to take us across to nose Eae_tory on one of those Islands. Moose Factory' was one of .the early trad• ing posts of the "Governor and Company of Adventurers of Erig- land trading into Hudson's Bay" formed in 1670. What a grand- iose name! Quite a comedown to' "The Bay" as the stores are known now .. In those days, busi- ness was all by barter, and con- sisted of furs brought in by the Indians and traded for whatever caught their fancy. Moose Fact-' or-y has-an •interesting-Mu-seurri-of the 300 year History. There is . CONTINUED ON PAGE 7 very welcome. At/Cochrane 'we were to change to The Polar Bear Express in 15 minutes, but that was the Excursion Train and we thought the regular train, an hour later might be more interesting. The Excursion train makes one or two stops but the regular•train •- . stops anywhere in the winder- ness to take on or put off passeng-. ers or freight. 'We saw one trainman jump off and carry a. • parcel to a house beside_ the tracks and at another place two boys from Pennsylania got off to camp in the bush after .the conductor promisted to pick them up two days later. Both boyS carried heavy back packs. For a number of years, I have been promising myself 'a trip north to Moosonee. I remember, that there were some school child• ren' from Moosonee visiting around Kingsbridge last spring and some children from the south re- turned the I wo-ndered— if you might like to have some of my,reactions. My travelling companion was Alma Pick of Kincardine. Some of you may remember her as Alma Howell who taught music in Lucknow some years ago. We went right from Toronto to Moosonee by train, but it might be, more comfortable to take longer and motor to Cochrane, and take lags is the Education gpntre 7 . . all shatpa , ngles and at least three The Public-Scho-ol is iii one wing', the Separate In another .and the-Kindergarten is In athird, 1-thin-k-.--.-There-are-vatiOus-O-ffice-s- , and rooms where Clinics are held. . The centre of the building is a beautifuI'Library ;-and.:I think it, . must be used by, the. whole village Certainly , some °tale books I .• • picked hp were 'beyond Grade 8 pupils.. There is a lot of con= about, the value of our educationsystent as applied to the Native'Peoples. Many of them • cannot fit into. either their •OWn world or Ours.' But if the Educa- tion in Moosonee is as good 'as the building ,. it should do something. - -ethef-cnredem.---imt.a4lart.491U-i Moe'sonee.are a .Weather Station, -an Airport and -a Radar Base.. When we Called it a day fairly earl] we had 'a:last:1,09k at the rivet just across the road from the. ••Motel„i luvplti stretch of water with sevet,;1 nds out bit, Jr) the nio '.-I) w.e wn