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Canada's first national historic park, Fort
Anne, was established in 1917 at Annapolis
Royal, in southwestern Nova Scotia. Since
then, Parks Canada has developed more
than 70 national historic parks and sites
representing a variety of historic themes in
jocations across the country.
Fort Anne was built by the French bet-
ween 1702 and 1708 to protect nearby Port
Royal, one of the first European settlements
in Canada. Situated at the junction of the
Allain and Annapolis rivers, Fort Anne was
designed to guard against naval attack.
y'--,hwork defences have survived and
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the powder magazine in the southwest bas-
tion and the storehouse in the northwest bas-
tion are original.
The officers' - quarters have been recon-
structed and now house a museum, with
exhibits of maps, ships, Indian culture and
the natural history of the area.
Located in the town of Annapolis Royal,
along Nova Scotia's scenic route 1, Fort
Anne's sweeping view of the beautiful
Annapolis Basin makes it one of Canada's
most, picturesque national historic parks. It
is open year-round.
Mildew not
easily defeated
By Gene Gary
Q. What can be done to
keep condensation from
forming and causing mil-
dew? We live 3 miles from
the coast and it seems we
-can't control this situation.
Last spring we wasted sev-
eral hundred dollars having
windows in our condo re-
moved and installing ther-
mal panes —. this did no
good. Many others in our
complex are faced with this
problem and we hoped that
the, thermal panes would be
the answer for us all, but
they failed.—L.H., En-
cinitas, Calif.
A. The air in coastal areas
does contain more moisture
than in other climates. In ad-
dition, we all create more
moisture within our homes
by activities such as cooking,
showering and laundry.
When the moisture content
in the air becomes too high
within the home, it fosters
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mildew and results in sweat-
ing windows, walls, pipes
and toilet tanks. This is
caused by the condensation
that always" occurs when
warm, moist air settles on
cool surfaces.
When it is too hoist, you
must find a way to let the
moist air escape (via fans,
vents, etc.) or trap it in a de-
humidifier, which performs
a function opposite to that of
a humidifier; that is, it takes
the moisture out of the air.
The better insulated your
home is, the more difficult it
is for the warm moist air 'to
escape. Your thermal win-
dows are an insulating de-
vice that helps keep the
warm air in and the cold air
out. Unfortunately, they will
not help yoir moisture prob-
lem when you need to find a
way to let the warm air es-
cape.
Q. We purchased a 5 -year-
old condominium two years
`ago and have a problem with
the threshold in the doorway.
This problem was not evi-
dent in the summertime,
when we. purchased this
home from the builder. What
can .we,do-to.remedy the -situ-
ation and keep the threshold
from buckling?
We have had to'remove the
strip on the bottom of the
door and now we are getting
a lot of cold air through the
bottom. We have covered
this area with rugs to try to
keep out the cold.
When we complained to
the builder, he sent a man
here and all he did was ham-
mer down the threshold.
Since then, when it gets very
cold, it buckles right up.
We cannot open or close
the door, which we believe is
dangerous in case of fire. We
also are losing a lot of heat.
Please tell us what clan be
done.—J.J.K.
A. If your condominium is
on the first floor, this could
be caused by moisture get-
ting under the concrete slab,
and when cold weather
comes, the freezing of
moisture causes expansion,
which causes the threshold
to expand and buckle.
Check the drainage around
the doorway and exterior
walls of your home. Be sure
that rain and melting snow
are draining away from the
foundation.
It might help to remove the
wooden threshold and seal
the -concrete using a' got 'd
masonry sealer, then re-
place the threshold.
Moisture is about the only
thing I can think of that
would cause this ,problem
only when you have freezing
weather,
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Visiting
bet's have a convention!
In what primeval swamp, by
what hairy ancestor, was
that suggestion first offered
sixty million years ago?
Wherever it was, and who-
ever it was, an institution
was born that has pro-
liferated into a countless -
billion -dollar business, a
source of pleasure for
millions, and a mountain -
sized headache for hundreds
of thousands, each year: the
convention.
Can't you see them sitting
around on their haunches,
chewing a morsel of mam-
moth, and sweating out the
details?
Where to have it, the big
cave or several smaller
ones. Size of the convention
fee — two round stones or
three? Women allowed?
Unanimous NO. Door
prizes? Entertainment?
Keynote speaker? Agenda?
Little did they know what
they were letting their
descendants in for.
Dragooning into service a
Convention Committee:
Burp, Yob, and Gunk. Setting
up subcommittees: the
Round Wheel Committee;
the Fire Without Lightning
Committee; the Bigger
Slingshot Committee.
Forgive them, Father,
they knew not what they did.
Like many another great,
simple idea, that of The Con-
vention has grown in scope
and complexity until it em-
ploys a staggering amount of
time, money and nervous
energy in the twentieth cen-
tury.
In today's society, and
especially in the western
world, The Convention is a
fact of life. Everybody from
librarians to lawyers, from
postal workers to politicians,
from hairdressers to
hustlers, is into the conven-
tion syndrome.
Housewives are nervously
planning their wardrobes for
the newspaper convention.
Doctors are putting the final
touches to their cure -for -
cancer paper for the medical
convention. Writers are
polishing their latest
creative explosion for the
authors' convention.
Politicians are frantically
reinforcing their ramparts
for the party convention.
Reeves and deputy -reeves
are wangling a pass to the
Good Roads Convention.
Shriners are refurbishing
their fezzes, lawyers tarting
up their torts, and labor
leaders seeking new slogans,
as convention fever slowly
but surely seizes them.
A convention is many
things to many people. To
the organizers, it is a nerve -
frazzling ordeal, a labor of
love, and a pain. in the arm,
the pain replaced by ex-
hausted bliss when every-
thing goes well, there are no
fist -fights and no heart at-
tacks.
To the hard core who at-
tend the business sessions, it
is an intense exercise of
picking others' brains, dis-
covering new ideas, and
working themselves up in the
pecking order toward that
shining summit = President
of the organization.
To the casual convention -
goer it's a combination of a
little business and a lot of
pleasure; living it up in a
swank hotel; meeting old
friends; post-prandial
parties; "hospitality suites"
with free booze; pleasant
outings planned by the
sweating organizers; a little
trade or professional gossip;
a once -a -year holiday;
making new friends.' All in
all, a bit like a ship's cruise,
without the possibility of mal
de mer, although a distinct
probabilityof mal de tete.
My first acquaintance with
conventions was slightly
traumatic. I was a night
porter (cleaning latrines,
scrubbing floors, polishing
brass) on the old Hamonic, a
passenger boat plying the
Great Lakes. We'd picked up
a load of conventioners at
Duluth and taken them to a
convention in Detroit, where
they used the boat as a float-
ing hotel.
And floating was the word.
Many of them were awash by
the time we reached Detroit.
About three a.m., I was
polishing the brass rails
leading down from the lobby
to the lower deck. Gruelling,
lonely work. Out of nowhere.
appeared a very drunk lady
who felt sorry for me, and
offered to remove the brass
polish to help me.
So saying, she hoisted her
skirt. straddled one of the
br#ss rails, and slid down it,
vigorously shining with her
stockinged legs .until
collapsing in a crumpled
heap at. the _bottom...
• f was a bashful seventeen.
She was an old lady (at least
thirty-five). It was an alarm-
ing, fascinating experience.
As a weekly editor, I soon
discovered that the news-
paper convention was the
only anodyne to a slavish
sixty-houra week oc-
cupation. Turn off the press-
es, lock the doors, and head
off for the convention.
In those days, conventions
were held at some of the
great old railway hotels like
the Manoir Richelieu at
Murray Bay, on the St.
Lawrence. For four or five
days, we lived like royalty,
before going back, sated, to
the old editorial desk, where
we lived like peasants;
Right now, I have to decide
whether to attend a conven-
tion of old fighter pilots. I
know I should burn the invit-
ation. I don't think I could
survive it. But I'll probably
go, if they'll just promise to
scatter my ashes to the four
winds, and let me keep on
flying.
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You'll still have money
(NC) — "Perhaps you
might be able to assist me in
solving my perennial prob-
lem of not having the
money to do the things 1
want."
That's what the letter.
said. He was writing me in
response to' a previous arti-
cle on "How l Got$ I Million
of O.P.M. (Other People's
Money) to work for me!"
(Should 1 share my secret?
It's a secret that's been
around for thousands of
years.
Using O.P.M.
Sure I've been able to get
in excess of $1 million of •
Other People's Money
working fon rne: But • it
wasn't easy. and never will
be easy. If somebody knows
an easier method, please
share it with me.
The 'secret" as written
thousands of years ago,
simply states "you must
save a part of everything
you earn". In other words,
make it a goal tosavea per-
centage of your total earn-
ings. if you earned $$20.000
a year and saved 10 per
cent, that would he $2,000
per year. If you saved that
$2,000 per year at 15 per
cent (what we expect good
mutual funds to achieve) at
the end of five years you
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IT'S YOUR MONEY
Paul J. Rockel
would be, worth $15,507 on
the $10,000 invested. If you
used that to borrowan addi-
tional $15,000, you riow
would have $,30,000,work-
ing for you: When that
•-$30,000 doubled in 5 years
you would have .$30,000
working for you. When that
$30,000 doubled in five
,years to $60,000, you could
- then -use the $60;000 -to bor-
row another $40,000, giv-
ing you $100,000,- which
would double in the next 5
years to $200,000, which
could be used after 5 years
to borrow another$200,000,
giving you $400,000, etc.,
etc. In 25 to 30 years, you
would have $1 million
working for you, most of it
from O.P.M, (Other Peo-
ple's Money).
Now you have value. All
the gain belongs to you. You
probably used a mutual
fund withdrawal plan to
help you meet the monthly
interest costs at the bank,
and your personal value,
after paying off the bank
would be over $500,000.
You now want to start a
business, or buy a cottage,
or an island down south ...
or .. or. Don't use any of that
money, but borrow the
money to buy the business,
cottage, etc, and go .on a
monthly withdrawal plan
to pay the interest. If the
mutual funds earnmrrre'the
interest costs, use the sur-
plus to reduce the borrowed
principle,, and in time you
could end up with the busi-
ness AND the money.
It works. 1 know, because
I've done it.
Money still there •
If you were to take your
assets and invest them in a
business, or a cottage, and
the business were to fail, or
the cottage burn down
(without insurance) you'd
end up"with nothing. My
way you would still have
the money, and the proba-
ble methhd of paying off
any outstanding loan bal-
ance, with the possibility of
hot hurting your invested
value.
But, to do these things,
you MUST save first. In-
vestment (mutual funds)
did it for me. That's where I
saved, and kept my invest-
ments.
For a FREE brochure on
investment funds ask for
"21 Reasons" and write:
Paul J. Rockel, 153 Union
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sociation of Canada.
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