CASTLEGAR NEWS, May 22, 1983 ~ Sports: Four shutouts in Minor Soccer — By CasNews Staff Four shutouts and a score- less tie were recorded in Castlegar Minor Soccer League action Thuradey night. In Division eight (8 and under), Dairy Queen de- feated Maloney Pontiac 2-0, while the Cohoe Insurance- Mountain Sports Hut game saw no goals scored. In division seven (9-10- year-olds), Nelson defeated Castlegar Savings Credit Union 60. In division six (11-18-year-olds), Rossland beat Celtics 4-0 and Rangers defeated Rossland 6-0. Wednesday night saw West's beat Tudor Sports 1-0 in division six while the Bar- tle and Gibson vs. Rossland game was cancelled in divi- sion seven, - Cu-Dot Sports Castlegar = On Tuesday Castlegar Sa- vings defeated Castle The- atre 4-1 while West's beat Celtics 8-0 in division six. Monday in division -eight DairyQueen and Mountain Sports Hut played to a score- less draw and Cohoe Insur- ance defeated Maloney 1-0. In division six Rossland defeated Rangers 8-1 while the Tudor vs. Rossland game was cancelled as well as the Bartle and Gibson vs. Ross- land game in Division seven and the Beaver Valley vs. Castlegar game in the Ban- tam Division. Saturday, May 14, Castle Theatre scored’ 4-1 over Rossland in Division seven, Friday, May 18 saw Warfield defeat Castlegar 5-2 in the Bantam division. — NBA, time is subject to chang FOOTBALL — USFL, 1 Tand 13, ying positions, 3 p.m., chai FASTBALL at tnland park, and Kalesnike! Park, both games 6 p.m ran ‘até p.m, BASEBAL :k, Inland Park, 6 8, ield ot Castlegar }0:30 a.m. inal 4, GOLF — PGA, Atlanta Classic, ‘Final round, 12:30 p.m., channels AUTO RACING — Indianapolis 500 Time Trials for the final qual- inne! 4. MONDAY .BASEBALL — Pony League, team uy v3, pony fleldat 6 p.m. — Commercial League, Northwest Homes vs Labatis — Mosquito League, Kootenay Savings vs Klothes Kiover at Kinnaird middle fle! i. 6p. ESD "ASTBALL — Commercial Lesuue: ‘hums vs Hi Arrow, Throms - Pony League, team 3 vs 2 at'the pony field, 6 p.m. — Bronco League, Kootenay Savings vs Malonay Pon- _ Mosquito tes, team 4 vs Seth Martin, Kinnaled WE WILL SELL YOU Only the Bike for Poa YouR Size AND YOUR NEEDS! vs Carling O'Keefe at Kinnaird Orienteering trials held [ Twenty-seven orienteers ran around Beaver Creek Provincial Park May 14 and 15 using maps and compass to find 12 controls through- out the park and adjacent areas. They were ‘participating in a combined beginners’ event and the trials: for the B.C. Summor Games. Renice Coombs, the gold medal winner in last year's Summer Games, organized. the event for Trail Parks and Recreation and the Orient- eering Association of B.C. It was the beginning of Na- tional Orienteering Week, which is being held in con- junction with National Physi- cal Activity Week. Helping Coombs was. Van- couver's Ross Burnett, one of the top-ranked orienteers in Canada. ment SAVINGS FOR Gravs 20% orr Shop Now For Your Special Day! BONNETT'S BOY'S & MEN'S WEAR 233 Columbia Ave., Castlegar Ph. 365-6761 HOP, SKIP... With a hop, skip and a jump, these two youngsters compete in the three-legged race during schools track school, t d Par meet held reigey at Woodland Park elementary —CasNews Photo by Cheryl Wishlow a Oolischania. All REGIONAL RECREATION COMMISSION#1 | May 22 — Slow Pitch, Maloney vs. Mt. Sports, May 23 — Recreation office closed. Stat. holiday. ze Medallion Course. Ootischenia, Loomis vs. Rivers. $1.50, kirk College. shop, Complex, 9. a.m. ca lege. May 24 — Begin accepting registration for Bron- aay 25 — Dog Obedience, Complex. 7 to 9:30 May /26 — Slow Pitch. Dixie Lee vs. Community 2. May 27 — Roller Skating Complex, 7 to 8:30 p.m. 9 to 10:30 p.m. Admission $1.00; skate rentals May 27 — Coaching Theory, Level | Clinic, Sel- May 28 — Placer Mining, gold panning work- 28 — Coaching Theory Level | Clinic, Selkirk 2601 - 6th Ave., Castlegar - Phone 365-3386 Bank of Montreal, Twin By CasNews Staff Robson General Store beat Ivan's Carpets 20-11 in junior action of Little Lassies Soft- ball League Thursday night.. Other junior games saw Castlegar Furniture Village ‘triumph over Trail Auto Body 20-6 while Salmo routed to a 19-15 victory over Blue- berry Creek CBers. Tak's Furniture Village outscored Wool Wagon Arlington Hotel 15-5. In Intermediate play Co- hoe Insurance defeated Val- ley Maid 14-6, Pass Creek Homes 20-9 and Dave's Trucking beat Castlegar EE TOWING WITH MAJOR REPAIRS Borderline Transmission Your Automatic Transmission Specialists TRANSMISSION ‘SERVICE SPECIAL $18.60 INCLUDES: road test, remove pan, visual inspection, clean sump, replace screen, adjust , bands and linkage, replace pan gasket and fluid. Automatic Transmission shift Kits in stock. 1 Day service in most cases. 368-32 P.O. Box 114 2885 B Highway Drive Trail, B.C. Free Estimates - FREE COURTESY CARS WITH MAJOR. REPAIRS” defeated Mike’s Mobile--- Robson takes Ivan's Carpets " vings Credit Union 19-4. On Wednesday night in junior play Castlegar Furni- ture Village downed Elk’s Lodge No. 50 20-13, the Rob- son General Store trounced Tak’s Furniture Village 24-5. Intermediate action saw Adco Floors whip the Blue wilson, New York, Jays' 24-16, Castlegar Sa- ‘Angglos, 49, 1.00 vings tied Salmo 6-6, Dixie Lee edged Tudor Sports 18-12 and Elk’s Lodge tied Maloney Pontiac 4-4. In the only,senior game Beaver Valley, Esso beat Sal- mo 24-14. * Tuesday night in the inter- tediite division Cohce In- victorious over Dave ou Dratkog with a 10-4 score,'Elk’s Lodge No. 60 be- came unstoppable, defeating Valley Maid 24-6 and the Castlegar Savings (Tarry's) vs. Maloney Pontiac game resulted in a 21-9 victory for cscu. In junior play Robson Gen- eral Store outperformed Wool Wagon Arlington Hotel 13-1 while Ivan’s Carpets won 17-6 over Elk'’s Lodge No. 50. t Burnett ‘has ms three weeks in the, area creating orienteering maps for the Kootenay Orienteering Club. ,. Results: of the Beaver Creek event:, Wayfarers: | 1. ‘Trent ‘Coombs (Fruitvale). 66:49,2. Bryce ‘Coombs . (Fruitvale) 59:01; 3, Rachel Abbey (Ross- land) 65:04 Juniors: 1. Chris Bullock (Castlegar) 67:25; 2. John Walton (Castlegar) 72:15; 3. Rita. Szekely (Rossland) 72:16, - Senior Men: 1. Scott Don: ald (Rossland) 64:87; 2. Terry Coombs (Fruitvale) :79:44; 3. Alan Baker (Trail) 93:41. Senior Women: 1, 0; Mary. Baker (Trail)’ 1:04:24; 38. Shirley Donald (Rossland) 1:06:84, °° The five orionteers who will represent the Kootenays at the B.C, Summer Games . are Chris Bullock, John Wal- ton, Scott ‘Donald, Terry Coombs and Carol Scott, with Darryl Marko as spare. Makortoff wins ‘second round Laverne Makortoff was the winner of the second round of the Castlegar. Ladies Golf Club's Pat Gordon Electric tournament-,held Tuesday. Lesley Johanson was the runner-up. . Louise Gjeninestad, Clarice McKinnon, Cherie Lyons and Helen Clay were.the low net runners up. Judy Wayling, Myrt Cooper.and McKinnon had the least putts. t Ruth Trickey-was the win- ner of the club championship tournament played. May 14 and 16. Diony McArthur was runner up. Peg Nocair and Verna Chernoff were second and third runners up, res- pectively. Following are Tuesday's, tee off times: 9 am. — R. Trickey, L. Johanson, C. McKinnon; 9:07 — M. Sherstobitoff, M. Mor- oso, ‘J. ‘Wayling; 9:14 — 8. Forrest, L...Makortoff, M. Makaroff; 9:21 — P. Nocair, L. ‘“Gjennestad, M. Alling- ham; 9:28 — N. McDonald, M. Cooper, C. Lyons; 9:35 — A, Fishwick, M. Perehudoff, P. Lamb; 9:42 — K. Home- niuk, E. Woodward, H. Rob- erts; 9:49 — J, Eiipateieks P. Melnick. : Weekend Wrap- -Up . i‘ " o-000~ ASSES ° arsseeshse Seyeneeeyyy wate ee im Kero, NW Homes|” BERS Poa] sguae ES Foowny Sesnanaresce ” y; 7 SUalee: Rey, Plitsburgh: 15; Asiby. Mavs, i Beach, Clocionti, Wz Dow: ton, Montreal, 11. ‘Triglee: Moreno, Houston: 5: Dawson, Montreal, 4. Home unas Murphy, Atlanta, 11; Guer- rero, Los Angeles, 1 é ape ted surphy, Atlanta, 33: litsburgh, 133 ., Houston, ores, eoutst Cot Mewillioms, Plttiburgh, 54: 2, Los’ Angeles, 7; Deteon, son lege, fy Fornier, Aton, 3 5: Hume, Cincinnati, 5; Minton, Son ‘AMERICAN eeeg--| ~eauen SEAR MESCSML SEGRBUsRE 1 9 Point Pre-Holiday Safety Mespoetion Doubles: kenga, 13; Brett, Kanon Sty, 135 27 Fords Betis 3; roe, Teiptess Wilson, Detrott, 3: wintield, New York, 4: Moore, Milwaukee: 4. Runs: DeCinces, Califomia, 11: Breit, Kansas City, 10. betted ln: Brett, Kanecs City, 32: Word, Minnesota, 32, a axpuganne i 2 eonu bos Hi Arrow ona high By CasNews Staff Hi. Arrow Arms continued its torrid pace in the Castlegar Men's Commercial Fastball League with a pair of shutouts this week, 2-0 over:Labatts Monday and 6-0 over Carling O'’Keofe Tuesday. . The victories improved Hi. Arrow’ 's record to eight wins and one tie, leaving them the only unbeaten team in ‘the league. They hold a five-point bulge over second-place Northwest Homes, which has 12 points on six wins and four losses. Carling O'Keefe is tied for third spot with ‘Theums Indians. Each has 10 points, though O'Keefe has a‘game in hand on both the Indians and Northwest Homes. O'Keefe has won five games and lost four, while ‘the Thdians ‘are an _even .600 with five wins and as many losses. Labatts holds down fifth spot with seven points onthree wins and a tie in nine games. Kalesnikoff has yet to win a game in nine outings and is mired in the cellar. In the league batting race, O'Keefe's Cal Sookro moved from third to first spot with a .450 average on nine hits in 20 at bats. The statistics include only batters with. 20 appearances at the plate. - Last week's leader, Dave Kirby, did not play much this week and didn't have 20 at bats. Meanwhile, Hi-Arrow’s Gary Konkin holds down second spot with a .488 average, while teammate Pat Fenrick is in third place at .429. Hi-Arrow. has four of the top 10 hitters, The other two are John Obetkoff and Terry’ Halisheff. For full league standings and hitting statistics, see the Weekend Wrap-up on page B2. In action this week, Hi-Arrow shut down both Labatts and Carling O'Keefe. In the Labatts game, hurler Lawrence Halisheff was credited with the shutout, holding. Labatts to only four hits. Don Deschene, Marcel Apels, Norm Deverney and Pete Evdokimoff had the hits. ¢ Evdokimoff took the loss for Labatts, though he too PIAS oF , threw a four-hitter. Hi-Arrow scored both its runs in the opening inning when Obetkoff led, off with a single. Fenrick reached base on an error and Halisheff and Hal Heeketh sacrificed. both runners home. In ‘the 6-0 whitewashing over O'Keefe, George Plotnikoff picked up the win with Grant Sookro tagged with the loss. ‘Hi-Arrow scored five of its six runs in the third inning to blow the game wide open. Obetkoff and Fenrick both walked to lead off the inning, and Halisheff was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Hesketh then knocked in two runs and Lee Bolanger knocked in two more. Ron Bartsoff finished off the scoring in that inning with another hit to score Belanger. Hi-Arrow had five hits in the game, with Konkin going two for two. O'Keefe managed just four hits. O'Keefe split its two games.this week by doubling Northwest 8-4 Thursday. Bob Hutchinson took the loss while ee. Mark Joree grabbed the win. ‘he game remained scoreless until the third inning aaea O'Keefe struck for two runs. .But the. game was: _ decided in the fourth when the brewery,¢lub exploded for six “more runs. Northwest made a game of it by rebounding back for four runs in the bottom of the fifth, but it was too little too late. However, Northwest fared better in its other two games this week, dumping Kalesnikoff 12-3 after edging Thrums 6-5. , Wayne Abietkoff was credited with the win in the contest, while Gerry Trubetskoff recorded the Toronta 3, Tompa Boy 0 TRANSACTIONS ve hucicon , recall pier Gene Nalson from Salt take ity Sf the Poel loss. Northwest smashed out 12 hits, including three by Bob Hutchinson, and two each by tale Stoushnow, Wayne Tamelin and McConnell. Jim Nazaroff smacked a home run for Northwest: in the third i inning. rapped Abietkoff for nine hits in a losing the Pocitlc ‘Conat League: send pi to Salttoke. 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Dave Ward had three hits in four trips to the plate, while Gord Zeibin and Mike Schmitt each went two for four. In the 65-squeaker against Thrums Monday, Bob \Hutchinson grabbed the vielory while Ron Drazdoff suffered the loss, The game was won in the bottom of the ninth when Northwest rallied for three runs after Thrums had scored two inits half of the ninth, With one out in the bottom of the ninth, Nazaroff doubled. Sandy Booth then walked and Wayne Abietkoff — subbing for an injured Mike Nevokshonoff — singled’to load the bases. Tim Keraiff then walked to push one run across. Hutchinson reached base on an error to score another run and again load the bases. Clay Liber then: walked to push across the winning run. Abietkoff went three for four, while Keraiff and Stoushnow each had two hits in four appearances. Wayne Kuzak led Thrums with three hits in five trips to the plate and John Moran went two for five. Thrums, meanwhile, won its two other games this week with 11-7 win over Kalesnikoff and a 42 victory over Labatts. In the Kalesnikoff game, Andy Evin picked up the win, tossing a 12-hitter. Trubetskoff shared the mound duties with Roger Essery. Thrums combined for 14 hits off them. Kuzak again led Thrums with three hits, followed by Frank Loukianoff, Andy Evin, John Moran and Mike Tarasolf, each with two hits. But the Labatt’s game wasn't as ‘easy. In fact, the game remained scoreless until the fourth inning when Thrums scored three times. They added a fourth run in the sixth eine taba scored a single run in the sixth and one in the seven Christina Lake sees Games The Christina Lake Water The Competition, which Lube, Oil, Filter ce eee Litres 10/30 Oil AT OUR LOW COST $4995 By Appointment — Phone 352-2014 SHELL VUE SERVICE 301 Nelson Ave., Nelson wood and finishes at Mid- ‘way Recreation Centre. Special awards will be given after the race along with spot prizes, certificates to all ishérs and a mini t Ski Club will be hosting the Zone One 1983 Summer Games trials on English Cove on June 12. : Many 1982 B.C. Games . medal winners will be vying at the finish line. Registration before May 31 is free. The fee is $2 therafter. To register send your name, age (on race day), address and phone number to Box 468, |, B.C. for, on this years team including Stephen Zinio in juvenile boys, Don Merritt in boys, Leanne Pez and Debbie Merritt in women’s and Derek Trussler in men's, all from the Christina Lake Club. ’ will include slalom skiing, trick skiing and jumping, is open to all residents of Zone One who are over the age of 18. Registration takes place at the Christina Lake- Club site between '8 a.m. and 9 a.m. Sunday morning with - competition to start at 9 a.m. For further information contact Zone One represent- ative Jim Merritt at 868-9792 in Trail. Deans vc ee aa It has been something that has always intrigued her. ’From her nursing career which took her from England to a government hospital in Zambia for six years, in the back of her mind Veronica Pellerine has always had an interest, in electrolysis, which is the removal 'of hair growing where it shouldn't be — usually on the female face. . Like a lot of other problems; hair that won't curl, weight that won't stay off, a nose which is slightly askew, some people — particularly women — are extremely bothered by their “whiskers,” or very dark hair on their arms. Electrolysis is a means of “correcting” that little annoyance... The reason for this interest? “I got interested because I had such a bad problem myself, and it was hard to get treatment. I went to Trail and I could see there was a real need for someone like this in Castlegar.” She decided to become that someone. Soa year and a half ago Veronica went: down to Clearbrook to enroll in the Swanson School of Electroly- sis, the only “app: d” school in the pi “It’s the only school where you come out fully qualified.” Her school day began at 8 a.m. and ended at 4 p.m. and she describes the course of study as “very intense... with a lot of tests. We did a lot of physiology and the structure of the skin, the hormones and the endrocrine system.” By the second week into the course the 10 students were practicing on each other, and by the third week they were bringing in people from the outside to try out their new. skills. “You feel really slow and awkward at first. The only thing that makes it easy is practice.” After the exacting eight week course, Veronica was back in Castlegar, ready to hang out her shinglo. Unwanted hair, I learned “is a much, much more common problem than people realize. People are so self-conscious about it. They don’t like to talk about it, and they are so thankful when‘they can get treatment. It's amazing how sensitive some people are about it. I was talking to the other woman in Trail who does this’ (elec- trolyais), she continued, “and she has clients who come to her from Castlegar.and I have clients from Trail. They. don’t want to be seen going into a place like that. It’s amazing -how sensitive some ‘poeple are about this.” But on the other hand facial hair, like any other cosmetic problem “is riot a problem unless it’s a problem to that person. Some people are really amazing. They really think they havea problem and you can hardly see a hair on them.” Veronica who has been practicing electrolysis for a year now, explained the technique for me. “It's the only method of permanent hair removal.” To see first hand what the procedure ‘involves, I offered my arm as a guinea pig. Under a powerful light and magnifying glass she examined my arm for the one hair-she could remove. She turned on the “Epilator” machine and showed me the extremely fine needle, hardly more than a hair width itself, “They are so fine, these needles, and they break so easily.” She then ‘slid the small needle. down beside the * hairsvand then ‘adjusted, the timing ‘and turned on the machine for a fraction of a second. Then with her tweezers she pulled out the hair. The: root had been effectively burned away by a sharp electric current. For a few moments afterwards the area on my arm felt slightly VERONICA PELLERINE Zapping unwanted hair sore, but not unbearable. “This is it?” I asked, “It will never grow back?" “No, not quite,” she said, “it’s a course of treatment, not just one treatment.” I learned that the ease with which the hair root is destroyed depends on how it has been treated. Each time a hair is tweezed, the roots grow back slightly misshapen. The hair grows in thicker and will most likely require many treatments. _* Shaving poses another problem. It removes not only the course hair but the fine hair as well, and these grow . back thicker, and require more treatments to remove them. A person thinking of seeing an electrolysis expert should understand that, “each time you treat it with’ electrolysis you seal off a little bit more of the blood supply to the root, It takes a long time to completely seal it off. It takes about 10 treatments for the average hair,” she said. “There are lots of other methods of hair removal that claim to be permanent, like electric tweezers, but they are not,” Veronica said. She added that home electrolysis kits do work, but they are very slow. “That's fine if you just have three or four hairs to get rid of, Mine is really fast.” : The reason for heavy hair growth “could be a h ” ‘she “and ‘it’s ‘often Nereditery? ~ 8 In her treatments she is very careful when she sees an ingrown hair, which is a hair that has not broken the skin. If it looks as if it might get infected she doesn’t fool around with it, but recommends seeing a doctor. “And if a person has a mole I ask about it, have they always had it? Has it changed color or size? If they answer, “Yes,” I refer them to a doctor.” I was curious about the history of electrolysis. Who was that first person who stuck an electric wire down " FLECTROLYSIS +++ Veronica Pellerine at work removin: something that always intrigu then was offered a job nursing in the OR in & government hospital in Zambia. “That was a real shock. I went straight from a "teaching hospital to this government hospital. We had a shortage of equipment and supplies. Nothing was done properly.” She told me that the hospital had a “fee-paying” wing and a “non-fee-paying” wing.. The difference between them was like night and day. In the paying area she said there could be a3 many as beside a hair? Appi in 1875 a in the United States used an electric current to kill the root of an ingrown hair that was bothering him. Since then the equipment has undergone tremendous changes. Being an RN has helped Veronica considerably in her work. She is very conscious of cleanliness and sterili- zation, and can spot potentially dangerous situations such as infection. She was born in England and grew up in a family of four. She took nurses’ training in England and 60-70 people in each ward, “and half of them would be on the floor, mostly by choice because they had never slept , on a bed-beforel™. 0 oe. She, told me, ‘chat she ‘had ‘spent a lot of time in the . hospital asa patient with all sorts of tropical ailments from malaria to dysentery. “So I knew what it was like to be a patient there.” She married in Zambia and her oldest: children, Chris, 15, and Nicola, 18, were born there. After . Veronica went back to England with her children, but she : woman.” She’s a firm believer-in putting her family first. jhair. Electrolysis “has been " her. ashort time in the U.S. the family moved to B.C. “When I arrived in Canada I was expecting Peter and I had the mumps, I was a real sight. ['ll never forget that!" After her husband was killed in a helicopter crash, missed this country. “I really like Canada. I had a lot of friends here, 201 cam back.” Two and a half years ago she married local teacher Elmer Pellerine. Her job which only takes two days a week is all that Veronica really wants right now. Although she loves her work, she confided to me that she's “really not a careet Some of the “home” things she enjoys are sewing and interior decorating. She and Elmer are currently building a home, and it’s Veronica's job to figure out what furnishings and colors go with each other. In the winter she skiis and in the summer she hikes and plays tennis. There's gold in gravel EDMONTON (CP) — Frank Muran has made more than $1 million in the last two years’ recovering gold from gravel pits in the Edmonton area. 5 The Alberta government hasn't done badly off Muran’s enterprise either: They've collected about $115,000 in royalties, Muran, a retired Imperial Oil executive, set up a com- pany called Murax Industries Ltd. to wash gold at several gravel pits in the area. He has contracts to re- cover the gold during the normal gravel sorting opera- tions, which involve washing hundreds of thousands. of tonnes of the stulf. Carpet remnants are placed in the gravel washing flumes'to recover the heavy gold-bearing “black sand.” Muran periodically collects the carpets, washes out the: gold, and purifies it. Harry Irving, president of Alberta Concrete Products, said Murax last year recov- ered about 200 troy ounces of 92-per-cent pure gold from the company’s pit at Ville- neuve, northwest of Edmon- ton. KEEP GOLD Ralph Saunders, general manager of Steele Brothers Canada Ltd., said Murax re- covered 200 to 800 ounces of - gold from their pits on the North Saskatchewan River, west of Edmonton. While it’s a lucrative by- product, Saunders said it wouldn't be worth it for the company to just wash the gravel for its gold. “You have to wash 6,000 tonnes of gravel to get one ounce of gold,” Saunders stat gee said. “It's only because we're in the gravel business that CLOSE-UP... . Even the common dandelion weed has some sense of artistry about it we recover any gold at all.” when viewed close-up. Montreal's Chinatown full of forgotten widows for the $500 head tax levied in 1903 by the federal once a community of Chinese “bachelors” eking out a better life ina strange land, has evolved into a subculture of forgotten widows. The women — about 300 of them — live in oft: d to restrict Chinese immigration. Most Chinese immigrants — either because of discrim- ination or a lack of skills since many were illiterate — went into laundry work at the turn of the century and later turned to the said Chan. rooming houses above shops and restaurants in a district al- ready largely eaten away by the construction of Complexe Guy Favreau, a massive office development funded by the federal government. Widows of the men who came earlier this century to seck prosperity in this land — they often called it the Golden Mountain — the women toiled long hours in restaurants and laundries to send money back to their families in China. The women came after their men, not out of an emotional bond but more because of “a devotion to a tradition of” fulfilling a marital commitment,” says Kwok OPERATED LAUNDRIES “At one time, there were 700 hand laundries in the city operated by the Chinese in Montreal,” he said, adding they required little capital and only hard labor. Some men made enough money and eventually returned to China. Others lived out lonely lives in Chinatown from which stories of p: bling and opium. dens. The men could not bring their wives and families to Canada because of the Chinese Immigration Act of 1923, which Chinese i until 1947 when the ‘The widows are part of the influx of Chinese immigrants who came to Canada between 1950 and 1960’ Chan, a C dia Uni it Chan has drawn a portrait of the widows, mostly be- tween the ages of 75 and 96, from interviews with them in his native Cantonese and Toyshanese dialects as part of a study on the effects of ethnicity on aging. The study focuses on the widows’ level of physical and mental health and why the women, many of whom have families in the suburbs, opt.to live away from them in ften-dil d in Chi SOUGHT BETTER LIFE- Most of the women had arranged marriages at the age of 15 or 16. Because life was hard in China’s Guangdong province where famine was common, many men, even after only a year or two of marriage, opted to seek a better life elsewhere. “One woman told me that a few days prior to the departure of her husband, there was no real communication, no conversation as to when the man was coming back,” Chan said in an interview. ' "She didn’t even ask questions. At the atime. there was a history of Chinese men going d the fact act was repealed. The widows, said Chan, are part of the influx of Chinese immigrants who came to Canada between 1950 and 1960 to join the men who came to the country earlier. “You're also talking of men getting very old and getting very sick,” said Chan. “The men wonder if they are going to die all alone. They've saved a bit of money. That's the time they write home and send for their wives and children.” The women came out of devotion to a tradition and not out of romantic love because there was no chance for that kind of sentiment to nourish in the first place, said Chan. DEVELOPED RESILIENCE His study indicates the widows seem to be in good mental arid physical health and are even faring better than ~ the average Canadian of the same age. “They have over the years developed what I call a resilient personality because they have gone through hard times. “Loneliness is not something new to them. Marital lone- liness happened the day the men took off from the house. Hard work is something they are used to from working in the fields prior to coming to Canada and working in restaurants as dishwashers.” 7 . Chan said many of the widows have at some point lived with t their children in the suburbs, but felt a “physical and that once this man took off from the door and went into the boat, it could be 80 or 40 years, or even never, that she would see this man again.” The women stayed in China — probably with one or two children to support and sometimes her and her husband's parents as well. Most either worked in the paddy fields or sold their labor to the landowner. The men often borrowed the money to leave from not only for the trip to Canada but also isolation” because they had little in common with their ies and couldn't with their grandchildren. “The logical move is to go to where there is a peer group,” said Chan, “It is within that little Chinatown district that there is the apparatus or support system to develop an old-age sub-culture. “Tho widows like to retain their autonomy . . . They have never been dependent on anybody. And they don't want to reverse the cycle even if they are old.”