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His star, the 1,884th on the Walk,
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By KATHY BELL
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Pierre Berton has written a book that has little
to do with Canadians, but everything to do with the
shape of Canada today.

The Arctic Grail is crammed with tales about
the ineptitude of glory-seeking explorers — mostly
British and American — in their insatiable quest for
the Northwest Passage and the North Pole.

Berton, the country’s best-known popular
historian, documents the exploration from 1818 to
1909 of what is now Canada’s North. Some details are
tiresome. In fact, by Berton’s own admission,
“You've read one trek across. the ice, you've read
them all.”

The intrigue lies in the characters and their
foibles.

By the 19th century, the British knew the
Northwest Passage through the Arctic would never
be a viable trading route to the Pacific regions. But a
country at peace had to find something for its
military men to do.

“After the Napoleonic War there was no other
way for them to get to the top,” Berton said in an
interview in Edmonton.

CLOSE TO GOD

The promise of money and fame initially lured
the explorers, but the icy magic of the North kept
them coming back for more.

“They saw this as getting closer to something
like God,” Berton said.

The best known of these explorers is John
Franklin, who set out in 1845 with two ships and 129
men. All were lost.

Like most writers, Berton paints Franklin as a
bungler. On a journey some 20 years earlier Franklin
had come within a hair's breadth of death. But the
admiralty put the popuolar aging hero in charge of
two ships.

“He was a nice guy, but he just shouldn't have
ever gone to the Arctic,” says Berton, who dismisses
a recent theory that lead poisoning was a major
factor in the expedition’s failure.

Owen Beattie, a University of Alberta anthrop
ologist, has examined the well-preserved bodies of
three Franklin crewmen exhumed from the
permafrost. He suggests the men ingested life.
threatening levels of lead through food packed in
poorly soldered tins.

SCURVY FACTOR

Berton believes the effects of scurvy were just
as mentally and physically debilitating, and that the
lead was a minor factor.

In fact, he argues that neither disease caused
the dying men to drag heavy sleds of unnecessary
goods — di » books, silverware and button polish
— as they abandoned their ice-locked ships.

“It was because they thought they had to have
the stuff,” he said.

“People think it is a sign of madness today, but it
was a sign of normalcy in 1847. They were typical
mid-century Englishmen. This had nothing to do
with being crazy from either lead poisoning or
seurvy in my opinion. It had everything to do with
being Englishmen.”

The sad portrait of the British is a. prevailing
theme of the book. But the ¢ostly and stumbling
search for the passage and for Franklin — who
Berton says is famous only because he died — laid
the groundwork for Canada’s claim to the Arctic.

“If Franklin hadn't been lost, we would not have
had the exploration that took place.”

LIKES INUIT

The Inuit are clearly among the author's
favorites. He portrays them as a co-operative and
practical people, refreshing when compared with the
egotistic explorers.

The stubborn British refused to adopt the ways
that allowed the Inuit to survive in the unforgiving
North.

They wore regular uniforms, used ships too
massive for the icy waters, wouldn't stoop to eating
whale blubber to ward off scurvy; and for years
didn't learn to use dog sleds.

One of the book's best yarns describes the
rivalry between Frederick Cook and Robert Peary,
two Americans who both claimed to reach the North
Pole first.

Cook was a likable, seemingly naive man who
fell from grace when his contradictory story about
reaching the Pole fell apart under scrutiny.

“I've met Cooks all over the world,” said
Berton. “They're always cheerful, always believable,
aMays sincere. They half-believe what they're
telling you.”

Peary, one of the most concerted explorers, was
credited with the conquest. But the National
Geographic Society, which supported his claim after
a cursory examination of his records has recently
admitted he too failed to reach the Pole.

There are few heroes in The Arctic Grail, but
there are many fascinating losers. The cast of
characters carries the book, which is what Berton
intended.

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of shyness.

Gibson was here to publicize his
latest Warner Bros. film, Tequila
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geles but on the other side of the law.

“Things don't quite match up and
that's what appealed to me about the
script,” said Gibson. “Here's a man
who has a very illicit lifestyle and has
had an unsavory career. Yet he
always tells the truth and deals
honorably with people. That makes
an interesting combination.”

In Tequila Sunrise, Gibson is at
odds with a high school friend, played
by Russell, who is a narcoties cop.
Pfeiffer plays the beauty caught be-
tween them. The writer is Robert
Towne, best known for his China.
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“The script just lobbed into my
mailbox one day,” Gibson said of his
latest effort. “It was one of those
scripts that you just kept turning the
pages; you didn't know why. It
demanded a second read. I liked it.

SCRIPT WORKS

“Towne knows the meaning of the
word economy. He can write scenes
that say a lot but don’t have any
words. In the script there's a book of
matches and an ash try that say a lot.
No words needed.”

Gibson spent his first 12 years in
Peekskill and Mount Vernon, N.Y.
and the rest of his boyhood in Syd-
ney. His mother was Australian, his
father an American who decided to
emigrate with his 10 children so the
older sons would not be drafted
during the Vietnam War.

Taunted because of his Yankee
accent, Gibson's ruggedness allowed
him to integrate. He was going to be
a chef or a journalist until his sister
submitted him for a drama institute
at the University of New South
Wales. He appeared in stage plays
and a cheapie flick, Summer City,
that attracted the eye of director
George Miller. The result was the
star-making Road Warrior.

Gibson filmed two sequels and also
co-starred in the acclaimed World
War I film, Gallipoli, and Peter
Weir's The Year of Living Danger-
ously. Some of his American-made
movies have been less successful:
The Bounty, The River, Mrs. Soffel.

Gibson lives in Australia with his
wife, Robyn, and four young chil-
dren, who all usually travel with him.

“I think travel is good for young
kids,” he said. “It’s a good education
for them, as good as they'll get
sitting in one place. They're still little
Aussies, but I think they benefit
from being exposed to different cul
tural elements, attitudes and expres-
sions. They still speak Australian,
though they get into a Southern
California twang when they're here.
But I beat it out of them.”

Munday
reveals

character

It is in times of great stress, danger of the threat
of immenent death that people reveal their true
character.

I received a letter recently from John Munday,
former Caastlegar teacher, missionary, and friend to
many whose earlier letters on his experiences with
his‘beloved adopted family in Equador have been a
regular feature in this column.

He was writing from Victoria at the home of his
sister Joy Milroy while waiting for major heart
Surgery the next week. Painfully weak and ill,
suffering from extreme home sickness and culture
shock after 30 years in South America, he wrote the
following letter to his friends:

Dear Jack and Bunny,

Nov. 11, Remembrance Day. Red plastic poppies
pinned against Victoria's relentless winds. Low grey
clouds shroud out the sun. It's more comfortable
inside to travel on memories, Naturally, mine head
south almost constantly. To 50 young people still
living at Diospaj Nan Christian Center and to the
dozen or more “graduates.”

They're all in my prayers every single day. Each
in his own way is more than a name. He is a unique
personality deeply loved by God and uniquely
important to Him. I am discovering that my love for
them and their importance to me has not changed
with thousands of miles and almost two months
between us. I know that the present residents of my
Quito home are well cared for and I thank Lloyd and
Linda Rogers and our Ecuadarian staff for their help
and hard work. Again I ask you to pray for each one,
‘though you'll pull blanks on most and perhaps all of
their faces.

My time of readjustment toa culture that is
flying high in the hyper-efficient technological age

It's the old-kerataconus that has invaded my
latest graft and made it so uneven it does not serve
for seeing at any distance — far or near. Sometime in
the future, perhaps, I may attempt another
transplant. Meanwhile my right side is forced to
walk by faith.

My heart surgeon instills complete confidence,
and with his team of experts will be replacing as
many of my plugged-up arteries as my legs will
permit. Any donor legs available? the obtaining of a
normal flow of blood throughout the body, including
my ice-cold feet and ears made deaf through nerve

ings withering from lack of nutrition, may affect
positively those two extremities. I'll let you know
after surgery.

Right now I have neither energy nor desire to
find out how many letters I'm still owing. But they
are many. This is an effort to lower the boom on that
albatross and from then on keep forever up-to-date.
My letters to Ecuador have been for the most part
individually written in Spanish. My English-speaking
friends have to do with a photo copy and an
appropriate P.S. ...

John Charters

Reflections
and
recollections

Thank you for taking time to read all this. But
more, I thank you for praying for those my
spiritually adoptive sons. They are, more
importantly, sons of the Living God and members of
His family, having received His Son by faith many
years ago. May they learn — may J learn — to rest

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has been difficult. It has, of course, been wonderful
to re-acquaint myself with family and friends of ‘way
back.

My sister Joy and family have taken me in
where I have almost too much time to rest and eat
and read and figure out how to answer the question:
“Is it nice to be back?” Many faithful friends have
visited, have invited me to visit them, have phoned,
have written.

The doctors have helped me schedule my

ly fr life by intments,
check-ups and the like almost weekly. And things
like “computer virus,” “cult crimes,” consumer
fixation, credit buying, calculation of the poverty
level (roughly what a South American president
earns!), christianity with a small “c,” camel-swallow.
ing (or gnat-straining), controls and common
markets, I'm beginning to understand, but only as I
understood chemistry 40 years ago and flunked! .. .

My own desire and longing to “know God”
continues, but worry and concern are knit into the
family fabric. I'm still an expert at that anda
stumbling novice where things like faith and trust
are concerned. é

This week the contact lens specialist tried to fit
me with a contact lens, a second-to-last-ditch effort
by my eye doctor to restore sight to my practically
sightless right eye. The lens got lost and felt as
though it had slipped right into my head. The contact
lens man suggested we reach through my ear for it.

I suggested blowing my nose. In desperation the
poor man honed my eye doctor who later froze the
eye, found the lens, and left me patched for a day so

in Him and to accept themselves as He
has accepted them, lift their heads high and live
CARE-free lives as children of the King of Kings.

Thank you for sharing burdens, and much love
from all of us,

John Munday and Family

P.S. How wonderful to chat with you on the
phone. Thank you for calling. Your package
containing the two books Iordered, together with
your ing iT letter, ur 5
news, both good and sad, and the copy of the poem
quoted by King George V1 in 1939, the verse that
expresses what the heart so often feels. . . all arrived
today and all are appreciated so very much.

I do hope you are both feeling better soon.

Any minute I may know if Mrs. X's blood type
has been obtained. If it has not, I'm to rush to the
hospital (Jubilee) in a few minutes to be operated on
tomorrow. (It would appear that such will not be the
case as there are no beds available, I've just
discovered, so I wait until (and I hope it's no later)
Nov. 24. All the very best, and God bless you.

I last phoned Joy on Sunday evening (Dec. 4)
and found that John had returned from hospital only
a couple of hours before. He sounded weak but
chirrupy. He said that he was walking around, eating
well (had in fact missed only one meal — breakfast
before surgery) and was suffering little of the pain
usually associated with such operations.

His sense of the ridiculous was unimpaired and
while he expressed some disappointment that his
friends had not offered a spare leg or the heart parts,
he wished to thank everyone for their concern and
warm greetings.

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“Parents Helping Parents support
group is important to me... from the
support that I receive from other
parents in the same situation,” a
news release from the West Koot.
enay Infant Development Program
quotes one parent as saying.

“You know that you can talk
openly and frankly and that they
really understand what you are
saying,” the parent says. “It is so
refreshing to have some place to
meet with other familes and be able
to share your joy and ‘sorrows
completely.”

PHP is also a good source of infor.
mation, the release adds. Each month
there is a topic of interest to all
parents of handicgpped children.
Parents learn about new programs or
devices that are available for their
children and the group provides up-
dates on the medical and psycholo-
gical fields and informs parents of
workshops, government assistance
and funding that’s available and
helps plan for the children’s future.

Parents are also able to share with
each other the knowledge of different
“tricks” they've tried and the differ-
ent doctors and organizations which
have helped their families.

The Parents Helping Parents sup-
port group meets the third Friday of
every month from 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. at
Hobbit Hill Children’s Centre in
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