Joly 5-7, 1984 er> Meet Miss Dominion of Canada at? Tuesday, July 3 at 2:30 p.m. > ~ Chahko-Mika Mall Located in Nelson on Beautiful Kootenay Lake Wednesday, July 4c at 1:15 p.m. Open to’? p.m. Thursday & Friday Welcome Curlers & Visitors “Your West Kootenay Swimming Pool & Spa Contre” 14’x24’ Above Ground Pool (With 0 5 deep ond) a 695 Chohko-Mike Mall, Nelson Attend the Nelson MID-SUMMER BONSPIEL PARADE Wednesday, July 4 starting at 6 p.m. 3 Miles of Continuous Parade Pitt's Special Aerobatic Display Visible over whole City of Nelson starting at 6 p.m. Complete program over car radios and on the acameael system on Baker Street. Calgary Army Band — Shrine Band & Floats Vintage Cars on Display on Baker St. Q A Warm Nelson Welcome TO CURLERS & _ PARADE VISITORS From your friendly Chrysler Dealer HOME OF: Magic Wagon New Yorkers K-Cars LeBaron Laser Chargers an “The World's Toughest Pick-ups” CITY AUTO 903 Baker St., Nelson Of. 5413 352-5346 Trodi # Por in the | | Parade MOUNTED MEMBERS or NELSON'S POLICE FORCE The Four Thousand Members of the Nelson & District Credit Union Welcome ALL CURLERS & Visitors To the 40th Annual Mid-Summer Bonspiel & Parade Open Saturdays for Your Convenience NELSON & DISTRICT 501 Vernon Street Nelson, 8.C. CREDIT UNION Ph. 362-7207 * Steve Armitage HONORARY PARADE MARSHALL Aerobatics Unlimited FANTASTIC AIRSHOW WILL THRILL ALL WHO ATTEND THE PARADE Whalley Legion Jr. Band: Winners of Over 200 Awards Kootenay Kilties Pipe Band — City of Netson Band PARADE ROUTE: Starts on Lakeside Drive beside the airport. Continues along Lakeside Drive through Chohko-Mika Mall. Turns out of Mall into Front Street and travels towards Nelson Avenue. Turns right on Nelson Ave. to High Street along High Street to Baker Street Parade goes length of Baker Street and then turns to Vernon Street and travels length of Vernon Street, turning down to Front Street and along Front Street to Lakeside Drive and returning to its originating position ‘Welcome All Curlers and Parade Visitors! We are located on Nelson's Main Street Please, ie | in and look over our full selection of Men's & Ladies Summer Footwear Thunderbird Service with know-how makes the difference! Welcome Bonspielers & Visitors Thunderbird Ymir Road, Nelson, B.C. Ph. 354-4491 would like to personally invite you on behol of the Nelson ond District Chomber of Commerce and the City of Nelson, to attend the 1984 Mid-Summer Bonspiel Parade. Our up-coming parade’s theme is “Heritoge” with Nelson being the Heritage Capita! of B.C. Our 1964 parade is betieved to be one of the largest of its kind in the 8.C. interior. The route will be three (3) miles long winding through ovr weecuntel city _ our quest celebrity Honorary Perode marshall leading the way. This parade is held in conjunction with mid. 400-500 curlers from all over North America Participate in the porade in the show block top ot our municipal Welcome Curlers & Visitors Enjoy the Parade and Your Visit to Nelson See our selection of Men's & Ladies Active Sportswear tor Summer Comfort. G phhey MEN'S WEAR wee ©: of architecture Come join us on July 4, 1984 tor our Mid-Summer Bonspiel Parade. We will be looking forward to seeing you BOS ALLEN, BONSPIEL PARADE CHAIRMAN GOOD QUALITY —SCANADIAN-MADE SOUVENIRS ® Silver Spoons © © Pewter Spoons ¢ © Jade Figurines ® Dolls © © Slippers ¢ © Silk Scarves © * Tea Towels © © Wall Hangings © * British Columbia Totem Pole Boxes & Spoons ® Sonjass i. 368-5115 446 Baker Strest, Nelson & Wenete Plaze, Trefl Overwaitea “The More You Know About Prices . The Better We Look” — The BULK FOOD Store — Welcome Curlers & Visitors ta the Midsummer Bonspiel Parade We offer sincere congratulations toot associated je m she Bonspiel and Weare cengtanen thet that all visitors will enjoy their time in Nelson. YOUR FORD & MERCURY DEALER TALL SHIPS . . . To help mark the 450th anniversary of French explorer Jacques Cartier's arrival in the New World tall ships from around the globe are visiting . ., perhaps ‘the most famous voyage in Capadian history ie Quebec. The ships, including Canada’s majestic Bluenose I! (above) arrived earlier this week and held their sail-past at Quebec City on Satyrday. Jacques Cartier: his search for the Strait of Belle Isle and reached the interior of North America. Jacques Cartier, the French navigator on a mission of exploration for King Frasicis I of France, beheld a strange new world beyond the fogs of Newfoundland. The ships weighed anchor in Chaleur Bay in a gulf later named by Set ero the pf the Ganpe Poni nd Carter. claimed possession of the land in the name of the king of France. ‘The event marked the beginning of a colony called New France and later a country called Canada. Cartier was the first European to reach the inland of the forbidding northern shores of the continent since the Vikings centuries before. before. The Indians, who had not seen a white man in historic times nor a seafaring vessel but perceived quickly the significance of Cartier's symbolic act, did not take the apparent invasion sitting down. A rumble of discontent ran through the group of semi-naked natives. Sensing trouble, Cartier pointed to the heavens above, furiously explaining in sign tanguage that his action was the will of the white man's god. For good measure, Cartier chanted the names of the Christian Holy Trinity. The Indians gave his explanation the benefit of doubt and dispersed, but cohtinued to watch the strange goings-on from behind the trees at a safe distance. At this point Cartier, whose objective was to find a Saguenay Dynastic rivalries. and the demands of the mercantile trade spurred the interest im faraway lands. As a major power in Europe, France not ignore the prospect of finding a wealth in rare and acquisition of new lands. The stage for exploration in America was set when King Francis I of France,.in rivalry with King Henry VIII of England and King Charles“Of Spain, engaged in 1524 an Italign navigator named-Giovanni de Vefrazano to establish a French claim-on the new continent. Verrazand -héil “just returned from the Spanish territories in South Ameriea-with gold and silver, but his voyage to the northern latitudes failed to produce the riches of Cathay. In 1534, King Francis sent Jacques Cartier, an experi. enced sea captain from St. Malo in Brettany, to carry out the policy of mnbeireg the mercantile capital and expansion of overseas trade. Cartier’s first encounter with the new land did not hold out much promise of duplicating the easy success of the Spaniards. Upon reaching the coast of Labrador he and his seamen were greeted by a stomy and barren landscape and a forbidding climate, all of whieh made Cartier remark in his journal: “The land should not be called the New Land, being composed of stones and horrible rugged rocks in fact, I am rather inclined to believe that this was the land God gave to Cain.” His spirits rose, however, when past the fogs of Newfoundland, they entered Chaleur Bay sweltering in summer heat and full of vegetation. According to legend, the bay, which was known to early explorers as Baye des Espagnols, was visited before Cartier @iscover.the mythical kingdom of us also that he had visited another region where the people, located on the north shore of the Saguenay River. On this second voyage Cartier penetrated further the gulf and river of St. Lawrence which he had reached on the feast day of a saint by that name popular in his native Brettany. The kingdom, he was informed, was to be found inland to the northwest up the great St. Lawrence on which river two countries, Canada and Hochelaga, were located. Cartier's preoccupation with the yellow metal comes to the fore in his obsession with the kingdom of Saguenay of which existence Taignoagny and Dom Agaya so convincingly e. The subsequent pursuit of the kingdom persistently ran into difficulties, but while the dream lasted it was not without unexpected turns of events and promising developments. During the second visit Cartier met chief Donnacona of the village Stadacona, later Quebec. The old chief was not only of the same Iroquois-Huron tribe as ‘The suggestion is that the name Canada stands for absence of gold’ Taignoagny and Dom Agaya whom Cartier met at Gaspe; he turned out to be the boy's father Stadacona was their native village, but in summer they travelled to the shores of the Gulf for the hunting season. When Chief Donnacona confirmed the stories of the mythical kingdom, Cartier spared no effort in the quest for gold. It seems that the more Cartier and his men pressed for information, the more they heard what the natives thought the strangers wanted to hear. The Saguenay legend was also supported by Indians of a different tribe further inland “They gave us to understand,” Cartier recorded in his journal, “that in that country the hatives go clothed and dressed in woolens like ourselves; that there are many towns and tribes composed of honest folk who possess great stores of gold and copper.” Although his Indian friends were forthcoming with information and vivid descriptions of a place “rich and wealthy in precious stones,” Cartier encountered solid opposition to his plan of visiting there. Not only did his two Indian guides, Taignoagny and Dom Agaya, adamantly refuse to accompany him on the journey up river, they also tried to prevent him from going to Hochelaga on the present-day Montreal island where he was hoping to get help in finding the kingdom. Cartier noted that his young friends were “altogether changed in their attitude and goodwill.” Even presents and bribes were to no avail. To the captain's promise “that they would merely go and see Hochelaga and return,” Taignoagny replied that “under no circumstances would he go.” His brother, Do 1 Agaya, avoided the French explorer altogether. In spite of Cartier's tireless efforts, the Indian opposition to the scheme grew and su did mistrust and suspicion on both sides. “They devised a great ruse to preveut us from going to Hochelaga,” Cartier complained in his journal At pains to trick the Europeans into accepting the Indian view in the matter, the natives craftily utilized elements of the white folks’ religion and combined them with their own beliefs and practices, as this passage from Cartier's journal illustrates: “They dressed up three Indians as devils, arraying themselves in black and white dog skins, with horns as long as one’s arms and their faces colored as black as coal ‘ then, Taignoagny and Dom Agaya came out of the woods, walking in our direction, with their hands joined, and their caps under their arms and Taignoagny began to speak and repeated three times ‘Jesus’, ‘Jesus’, ‘Jesus’, lifting his eyes towards heaven. Then Dom Agaya called out ‘Jesus’, *Maria’, ‘Jacques Cartier’, looking up to heaven.” ‘The strange ceremony, complete with an unholy trinity, is uncannily reminiscent of the occasion when Cartier had erected the cross at Gaspe. It was Cartier's persistence that pushed him with a handful of sailors on the planned journey to Saguenay. At the palisaded village of Hechelaga, now Montreal, they were advised to go by way of the Ottawa River. They were to find the kingdom of Saguenay where the river empties into the St. Lawrence at the end of the island on which Hochelaga stood. Cartier followed the advice but his advance was halted by the Lachine Rapids. The summer was over and he had to return home before the stormy weather. In view of the impasses, and lacking any tangible evidenee of the famed riches ef the kingdom, Cartier decided on a rather drastic measure. He relates the measure in his journal, referring to himself in the third person: “The Captain had quite made up his mind to take Chief Donnacona to France, that he might tell to the King all he had seen in the west of the wonders of the world; for he assured us that he had been to the land of Saguenay ‘where there were immense quantities of gold, rubies and other rich things, and that the men there are white as in France and go clothed in woolens.” Elaborate and desperate attempts, dictated by the lateness of the, season, were made to lure the unsuspecting chief to visit the ship. Once on board, the chief found himself Wo anus, never eat or digest, but simply make water through the penis... . and other marvels too long to relate.” There is nothing in Cartier’s account to suggest that even this bizarre story was received with a grain of salt. On the contrary, summing up the passage, the French explorer wrote: "This chief is an old man who has never ceased travelling about the country by river, stream and trail ever since his earliest recollection.” It appears that Cartier was paid back in the coin of his own trickery and deception which he thought had so cleverly turned his Indian hosts to his way of thinking. Or perhaps the old man enjoyed the attention he received from the white folk: his arrival at the the French court and his i regi g the of brought him a change of status from village chief to “king of Canada.” In any event, in Donnacona Cartier found a worthy opponess with whom to match wits. d with so imp’ , King Francis agreed to dispatch a colonizing expedition in full force. He declared that possession — not discovery alone — determined validity of territorial claims. The king put Sir Roberval, a nobleman unlike Cartier, in charge of the expedition and appointed him viceroy of Canada. Cartier remained captain and received a larger fleet of ships to command. In the spring of 1541, before Sir Roberval could obtain financing for the trip, Cartier sailed on his third and final voyage to New France. Spurred by the fantastic tales of rare metals, a’ kind of mining fever characterized the enterprise. Upon arriving in Canada, Cartier made another visit to Hochelaga in an attempt to find the kingdom of Saguenay Accompanied by a chosen party of crewmen, he had gotten as far as the second rapid on the Ottawa, where he was informed by the Indians that “the river was not navigable to go to Saguenay.” The Frenchmen wintered near Stadacona, ill-prepared to endure the harshness of a Canadian winter. The snow, which seemed to come down in great white piles night and day, levelled the horizon. The prospects of finding gold appeared as bleak as the landscape. The supplies ran low and death from scurvy took its toll. Distrust and suspicion towards the natives turned to fear. There was a strong sense of being at the mercy of not only the natural elements, but also these “savage”, heathen souls who seemed to throw off the ravages of scurry as if by magic. Again, using deception, the captain d to conceal the fact that his crew was decimated by the terrible disease. At all times he had the less weaker @# his men take ‘Cartier's preoccupation with the yellow metal comes to the fore in his obsession with the kingdom of Saguenay’ turns creating sounds to make it appear that the crew was busy at work below deck. Apparently, the ever-watchful natives were not easily fooled because Cartier was given a herbal miracle cure that helped put the sick men baeek on their feet. Only once hopes rose high when, while building the Charlesbourg Royal settlment, Cartier’s men found gold and sparkling stones. Flakes of gold were discovered on the banks the St. Lawrence, along with iron deposits. Of the sparkling stones, Cartier wrote: “We found a good store of stones, which we esteemed to be Diamants.” Cartier became so anxious to deliver the promised samples of precious metals to the king that“he had them packed in barrels for protection and sent them to France on two of his ships. But there were no more trips to the lands of Saguenay An outbreak of hostilities between the Indians and the Europeans brought about a sudden change of plans. Cartier sailed for France in great haste, not stopping even to meet Sir Roberval who was just approaching the coasts of New France. He was never to return to the distant blue shorelines of the vast land he claimed for France. On his return, Cartier learned that the metals which had stirred so much excitement and spurious hope were of little value. The gold was genuine but its limited deposits ruled out any ie mining and pi si The diamonds turned out to be cofhmon rock crystals, mere quartz. Cartier's mistake became the stuff of international folklore; it gave rise to the still popular saying: “false as a diamond from Canada.” “The rest is wanting,” was the last entry in Cartier’s journal. Sir Roberval's journal also ended suddenly with an entry of a planned visit to the kingdom of Saguenay, also on the verge of mystery When Samuel Champlain, the founder of New France as a colony, followed in Cartier’s steps almost a century later, he, too, was intrigued by the Saguenay legend. He, too, went to the Mofitreal island where the palisaded village of Hochelaga used to stand, according to Cartier’s account, but — nothing at all. There was no trace of either Stadi The of sailing away to a strange land across an body of water and a few weeks later landing on an unknown shore. Chief Donnacona, for his part, was clearly given to spinning tall stories. After relating the chiefs report of the mythieal land, Cartier added in the next sentence: “He told forever | in the imaginary realm. Like the northwest passage to China, the search for the kingdom ended in failure. But after Cartier, the name Canada was put permanently on the maps, even though it stood only for an Indian village Driving in Hawaii could be costly HONOLULU (AP) — In an Almost 80 per cent of the state's residents live on the island of Oahu, where Hon- olulu is located. The island covers 1,582 square kilom- etres. Automatic sensing devices would be placed in cars, and motorists would be billed each month for the number of consylting firm. The study suggested charge of 10 cents a mile (1.6 kilometres} ). It listed other alternatives, imeluding a major expansion of the city’s bus fleet and