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March 1, 1995

THIS WEEKEND

Weaving course planned

Submitted

A two-weekend course in
handweaving will be held this
Saturday and Sunday and March
11 and 12 at Castlegar’s Doukho-
bor Museum. The course is
geared toa level of skills from /
beginner to intermediate. \

Peippi Bos, a well-known
Kootenay weaver, and teacher
will instruct. Courses run from
9:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. each day.
There is a fee plus a materials*
fee. Table looms are available.

This intensive course will
provide the prospective
handweaver with a solid

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groundwork of basic weaving
knowledge and experience

The Selkirk Guild is presently
working very hard to help the
Prince George weavers host the
Association of Northwest
Weavers’ Guilds Conference
there next July.

Two Selkirk members, Mable
Verigin (Doukhobor textile spe
cialist), and Kathy Knight (bas
ketry. expert), will be instructors
at this international conference
The Selkirk Weavers will orga-
nize and produce the handspin-
ning components of this event

A November raffle of a basket
of handwoven itemsfor a picnic
for two was won by Renata Wild-

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Dancing Around
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Saturday, March 11th

2:00 pm or 7:00 pm

Castlegar Community Complex
Guest Skater: Johnnie Bevan
ickets: Adult/Teen $4
Children 6 - 12 $2

FREE

ing of Salmo, The guild thanks
all supporters who purchased
tickets. Proceeds from this sale
help maintain the weaving room
at the Doukhobor Museum,
across from Castlegar's airport.

The Selkirk Weavers Guild
meets on the third Wednesday of
each month. Show and Tell
begins at 9:30 a.m., followed by a
business meeting and informal
instruction session,

Interested members of the pub-
lic are welcome.

Print exhibit
in Grand Forks

Two Vancouver printmakers,
Doug Biden and Heather Aston,
are featured at the Grand Forks
Ant Gallery through April 1

Biden says: “Some. artists define
themselves now as ‘cultural work-
ers’, institutionally informed, politi-
cally activated whose aim is toward
social reform: Overt reliance on
academia and theoretical trends
appear limited to elitist arguments
and dismissive as anti-visual.

“In my opinion this diverts the
art maker and viewer from-what
exists at the core of individual
experience, whose content often
lies in the heart, instinct and soul.”

The imagery in Aston's series
of richly-colored and painted
monotypes is reminiscent of
forests and fishing, intertwined
with the terrain of her own gar-
den, and memories of growing
up and exploring the West Coast
with family and friends

Aston comments: “They are
abstract expressions that depict
both a intimate relationship with
our landscape and my personal
experience within it.”

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THANK YOU *

The Castlegar
Multicultural Society
wishes to
thank everyone

items for our

One of the National Exhibition Centre’s new exhibits is called Magic Mirrors, and
it reflects premier West Kootenay artisanship as well as light. One item of note is
the Dragon Mirror (above) by Andrew Roney, of Salmo.

SUN STAFF PHOTO /Jeff Gabert

Submitted

The Selkirk College Profes-
sional Music Program will pre-
sent internationally-renowned
jazz composer/trumpeter Kenny
Wheeler in concert tonight at
Studio 80 in Nelson.

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Born in St. Catherines, Ont.,
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an outlet when he moved to Lon-
don, England in the early ‘50s
As a member of John
Dankworth’s big band, he devel-
oped into a strong improvisor.

The '60s saw him explore
more extended styles including
free and atonal jazz. His work
with Anthony Braxton and Dave
Holland are landmarks for mod-
em trumpet playing.

The ‘70 and ‘80s saw a series
of recordings on the German
ECM label that feature Kenny
Wheeler as both a composer and
improviser,

They include groupings with
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Wheeler will be accompanied
by Selkirk College faculty mem-
bers Mark Spielman on bass,
Filles Parenteau on keyboards,
Paul Landsberg and Cliff Maddix
on guitars, Steven Parish on
drums, Cheryl Hodge (voice) and
Darcy Hepner on saxophone.

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educational process.

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will go towards a student schol-
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Wednesday, March 1, 1995

Arctic fever, Arctic death |:

What a strange feeling RCMP
Inspector Trundle must have had
as he stood in an isolated cabin
on the Thelon River in the North-
west Territories in 1928 and
viewed the skeletal remains of
three adventurers who had died
of starvation!

As he and his men sifted
through the cabin, how amazed
he must have been to find a note
which \ simply Stated
WHO. LOOK IN
STOVE,

And then to find amongst the
ashes in the stove a year-long
journal and letters written by one
of the men up to the very day he
died. It. was easy, then, for
Inspector Trundle of the Great
Slave L. ke subdivision to piece
together what happened and write
his report. He simply had to use
information from this young dead
man’s diary.

I've always been fascinated by
the exploits of explorers and
adventurers into remote regions
of the world. So when Canadian
novelist M. T. Kelly mentioned
he had a book forthcoming about
the Thelon River tragedy, I decjd-
ed to search for some of the earli-
er books featuring this episode
from 1926-27.

At Selkirk College, I found
The Legend of John Hornby
(1962). This book represents
many years of research by schol-
ar George Whalley. Fascinated
by what he’d heard about Horn-
by, Whalley dug into archives
and interviewed Hornby’s many
friends and fellow adventures in
the Arctic. .

The man John Hornby was
indeed a strange creature. From
the time he arrived in Edmonton in
1904 till his death by starvation in
the winter of 1927 on the barrens,
he.was fascinated by the north
Except for leaving to serve his
country (England) in the First
Wortd War, he rarely left the North.

He was amongst the early trap-

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per/hunters in the Great Bear Lake
region by 1908. He journeyed
overland in 1912 with prospector
George Douglas to the Copper
mine River and hunted mysk oxen
east of that river while Douglas
went on fo the Arctic Coast

Later, Hornby
shifted his opera-
tions to the coun-
try east of Great
Slave Lake. In
1924-1925, with
a one-time
adventurer
named Bullock,
he wintered east
of Great Slave
Lake and crossed the continent
by canoe via various lakes and
rivers. He came out at Baker
Lake and Chesterfield Inlet on
Hudson's Bay.

Today several places on Great
Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake
are named after him.

Despite his abilities as a
hunter, traveler, and adventurer in
the Arctic barren lands, he was a
little mad. Several winters he
nearly starved. These occur-
rences had to do with his attitude
to the land around him. He rarely
planned ahead. He always imag.
ined that something would come
up. Caribou, waiting for his bul-
lets, could be just over that hill

Despite having traveled all
over the Arctic, he refused to plan
and he never showed any organiz-
ing ability or forethought, He
was in love with the North and he
was tough—what else did one
need? Because of this approach
to things, he was a dangerous man
to be in the barrens with. And in
the winter of 1926-27, two young
men found this out the hard
way—dying of starvation

What is intriguing is that their
entire year (1926-27) on the bar-
rens right up to their deaths has
been documented. Edgar Chris-
tian, the 17-year-old nephew of
John Hornby, had been asked by

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his father to keep a diary of his
experiences while he accompa
nied Hornby north. And so he

did, and this was the journal .

found in the stove.

The details of Edgar Christian's
diary became sensational news
items in Eng
land and
Canada in the
late 1920s
Then, in
1937
diary” “was
edited for the
family and
published by
the noted
English publisher John Murray
under the title Unflinching.

For a few decades, this book
and its gruesome story seemed to
disappear. Some interest was
generated, however, when Whal-
ley published The Legend of John
Hornby in 1962—because the last
part of that book owes everything
to Edgar Christian's frank and
detailed diary.

Imagine my excitement, then,
when I discovered that Selkirk
College did have a published ver-
sion of Christian's diary called
Death in the Barren Ground, pub-
lished in 1980 by Canada’s Oberon
Press. It is, as editor George
Whalley notes, Edgar Christian's
story told by Edgar Christian.

It is an exciting tale—a story
of fascination for exploration, a

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story of being spellbound by the
image and person of his uncle
John Hormmby. What is most amaz
ing is the youthful Christian's
ability to convey impressions and
Startle’ us with vivid detail. Tem.
peratures, blizzards, animals
hunted, and the men’s individual
moods are recorded daily. His
scribbled comments outlining the
last moments of a Starving man
are almost beyond belief.

Edgar Christian lasted more
than a month beyond the deaths of
his companions, Had the Arctic
Spring not been a severe one, he
might have survived. He was five
days short of his 19th birthday.

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