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16 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Wednesday, March 18, 1964 Youths To Try | 700-Mile Boat Trip VICTORIA (CP) -- A 7,000 - mile inland voyage from the Arctic to the Gulf of Mexico is shaping up for four youths this summer, thanks to the lifelong dream of one of them, 18-year- o.d Mark Dickinson. The four will leave by rail toward the end of June for Waterways, Alta., where they will launch two 18-foot fibre- glass boats powered by 100- horsepower outboard motors for a trip to the Mackenzie River via Lake Athabasca and Great Slave Lake. They hope to go down the Mackenzie as far as the Arctic Ocean before returning to Akla- vik, N.W.T., for the start of their southbound voyage. If their maps are accurate, only two portages will be nec- essary. They'll take the train from Waterways to Edmonton to avoid rapids on the Atha- baska and again near Minne-| apolis, Minn., in switching to the! Mississippi River system for the Ist leg to New Orleans. USED TO BOATS Dickinson has worked at his father's marina for nine years and has owned his own boat for eight of them. Gerald Scholefield, 19, has| worked at marinas for six years} and had his own boat for two -of them. An undergraduate = student at University of Vic ria with an eye to tay 1 journalist, he will be the expe-| dition's historian - photogre- pher. The third member of the) quartet is Richard Day, 19. A} former junior vice-commodore 'of Maple Bay Yacht Club here, | he has been racing small yachts| for 10 years. Mechanic for the trip will be) Harry Ford, 19, of Calgary, who has had many years' boating experience. | All four are graduates of Vic-| toria's Brentwood School. Dickinson says he has bee working on plans for the trip}; full time since September. He}: now has a briefcase full of in-|: formation and a memory that}: will recall at the drop of a hat): the expected total gas consump- /;: on and mileage from place to Sos8 ) FOR FooD He also has records on the location of outboard motor cruising clubs, gasoline depots and isolated outposts and has} made complete scale en for loading the boats. He estimates they will need| 2,500 gallons of gasoline and will)' consume about $500 worth of food. journey the boys will retrace their route from Aklavik to Wa- 'At the start of the southward|/ FREE TIRE INSTALLATION WHEEL ALIGNMENT rete, ae a BRAKE SERVICE MUFFLERS - SHOCKS terways. Then comes the rail/: 4 trip to Edmonton where they): join the North Saskatchewan/: River system. They will take the North Sas-|: katchewan as far as Lake Win-|! nipeg, then heading south up the Red River to Traverse, Big Stone and Qui Parle Lakes. , Their portage from Qui Parle Lake will take them to Minnea- polis and the Mississippi--and| : the rest of the way should be! "clear sailing," downstream. The four plan to return from} New Orleans by rail in time for| the start of classes in -- | ber. | Suburb Growth | Pays Off For Life In Wilds VICTORIA (CP)--With pati- ence, a slice of wilderness can}; pay off handsomely when sub- urbia takes over. In the case of pioneers Clem- ent Deykin and his friend and partner, Robert Bishop, it paid off to the tune of $274,000, Mr. Deykin is 86. Mr. Bishop) is 81 «| They have just got their money. The roots of their wealth were planted more than 40 years ago when they scraped together all) they had to put a $200 payment} on 274 acres of land in the Prince George area of north- central British Columbia. 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