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Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), February 4, 1987, p. 32

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Page HILLS OUTLOOK Friday Februarys Entertainment Outlook The Book Corner The Orangemen often twists and turns Link Tingley and Doug Cameron arm always on proper speaking Thii girlfriend boyfriend team can make up their mind to be friends or In real life these character are played by acton Mule Jnd Fighting mad Don Macrae a ticket to I itlle Theatre production of The I an Summer which begins 0 For ticket In form a Hon coll TV Ontario to air science behind news Whether we realiw it or not and technology have entered every area of our lives News stories abound attesting to this fact ter- In the prominent athletes arrested on drug charges potential lawsuits from those who object to colorizing old movies In The Edition TVOa- fastpaced news magazine bow the story begins where the new headline leaves off The 13port cries offers viewers the science behind the news clarifying the deuce generally kept In the background of the news story yet of feeling the lives of us all The Science Edition explains and technology in vivid human term covering topics from nature to food ami agriculture recreation and the en to research and devdop- aeriea premieres Wednesday beginning Feb IS at Each program presents two distinct documentaries taped on location with one of five Sdence Edi lion reporters featuring Interviews with leading experts in the topic covered Programs are anchored in the studio by Judy cohost of two previous TVO science snows Not Another Sdence Snow and The Science Alliance Among the documentary items are An Electronic Lifeline which explains the technology that enables an emergency centre per to send help to a location within minutes and Careers on the Line which explains what is In in the various forms of mi balance testing By J M J Careless Once the Orange Order held a powerful place in Canadian politics Those days are now long over but their are vividly recalled and interpreted in The Orangeman The Life and Timet of Ogle Gownn by Donald H James Larimer and Co Hi pages Kits the story of a thrusting scheming yet engaging twister who became the real founder of Orange power in Canada an offshoot of the Irish Protestant landowning class ed in Ontario Upper Canada In ia buying a bush farm In the area He was already to some notorious in ling Orange drdes In his native Ireland At in 1B30 he used rather questionable homeland credentials deftly presented and his undoubted managing talents to launch the Grand Orange Lodge of British North America under Ogle R chosen as deputy grand master and two years later grand master OLD COMRADES Thereby he provided effective organisation for the numbers of local Orange lodges that were multiplying in Upper and Lower Canada and the Maritime with Irish Protestant immigration and which in time attracted many Scots and English newcomers also to their congenial old country com Then Gowan took and himself ardently into politics in the cause of British Loyalty Crown and CRAIGS s SUPER BUY COLOR CONSOLE ONLY 599 COLOR TV VALENTINE SPECIAL COLOR TV control wm Bull n Converter VCR DELUXE MODEL LKIW tAAO VCR AMFM STEREO RADIO CASSETTE RECORDER AC SKOAL MICROWAVE OVENS FROM Constitution that is as more radical and Yankee republican than antiCatholic though that could appear besides But in any case he shaped a po tent force of immigrant Toryism which by the lSSOa was firmly embedded in Conservative Party ranks and by his death in 1878 was a major populist and patronage Instrument on municipal provincial and federal levels ail together TWISTS TURNS Don a distinguished scholar In Irish and history as well a novelist skilfully traces Cowans convoluted career through varied graphic sometimes lurid aspects There Is his Irish background of il legitimacy yet neargentry status a respectability he desperately sought but unusually smeared by his own suspect devices to assure it There in his role in first In Brockville and next in Toronto In but seldom profitable That left him regularly Just a Jump ahead of his creditors what with his wise land and business dealings or lawsuits in addition There is his political generalship the vent speeches and hot debates the dexterous power plays behind scenes the battering election violence he repeatedly called on to And there is his freewheeling life which finally produced an but till ruinous case in court because of his propensity for under ape It has to be noted however that be explicitly terms his volume In its preface a fictionalized biography though it is In keeping with the historical sources discussed In an afterword as far as they ran and could carry hi J MS Careless is University Pro fessor Emerltns at he University of Toronto THE RAW DINNER WEDNESDAY TO I SUNDAY Fran Spin an I The Inn CHARMING VICTORIAN INN ON THE BANKS OF THE CREDIT RIVER TERRA COTTA Reserve Now For Your Valentine Saturday February 14th Closed Saturday February GEORGETOWN RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED 816881 iTIM

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