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Replica Of LaSalle's Griffin Should Have Outboard Windsor Star, Spectator, March 3, 1963 Something of the lure which still time - and indeed ships and exploration have for possibly an excuse - for modern man can be seen in a building a replica of the first number of recent instances ship on the Lakes, where men have built replicas It was in 1679, 284 years ago of famous vessels next shipping season" that the famous voyages. explorer and fur trader LaSalle The latest is the 117-day sent his tiny Griffin voyage across the Atlantic from Lake Erie to the present which a site of Green Bay, Wisconsin. of the Nina, Columbus. This was the first sailing ship smallest ship, and attempted on the Great Lakes to duplicate the explorer's 1492 There would, of course be crossing. They succeeded in building a replica reaching the New World, but of the Griffin and repeating in a considerably longer Ume the trip, possibly on the 300th than Columbus' 70-day voyage, anniversary in 1979. In recent years there have original Griffin, with its cargo been built replicas of H.M.S. of furs, vanished with all its Bounty. There has been disagreement commercial purposes and of the about what happened to primitive raft which even about its size and believed that early men crossed shape. But it might still be possible to re-enact the voyage Great Lakes navigation has of the Griffin, even seen no such attempt at outboard motor stowed aboard creating history. But there is as a tribute to progress Photo of: Even firemen have coffee breaks after the fire is under control of course. Burlington firefighters begin clean-up operations after an $80,000 blaze was extinguished early last Thursday. The fire destroyed a restaurant, barber shop and gift store at Plains and Waterdown Roads, as well as the apartments above, leaving four people homeless. The building was 120 years old and was used as a stage coach stop, toll station and hotel before the three stores were constructed. Today in History THE CANADIAN PRESS The French explorer LaSalle reached the Niagara Falls 284 years ago today in 1679. LaSalle, discoverer of the Mississippi delta, came to Canada in 1667 and made several fur-trading and exploring expeditions before he was killed by a mutineer of his party in what now is Texas.