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jp57r pago 5 i ii a learmoifth famous jure in canadas north country 1 a- learmouth the inspiration iar this article in a recent issue of the star weekly is wellknown in georgetown where he visits with thie sister miss n learmonth main his brother the late r si learmonth was a vet- before his death byharold milliard jss in the toronto star weekly i jinan who knows by the first ymune just about every living ski- vjno in the western half of canadas syfisien arctic backyard is off iffrv jigahi this winter seeking new ad- ventures and more answers to some jthe secrets of canadas -jmyster- iojis barrenlands he aims for one thing to- reach a remote island nev- er before visited by man an island pjv which wasnt even known by eski- kittios to exist until jt was spotted by a recent rcaf aerial survey he is l a- learmonth a-hud- tiiaon8 bay co trader and spare- time explorer and amateur scientist who has become almost a legend- ary figure in the canadian polar regions during his 39 years in its rem reaches and according to if top canadian museum officials his contribution to mans knowledge of the eskimo qpd the arctic has been unmatched by any other canadian one purpose of the present- trip is to resume his search for rare archaeological specimens of early eskimo cultures for the royal on- tario museum cr toronto he wants to add these to an exhibit recently opened at the museum of a collec tion of tools and weapons of pre historic tribes which he previously plucked from the frigid shores of somerset island the island is beyond the magnetic poleand even beyond the most northerly main land point of the continent at the same time he will test out two new theories about the ill- fated franklin expedition one of his own- and the pttier advanced by a r england the expedition perished to- a nan on the arctic wastes over a century ago while seeking to be thehrsl conquerors of the north west passage learmonth ison of the four men in history reputed to have travelled the passage in both iui directionsa feat performed hot is f orcing ice a planned effort but jn the norma course of his trading duties specimens unmatched learmonth of the arctic has ac quired as varied and fabulous ex- periertce as any man who ever in habited canadas polar regions his newest and largest of a number of exhibits in the royal ontario mus eum represent the fruits of a 1948- 49 expedition which started out to be one of a few weeks duration but which led to adventures that extended it to a year he was sta tioned at fort ross on somerset island just across bel lot straits friljn the northern tip of boothia peninsula his destination- was a prehistoric eskimo whaling camp at creswell bay so miles up the east coast of somerset he arrived there in the late sum mer aboard a whaleboat with sev eral eskimos to discover a camp of about 20 natives stricken by a contagious disease prehistoric re mains forgotten for the moment he sped back to fort ross for medical supplies but he radio there had been dismantled so it was well into winter before he could flash the word ttbnuv writer mushing 200 miles cross shifting ice and baf- fittd island to the radio equipped post of arctic bay before the mercy mission was completed by rcaf aircraft a feat which was the subject of wide news paper publicity for weeks winter was about over so learmonth s digging wasnt completed until the summer of 1949- then he had to wait weeks for weather and ice conditions to be right so he could navigate treacherous ice back to fort floss bellot struts leading to e at the best of times only at certain hours of the day with which only those with long experience in that area are familiar to reach his destina tion learmonth had to tie off the entrance to the straits waiting for the right hour an incoming tide iiito the entrance like a cork in the neck of the bot tle so the trick was tostfoe through on a falling tide which uncorked the bottleneck of ice the specimens now on exhibit represent the first so complete a collection on the thule eskimo cul ture about 900 to 1300 ad evei o appear in the royal ontario mus- cum while there are four other comparable collection in the world in museums in ottawa copenhagen new york and philadelhpia lear- months specimens come from re mote arctic regions which no other scientific man ever visited the creswell bay finds brings to oyer 900 the number of archaelog- ical specimens learmonth has con tributed without charge 1e georgetown herald wednesday jan 1 7tf 1951 chevrolet for 1951 presents a new profile with extended rear fenders newly designed grille longer lower more sweeping lines and many other features chevrolet also oilers powerglide auto matic transmission as an option at extra tost powerglide is fully automatic and eliminates the clutch pedal and the mechanical shift this is the first fully automatic transmission to be offered in the low- esf price field also offered are new jumbodrum brakes which require 25 percent less pedal pres sure shown above is the 1951 chevrolet styleline deluxe fourdoorsedantbere are 11 other models including the chevrolet bel air canadas first hardtop convertible to the ontario museum many come jjm wh hewas introduced almost inaccessible places where the cost has barred scientific expedi tions prof t f mcllwraith asso ciate director of the royal ontario museum of archaeology believes that because of his knowledge of the north learmonth can locate speci mens in days that would take other scientific men months the 400 to 500 arctic bird skins he has contri- blted to the hoyal ontario museum of zoology are a key portion of a north american collection unmatch ed by any other museum in the world learmonth had been contributing historical specimens to his com panys museum in winnipeg for in 1935 to dean h a innes of the university of toronto who was combining a holiday with scientific research at the chesterfield inlet post on hudson bay innes famil iar with learmonths travels asked if the trader explorer would be in terested in sending specimens to the royal ontario museum two years later learmonth walked into the museum in toronto with his iim offerings aiittva steady stream libs irin arriving since one his torical specimen is a cannot dating back io elizabethan limes which he recovered from ruins of the hms kury it foundered on an island in 1824 when admiral parry made an unsuccessful attempt- to navigate the northwest passage reopens franklin story t i in mm post mmh yen w mm bow imitnhmfl nr i tir oar potition among mm worlds grat bonis it a tymbol at canada groat and growing ataatfapoo otwong mm nations cfcvl 000 w as compered with 1935 m- xs a place in which to live and work to earn money and enjoy it canada grew tremendously during 1930 it grew with new and bigger oilfields factories mines homej school stores and trade in fact canada grew in practically every department of lifetaojp effort a the royal bank of canada shared in this growth growing with the country helping it to grow for there is no field of canadian expansion in which the royal bank has not shared our loans to farmer fishermen industrialists to firms large and mail and to individuals showed marked increase during the year just closed our deposits grew to 2337000000 our assets to over 2497000000 both new records io canadian banking we improved our premises in many plaeesttr provide faster more convenient service in congenial surroundings and wa opened a number of new branches to serve rapidly expanding communities in cities town and rural areas looking forward w shall continue our efforts to serve all canadians efficiently and in a spirit of helpful friendliness conodot i hot groyn by 3000000 tinea 1933 exporta in 4obor andkl oh production wot tjrantr areata i n n ttiit y in 1951 he has arod to guide and advise what officials of the hoyal ontario museum hope will be the first of a series of annual scientific expeditions to canadas most remote north if the plan rnat- eiializts it will carry such investi gation closer to the north pole than ever undertaken by any canadian institution the objective is a com posite expedition consisting of top ield menj of at least three of the hoyal ontarios museums arch aeology zoology and geology as well as other scientists including some from the university of tor ontos geography and oceanography departments the archaeology men will look to learmonth to lead them to prehis toric eskimo camps because he is believed to know of more such sites thany any other living man geol- ojjius will seek information about roik structures to help encourage prospecting of an empire within a country which a federal government geologist believes to be the worlds largest untapped mineral store- noisc in 136 learmonth was the lea der of one of six expeditions in 82 years to locate concrete traces of the kranklin expedition after vir tually writing finis to the franklin story lfearmonth has renewed it lately by advancing his own theory that franklin whose remains never were found may be buried on the unnamed island not even known to exist until spotted by the rcaf aerial survey the existing theory is that franklin was buried at sea after death from sickness aboard his ship while it was ice- locked about 25 miles off king wil- liwm island learmonth argues that an icebound ship isnt likely to bury its dead at sea it is now known the ship was frozen in at a point about- halfway between king william and the newly known is land so learmonth thinks a search of the latter may reveal not only the expedition leaders burial place but possibly some of the missing expedition records the other new theory has been adyanced by admiral noel wright he has made a lifetime hobby of studying every tittle of information surrounding the death in 1847 at franklin and his 134 officers and men and the unexplained disap pearance without trace of the ex peditions two ships wright thinks records of franklin will be found under a stone cairn farther north than anyone has yet searched learmonth has won a place in the affections at canadas eskimos which can be compared with the esteem felt for britains lawrence by the natives of arabia before and during world war 1 this is par ticularly true among the 1200 who sparsely populate the portion of canadas frigid wasteland lying be tween the alaskan border and the western coast ot baffin island strangers to hjm however are sev eral hundred alaskan natives who have invaded the delta at the mouth of the mackenzie river in the last two years to trap muskrats this has followe the sha decline lns to provide education far them because he believes it wie enable them to competjb- on equal- footins with whites for the gnoar in number of arctic opportunities- ottawa is receiving his advice on the preparation of proposed text books in the eskiino language lear- month thinks the natives would he- l articularly valuable as civfbcan ground personnel for the air force as they have an uncanny grasp of mechanics nine times out of ten they prooably can beat a whit man repairing a motor land of opportunity a man who has lived longer inr the far north than probably any other white canadian learmonbi received hs baptism to canadas barrenlancts long before he got intimate glimpses of its cities he left his native orkney islands as a youth of 17 in 1911 and except for a brief stop at montreal made us first landing at davis inlet in far- north labrador each move frona- post to post was westward until hat was ordered to the west coast of hudson bay and he has remained west of there for most of his trad ing career he mushed 2000 miles a winter by dogteam whert district inspector of the western arr-tii- somr the hudsons bay co between i ml and 1948 since he left that posi tion a company plan has been in troduced to speed up the inspec tors travels although now officially semrre tired learmonth terrains as active as ever and his present assignment is the arduous task of closing down thepost at fort ross which he first established 13 years ago unlike putting the shutters on a corner grocery store its at least a three- year job having lived through the span of arctic evolution which has seen the changeover from an era when the dogteam was the only mode of winter travel to one in which the aircraft has supplemented but no replaced dogs learmonth wel comes the new aid as a tool to has ten the advance of his pet projects- to the forefront arc his archaeolog ical and franklin investigations but equally important in his mind is the- move by ottawa to reestablish a sound economy for the eskimos- tnese are first steps he feels is the constant search for ways andi means to transform canadas great barrenlands from little more than j a huge curiosity shop and a step pingstone for a potential enemy into a land of opportunity dotted by great mines fisheries andfc other sources of economic wealth- mn campbell sinclair new president knox womens missionary mrs campbell sinjflir was elec ted president of the womans mis sionary society of knox presby terian church at a meeting in the- church last wednesday she suc ceeds her motherinlaw mrs w t sinclair who has been president for several years during the meeting presentations of cups and saucers were made tb mrs w t sinclair and the retir ing secretary mrs alex hume mrs- hugh clark read an address to the ladies thanking them for their faith ful service and mrs r b fouli made the presentations mrs william cromar read sv phapter from the new ainrfy- tyoofr in t i z snarp dernn vgwr irom tne new stud 1 u z white fovwhlch arrangements were made ua1 i l economy- 1 what of prayer and a service eat is to the prajriest the toj it porfn no problem ca qxik cvslt low price forraer will be- hejrj in the church in february cftficers of the organization taw- ihjs year arej mrs w t sinclair past president mrs campbell sinc- clairpresldent mrs william tw7 great iafcjc -i- m u ow price wanibm ion wuilam xt s 2tv ove calder and vice president m serving a growing country j geprgetown feraftick f p benner manager forced niarty of them to give todiys price of or leas has fcrouxbt jean times to the northers iktfvcev in4 learmonth believes b be jiejoed only if tteir 1 work hyjih tov- itfeviihsariwnifiederal calder 2nd vice president hthb sam mackenzie secretary mrs r- b foiilla treasurer m lmi ttvpx j n i ti j hi i ipu- v a sr u 30yjt aakseila