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6 The Canadian Statesman. Bowmanvillc. December 11,1985 Section Two New Ontario Bird Book ^Birds Of Ontario J* Murray Speirs It has been almost 100 years since Thomas Mcllwraith wrote the last definitive work on all the birds known in Ontario. Fortunately, the birders of Canada's premier province will not have to wait another hundred years, thanks to the efforts of Dr. J. Murray Speirs, whose two volume Birds of Ontario has just been published, indicating the recent status of our Ontario birds. This extensive and long overdue work of reference, covers all of the bird species, more than 400 which have been recorded in the province of Ontario. Volume I contains an identification and description description of all species, with 344 outstanding color plates. Anyone with even a casual interest in birds will find the color plates and informative text of considerable interest. The first volume contains a list of all the birds identified in Ontario up to the end of 1984, with the common and scientific scientific names given by the American Ornithologists' Union 1983 Check-list and as arranged in that work. The second volume summarizes the status of each species using maps to show the average population over a ten-year period (1968 to 1977), both during the Christmas count period and during the breeding period in summer. These are supplemented by documented observations at representative localities in all four seasons. This volume also gives measurements and results from bird banding and literature pertinent to Ontario Birds. There is an extensive bibliography and an index. About the Author As a curious six-year old, J. Murray Speirs spotted a small bird which he was able with the aid of a bird-book to identify as a Ruby-crowned Kinglet. This early fascination with birds has remained throughout a lifetime of activity as an Ornithologist and Naturalist. Following completion of undergraduate work in Mathematics and Physics, Murray Speirs obtained two graduate degrees in Zoology specializing in Ornithology. He taught for many years in the Zoology Department of the BEFORE AFTER : We Specialize in • Custom Spray Painting • Professional Collision Repair (on all types of cars and trucks) • Reasonable rates FREE ESTIMATES AUTO BODY Located 4 miles north of Hwy. #401 on Hwy. 115-35 (behind All Seasons Holiday) PHONE: 983-9784 Spotlight on Jerry Petryshyn Durham East P.C.s Elect New Executive University of Toronto from which he is now retired. Many Canadian birders are familiar with the series of books on the Birds of Ontario County which Murray has compiled and edited. To research this series he drove with his student assistants almost every road in the country, stopping frequently to listen, watch and record. He also covered many of the navigable waterways by canoe or rowboat. Eventually, he divided the research area into quadrats with forest, field and urban plots. The series was published in six sections between 1973 and 1979. For' the past fifty years, Murray and his ornithologist wife, Doris H. Speirs, have been constant field companions, companions, mutually supportive of such publications as articles bn the Evening Grosbeaks and Lincoln's Sparrow in A. C. Bent's Life Histories of North American Birds. What Others Say Birdwatching has become one of the fastest growing hobbies in Ontario, thanks to its strategic location on the continent where so many habitats are represented. The loving and the serious lifelong involvement with birds by Murray Speirs is celebrated in this book on the Birds of Ontario. Every birder will benefit by this definitive work. Roger Tory Peterson. Long ago I had the privilege of spending considerable time with Murray- Speirs in, the wilderness of central Ontario there to learn the technique according to which the author thus laid the foundation of Birds of Ontario. His basic ingredient was sound. Faultlessly Faultlessly learned by an ear constantly constantly so finely attuned to the identity of the species, to the individual, to situations, even moods, that a mistake became almost totally unlikely. Now, with a master's gentle persuasion, persuasion, the author has created the best opportunity to transmit transmit to untold followers his own art enhancing ornithological sciences. Louise de Kiriline Lawrence. Birds of Ontario, introduction introduction by Robert Bateman, Volume I and Volume II, $49.95 and $24.95, published in Canada by Natural Heritage- Natural History Inc., Toronto. Durham East Progressive Conservatives elected their Riding Association's executive at a meeting on December 4th. In the front row, from left, are Secretary Caroline Burke, President Marianne Zakarow, and Vice-President from the Oshawa area Deanna Wiley. In the back row, from left, are MPP Sam Cureatz, Vice-President from Bowmanville Ron Strike, Treasurer-CFO Stephanie Ball, and Vice-President from Darlington Darlington Fred Gardiner. Absent is John Reid, Vice- President from Clarke. Marianne Zakarow will again be president of the Progressive Conservative Durham East Riding Association, Association, as she was acclaimed for a second term at the association's annual annual meeting on December 4th. During the meeting, Mrs. Zakarow gave a brief synopsis synopsis of the association's activities activities during 1985, which has been a very active year for the provincial Conservatives. Conservatives. A leadership convention convention in the Spring saw the election of Frank Miller. It Employment Conditions The first wave of Ukrainian immigrants to Canada saw this country take its first steps towards multiculturalism. Jerry Petryshyn, a native of Courtice who is now a professor of history in Alberta, has written a detailed and extremely interesting history of these displaced Ukrainian peasants, their adapting to an entirely new culture, and the Canadians' reaction to the influx of eastern Europeans at the turn of the century. The book should be available in bookstores by mid-December, and would make a terrific Christ mas presènt for anyone of Ukrainian descent. by Diane Pickett To tear up one's roots and emigrate to a land where the culture, religion, and language are different is very difficult even to-day. For the Ukrainian peasants who came to Canada in the years between 1891 and 1914, it was an act of remarkable remarkable courage. Many Canadians in Ontario, Ontario, and particularly in the western provinces, are of Ukrainian descent and make a special effort to preserve preserve their unique heritage and the memory of those who transplanted it here. Jerry Petryshyn is one of these Canadians. He has written a book called "Peasants "Peasants in the Promised Land", which looks atthe first wave of Ukrainian immigrants in Canada from both the point of view of the immigrants themselves and the "host society** About 170,000 Ukrainians came to Canada around the turn of the century. Most were from the Austro-Hungarian Austro-Hungarian Empire and most settled settled in Canada's developing western provinces. The Canadian government's government's policies were aimed at opening up the west and populating the present day provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan Saskatchewan and Alberta. Mr. Petryshyn's book looks at the reasons why Ukrainians in particular, and Eastern Europeans in general, were FOR HER MERRY WIDOWS FROM $ 40 00 to $ 50 00 SATIN ROBES SATIN SLIPPERS SATIN PAJAMAS PEIGNOIR SETS BRA and PANTI SETS GARTER BELTS STOCKINGS, PANTYHOSE - all colors WINTER VELOUR ROBES $35.00 long or short high heel or low heel for men or ladies imported from France Reg. $70. NOW REMEMBER OUR 50% OFF RACK PINK GARTER 26 Bond St. E., Oshawa HOURS: MON. to FRI. 9:30 to 9:00 728-5740 SAT. 9:30 to 6:00 considered suitable immigrants. immigrants. "These were stalwart peasants in funny looking clothes," says Mr. Petryshyn, Petryshyn, "but their cultural unsuitability was overid- den by economic utility. The government was set on populating the west." He also studies the adjustments adjustments made by the Canadian populace to the new element in their society, society, and how the Ukrainian presence affected the French-English duality. Of course, Mr. Petryshyn also deals with the difficulties difficulties that confronted the immigrants, immigrants, the adaptations that had to be made and where they stood their ground on educational and religious issues. He also studies the reasons they left their homes in Eastern Europe for a new and strange land. "Canada changed them, but they changed Canada," Mr. Petryshyn says, "Canada "Canada took its first step toward toward multi-culturalism." A history professor in Alberta, Alberta, Mr. Petryshyn has worked on his book for the past five years, searching the provincial archives and the Public Archives in Ottawa Ottawa for research materials. materials. At the current time he is on a year's sabbatical to complete the book and to begin a new project, and is staying at his family home in Courtice. Mr. Petryshyn is a graduate of Courtice Secondary Secondary School and completed a B.A. at York University and a Masters at Waterloo. After obtaining his doctorate doctorate at the University of Western Ontario, he took a position at the University of Alberta, where he taught for two years. He was the Alberta member on the Canadian Historic Sites and Monuments Monuments committee and is presently a history professor professor at the Grande Prairie Regional College, some 300 km. north of Edmonton. While he loves teaching, Mr. Petryshyn confesses that he is not missing the Alberta winter, and is quite enjoying enjoying being home for the season. season. The 30-ycar-old professor is not considering leaving the teaching profession to become a full-time writer, but keeps his hand in it by writing a weekly book-review book-review column in the Grande Prairie Herald. Strangely enough, lie does not review history books, or even historical historical novels, but reviews the latest thrillers and suspense suspense novels. "Peasants in the Prom- ised Land"' bÿ Jaroslav Petryshyn Petryshyn has been published very recently by James Lorimer and Company, Toronto, Toronto, and should be in the bookstores in time for Christmas. Oshawa Canada Employment Centre Date: 4 December 1985 The number of clients registered for work at the Canada Employment Centres in Ajax, Whitby and Oshawa for, the month of November totalled 8,904 which compares to 8,714 registrations during October 1985 and 17,287 registrations during November 1984. Placements in the three offices totalled 594 for the month, which compares to a total of 1,544 placements during October 1985 and 1,196 placements during November 1984. During November, the greatest employment opportunities opportunities existed in Food and Beverage, Retail Trade and Special Trade Contracting. At the end of November, there were 261 students in the skill courses sponsored by the Canada Employment Centre and 70 people receiving academic upgrading at Durham College. was followed by the election election in May, which was very successful for Sam Cureatz in this riding but was disastrous disastrous for the party generally. generally. And in November, a second leadership convention convention elected Larry Grossman. In addition to Mrs. Zakarow's acclamation, Caroline Burke was acclaimed as Secretary, and vice-presidents Deanna Wiley, Ron Strike, John Reid and Fred Gardiner Gardiner were elected. About 40 people attended the annual meeting at Maxwell Maxwell Heights School in Oshawa. The audience included included school trustee Bob Willsher, separate school trustee Bob Burke, Newcastle Newcastle Mayor John Winters, regional regional councillor Irv Har rell, and Police Commissioner Commissioner Walter Beath. Patrick G. 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