Selwyn House School - Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 195-I-1935 ialngue The following dialogue between a French student of English and his tutor h IQ been culled from a century old volume, and may amuse our readers: Frf'11rb1mz11.' Ha, my good friend, I have met with one difficulty 1 one very stu rnffe word. How you call H-o-u-g-h F Tnfar: Hull. Fr.: Trix bien, Hldfi and Snu you spell S-n-o-u-g-h, ha I T11fo1'.' Oh, nog Ni11rf7 is S-n-u double f. The fact is, woi ds ent ing in ouglz are a little irregular. Fr.: Ah, ver' good. 'Tis beautiful language. I-I-0-u-g-h is Hzgff, I will iemem wer and C-o-u-g-h Czgff. I have one bad Cliff, ha l Tzzlar: No, that is wrong. YYe su Ixmzf not Czgf. Fr.: Kfzfrf, rl: bien. H1gf7' and Avlbbffl: and, pamlozzzzfz moi, how you call D o u cr 1 - Dzrff, ha l Tzzfof: No, not Dzrff. Fr.: Not llzgf P Ah l 0112: I understand' is um hey! 711lo1'.' No, D-o-u-g-h spells Dar. Fr.: Dov f It is ver' ISIIICQ wonderful luwu UL it is Doe: and 'llo-u-g'h is Tor, ff'rnz.fi1v111v11l. My beef-steak was very Tor. Tnfoz li no, nog you should say Tzqff. Fr.: Tlf ? and the thing the farmer uses, how you call him P-l-o-u-gi ' Ha I you smileg I see I am wrongg it is Pbzzgf ? No F Ah, then it is Plot' like 70 it 1 beautiful language, ver' fine f Pfof ? Tutor: You are still wrong, my friend: it is 0 Fr.: Plow .' XYonderful language Y l shall understand ver' soon. P ore, ra Kzzzdq and one more f R-o-u-g-h, what you call General Taylorg Rauf and Ready ' No certfziuezlmzf it is Rota and Ready! Tnfor: No: R-o-u-g-h spells Rzgf. Fr.: R h ' Let me not forget. R-o-u-g-h is Rzgf and B-o-u-g-h is BIQ7, ha l Tmor: No, H0 . I' Tis ver' simple, wonderful language! but l have had what you call E-n-ofu-g h what you call him Jfliuhr Lone bird above the ltciliglzt f Sing .' ,Jud rex!-rozrr icizlgf inffiglzf .' The .TIHZIJ bright wrzrriorr uowfling Day 011 the ,rpmrf qf nigbf. You weave fzn'0.v.f lbs bro-zo of spare Song-zzefr fo mfrlz my berzrf, jim' wiib ifrrozz zvozzldfec flzix plafe into zz won-bf bpm-1 ...... Uizearlbbv fnzff, Iblfll 5f!l7'71X' .rea You hope in :aiu to .milg .finrl overwhelmed by 6C.ffll,f-V You perirlr an fha gale, I.. W. H., KO l25l

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SELWYN HOUSE SCHOOL MAGAZINE winter in the Qrttlt My exploring party was aboard one of the ships heading for the Arctic ocean. Very few ships ever go there. This is the land of the Fskimo. The climate is very cold, even in summerg the sun is never high in the sky. In winter. the sun never rises at all. During these months people often have to melt snow for drinking water. I.iving is very hard. The Ifskimo builds his hut of snow: this is called an Igloo. The Howers of the north are very pretty. W'e left Montreal, in May, on a ship going to the Arctic. W'e were all mining engineers, and our expedition was sent up to explore for minerals in the far north, coal and iron ore chieHy. W'e went down the St. I,avvrence river, through the straits of Belle Isle, north on the Atlantic ocean, just otl' the coast of Labrador, through Hudson strait to Hudson Bay. There we got into a gasoline launch, about hfty feet long, which we had brought with us. W'e used this for some time exploring among the islands, hut one day, late in August, our boat was caught and jammed in the floating ice. It sank and our supplies were lost. We had to walk over the ice to the shore. This land was the most northerly part of the province of Quebec. We walked around the shore, depending on what we could kill for food. Finally, in October, we arrived at Moose Factory in James Bay. There at the Hudson Bay Depot, we were given food, clothes and shelter. One of our party was sick and laid up for six weeks. Then they outfitted us with dog-teams and provisions. W'e arrived at Cochrane, in northern Ontario, on New Year's day. From here we communicated with our people, who had not heard from us since August and thought us dead. W'.G.AI.S., Form 1. may Bays 1,7101 Ihr .mu if high, Jmz' .Ihr .thy if hfuv, I1'0:c'p!m.vm11 to lif- 'Ymfh ll frm' Qf -vric. Lyilig hy Il lrrf, Ilffzirizzg lo haf, Cozzhf llllffflillg he .hIft't'l'Illlll1 fha! ? The bllffllldilyf mff Thriflf lo Ihr fort' .' Ifhwz hal IIIt't'f.Y hfzff, ll'i!!i1 he 11 'ifonrn F Ezwlv chap in Ala-v Ifith n .N'r.'tt'-viz rrrrr ll'ill put if this teauv f That frirkel 1.5 hex! ' T. B., Form SA. l34l

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SFLWYN HOUSE SCI-IOOI. MAGAZINE Zbernes To my mind, a man who dies bravely when he has to die, is not such a hero as the man who sacrilices his life to save the lives of others. That is why one of my heroes is Dollard des Ormeaux, who many years ago saved the little settlement of Montreal from destruction. This is the story: :X tribe of live or six hundred Iroquois in war paint was reported by friendly Indians to be paddling down the Ottawa river towards Montreal. Dollard with seventeen young men Cas no others could be spared! set out to meet the enemy. XYhen they reached a good spot for defence, some forty miles up the river, they built a stockade, and awaited the coming of the Indians. The next day, the foremost canoes hove into view, and seeing the small band behind the stockade rushed to destroy it. After a long battle, every white man was killed, but for every white man who fell ten savages met their death. The Iroquois braves held a council of war and decided that if eighteen men could withstand them so long, they would never be able to capture Montreal, and they turned around and paddled back to their wigwams with only eighteen scalps at their belts instead of those of an entire settlement. Drake is another of my heroes. He was perhaps the greatest Seaman of all times. IYhen you think of Drake, you think ofa very brave man full oflove for his country. He hated the Spaniards for their tyranny over the seas, and English ships. He was feared by every Spanish ship and town, and was known to the Spaniards as Iil Draque The Dragon Drake never touched a woman or an unarmed man, and his soldiers had strict orders to obey that Law. He was the first Englishman to sail around the YYorld. In the year 1533, Drake sailed to meet the Spanish Armada, composed of 129 ships manned with 27,000 men, and armed with 2,000 cannon, the English had just over half that number of ships and less than half the men, but they were victorious. In 159-1 Drake made his last voyage. He died of fever, and was buried in the sea he loved so well, and which had borne him to so many victories. Joan of .-Xrc is the greatest of French heroines. She was born in Domremy,a little village on the banks of the Meuse, during the Hundred Years IYar, when English and Burgundians were lighting against the rightful King of France. One day in a vision she saw the white and shining Saints calling to her. She was told to save France, to go to the Dauphin and crown him king. She went to the captain of the town and told him that she must see the Dauphin to help him get back his throne, but the captain would not listen to her. Joan was undismayed. She begged her uncle's help and he persuaded the captain to have her escorted to Chinon where the Dauphin held his Court. The Dauphin listened to Ioan's exhortation, and in the year 1-129 the maid led an army to raise the siege of Orleans. The battle swayed this way and that, but never did the English Fire whenjoan came on. She led her troops to the wall, they swarmed over and recaptured the town. Then Joan went to Rheims and stood by the Dauphin while he was being crowned. But he would not let her return home, she must stay and fight the rest of his battles. Finally, at Compiegne, the maid was captured by the Burgundians and sold to the English, and was burnt in the Rouen market place as a witch. It would be impossible to write in a few pages about all the heroes of the world, these three are the ones I always think of first. They all possess the same quality, love of country. IC., Form III. l 36 1