Selwyn House School - Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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SELWYN HOUSE SCHOOL MAGAZINE MY CANOE TRIP I..-IST SUMMER Ii set out from Camp on July 28 with our destination Manowan, a Huds0n's Hay post about two hundred miles north of Montreal. Our party consisted of eight people, Nr. Greenlees, Mr. Doak, an assistant at Camp, ,Iohn Mappin, Hugh lNIcI.ennan, Arthur Nathewson, Fred Tees, Peter Hatch, an Ashbury boy, and myself. On the first day we drove from Joliette to St. Michel des Saints, a village about a hundred and twenty miles north of Montreal. IYe slept in the hay loft of a barn that night and started off up Lac Toro, a flooded lake about twenty-two miles long, the next morning. We stopped for lunch on a little island nine or ten miles from St. Michel. Ferdinand's Island was mostly sand with brush in the centre. The day being hot and sunny, we paddled the rest of the lake stripped to the waist. Ive came to our first portage about seven in the evening, and pitched the tent as soon as we arrived at the first camping- place. This was situated just inside the mouth of Hamel Creek, a swampy little waterway by which we were to get to Manowan. We ate our supper in the dark, throughout which, being damp, we killed mosquitoes in droves. The next day was also beautiful and it was spent travelling over long portages and short stretches of paddling. During the morning as we were rounding one of the many bends in the creek, Peter Hatch, who was the bow paddler in our canoe suddenly turned round and whispered loudly, Hey, Mr. Greenlees, look I Wie had stopped paddling by then but the canoe drifted round the bend, and I, being amidships, saw the topic of excitement. It was a huge bull moose standing in the water not more than fifteen yards away, eating the grass that grows under the surface. He lifted up his head, looking toward us with a mixture of wonder and amazement written on his face. I wondered for a moment if he were going to charge us. He then turned and trotted up the creek, not in any great hurry, as if he thought us weak intruders and rather contemptible. :Ks he trotted off, Mr. Greenlees noticed that he had large gashes or cuts on the backs of his hind legs, which, he thought, might have been caused by wolves. During all this, which happened in a matter of seconds, I had been trying to get my camera out, which of course stuck as might be ex- pected. That sort of thing always happens when one has just a few seconds in which to do a thing. That night the mosquitoes were again very bad. The next four days were uneventful except that on Friday it began to rain. That was the beginning ofa spell of bad weather which stayed with us throughout the remainder of the trip, so that we were wet morning, noon and night of almost every remaining day. Dk Pk fl: From Hamel Lake, which is the headwater of Hamel Creek, we portaged to Lac Croche, a lake about seven miles long, and from there we crossed to Lac Long, up which we paddled to at small island about ten miles away. Thar was our camp on Saturday night. On the way up the lake we stopped for our daily ration of chocolate at an old Indian camp, where we found a perfect set of moose antlers, about four feet in width. That night we all went out fishing near the island but didn't catch anything much. I24l

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FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 1942-1943 All through Europe in France, Belgium, Holland, Czechoslovakia and in all the conquered countries, starved and broken-down civilians long for revenge. In Jugoslavia, the Chetniks, under Gen. Mihailovitch, are fighting back in the mountains. They kill, sabotage and light the Germans in every way possible to gain peace eventually. In Greece, citizens cannot light back through lack of food. Horrible pictures come through showing the starved people spread in the streets and ditches. Many heroic stories are brought back from I.ibya. Old guardsnien, veterans of the last war, now are working as road repairers. .-X motor-cycle messenger speeding in, stops and tells them that German parachutists are coming down behind the lines. They take their rifles and one Bren gun. :X strategic hill has to be defended. They reach the hill and prepare themselves. They stave off the crack German parachutists for halt' an hour and then, when the German attack is repulsed by the Anzac and British forces, they are relieved by the Grenadier Guards. They have good reason to be proud. In Norway, British ships come, feeling their way through a thick fog into an im- portant harbour. The commandos are striking again Y They reach the beaches and start for the town, burning and devastating German armaments on their way. They capture German officers and Norwegian Quislings. Their mission concluded, they return to their ships, bringing back valuable information for the Allies. In France, the underground, a secret getaway for pilots forced down in France, is taking great risks. If any airman were ever to be caught in one of the Frenchman's houses it would be sure death for him and perhaps his family. In the .-Xtlantic battle zone, a merchant ship, bringing food to Britain is suddenly hit by a torpedo from a Nazi If-boat. It goes down to the bottom in three minutes and all hands are lost. So as I sat in my arm-chair, free from dangers and without any worries, I thought of the so many ways in which we, on the home front, could help. We could lend for victory, contribute to the Red Cross, Aid to Russia Fund, Aid to China Fund and help in numerous other ways to relieve the suffering of the stricken people of Europe and also to lend as- sistance to our .-Xllied soldiers all over the world. J. T., Form 6. THE STORY OF BOB HERE was once a Newfoundland dog and his name was Bob. He lived in a little house in one of the New England States. ' One day in june Bob was swimming in the sea. He suddenly heard a motor. It was a German submarine and he began to bark at it. The coastguards heard him from their boat and looked to see what the matter was. The submarine began to fire at them and hit a Hag but the coastguards hred back at the submarine and also sent for help. They called Bob and tied a message on him. He swam back to the coast and there they took the message from him. Help was sent and Bob had saved the coastguard's boat from the enemy I Yvhen he got home he was given much petting from his family. P. I. D.. Form .-X. l23l

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