COPYRIGHT PHOTO
Pecequan, Medicine Man of the Sucker Lake
band of Ojibways (Saulteaux) was said to
be responsible for twenty medicine murders.

line and, with the four prisoners
loping ahead on snowshoes, the patrol
moved swiftly over the icy bay, now
a dull scarlet in the light of the
setting sun.

Far on into the starlit night they
urged their huskies through the em-
purpled darkness lest hot-headed
bucks, urged on by the squaws, might
decide to attempt a rescue.

Foot sore, and grimy from the
smoke of many campfires, the patrol
pushed southward. Suddenly winter
broke, a hot sun turned the snow to
slush. Sleigh travel became impossible
except in the cool of night. Dog-feed
and rations were disappearing rapid-
ly. The prisoners were getting awk-
ward, and the sleigh-dogs balky. Tired,
spent and ragged they pushed at last
through the grey stockades of Island
Lake.

Two hundred miles to go; the trails
broken, the surface of lake and river

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Phone 296

TWENTY-FOURTH EDITION

COPYRIGHT PHOTO

An Oytbway (Saulteaux) hunter

knee-deep in freezing slush, and rotten
river ice growing daily more danger-
ous. “You're crazy to go on,” Bill
Campbell warned them. “Camp here
till open water, and go on by my fur
brigade to Norway House in June.”

South to Norway House

It was late in June when the tawny
crews of the four big-red painted
York boats dipped their 18-foot
sweeps into the blue waters of Island
Lake. From a thousand Indians lining
the rocks came farewell whoops and
the staccato volleys of muzzle-loaders.
With Cashman and _ his _ prisoners
seated in the flag-ship the brigade
headed south for Norway House.
Next day the boats were leaping like
salmon in the froth and spume of
Kanutchewan Rapids. At Mossy Port-
age boats, fur bales and rations were
hauled through droning clouds of

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VIC INGRAM, Manager
LANGLEY PRAIRIE B.C.

MacDonald’s Rexall Drugs

Prescription Druggist
Phone 204

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Coquitlam Pharmacy

R. M. GILLESPIE
PRESCRIPTION DRUGGIST
Phone 77
PORT COQUITLAM B.C.

The Canadian Legion of the
British Empire Service League

C. S. THOMPSON, President
C. N. CURRIE, Treasurer
L. H. TURNER, Sec.-Manager

P.O. Box 159, Phone 78
Mission Branch 57, Mission City, B.C.

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MISSION CITY B.C.

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and COUNTRY CLUB
LANGLEY PRAIRIE

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LANGLEY BRANCH
No. (B.C.) 21

Canadian Legion (B.E.S.L.)
Langley Prairie
We extend a cordial invitation to all
Legion members to visit us.

Open from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m.

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