The record, 27 janvier 1989, vendredi 27 janvier 1989

Townshii- Week Suomi K«ne Bcvurai » 1M Binhs, deaths.11 Classified.12 Comics .13 Editorial .4 Farm & Business .6-7 Living.10 Sports .14-15 Townships .3 In Townships Week this week: René Béchard is not only the Sherbrooke Symphony Orchestra’s percussionist but he is also one of the area’s most able baritone saxophone players and will be guest-conductor at the orchestra’s next Pop concert.Inside Bernard Epps writes about the history of Knowlton, part 2.Page 5.It looks like Lennoxville can kiss its bypass goodbye.Page Sports editor Scott David Harrison gets drafted by the Canadiens.Page 15.Weather, page 2 Sherbrooke Friday, January 27,1989 50 cents Bourassa leaves France .__ .» ^ Premier’s trip brings no deals for Canadair Delage takes over case St-Basile investigator moves on to Alliance TOULOUSE (CP) —Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa ended his four-day visit of France on Thursday with a lot of rhetoric under the diplomatic bridge, but very little in the way of concrete results.The trip — aimed at promoting trade between France and Quebec — saw the signing of an accord attesting to "mutual interests" but failed to close any deals, including the long-awaited order by the French government for 12 Canadair waterbombers at $150 million Canadair president Raymond Royer, who accompanied Bourassa, did not hide his disappointment at the deal’s failure to materialize, nor was he much consoled by French Prime Minister Michel Ro-card’s promise to reconsider the order in 1990.The delay, Royer said, would oblige Canadair to reorganize its QUEBEC (CP) — Cyril Delage, the province’s chief fire commissioner, will take over the investigation of the blaze which destroyed the offices of Alliance Quebec, Public Security Minister Gil Remil-lard said Thursday.Delage will replace Montreal fire commissioner John McDou gall, who resigned from the case because he has been a member of Alliance Quebec, the province’s largest English-rights lobby group, for several years."Justice must not only be done but be seem to be done,’’ McDou- gall said in a letter, dated Wednesday, which was sent to Remillard.Nobody has been arrested in the Dec.30 blaze but Alliance Quebec and its president, Royal Orr, intend to sue a Montreal TV station and Le Journal de Montreal newspaper for stories which identified Orr as the prime suspect.Orr has dismissed the accusation as ridiculous.Delage conducted an inquiry into a fire last August that destroyed a warehouse containing toxic PCBs at St-Basile-le-Grand.MONTREAL (CP) —The Mouvement Québec français plans a demonstration in the streets of Montreal on March 12 to press for withdrawal of the latest amendments to Quebec’s language law.The movement objects in particular to a part of the new law allowing the posting of bilingual signs inside commercial establishments.On Dec.15, the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the French-only sign provisions of Quebec’s language law, saying it contravened the freedom-of-expression guarantees in the Quebec charter of rights.Shortly after the ruling, the government passed a new law maintaining the ban on languages other than French on exterior commercial signs but allowing bilingual signs indoors.The new law is protected by an override clause in the Canadian and Quebec charters of rights.On March 14, the presidents of Unpaid farm workers an endangered species?OTTAWA (CP) — Unpaid family workers, often women and teenagers on the farm, are fast disappearing from the national workforce.A study by Statistics Canada says their numbers have shrunk so low they amount to an endangered species, accounting for less than one per cent of workers.Bigger farms, better machines and changes in tax and matrimonial laws are among the reasons behind the trend.There were 93,000 unpaid workers in 1987, down from 132.000 in 1975 and 401,000 in 1946, the year Ottawa began keeping track of labor-force data regularly.Of the dwindling 1987 total, 66.000 unpaid workers were women and 17,000 were teenagers.Unpaid family workers accounted for nine per cent of the workforce in 1946.The study, by Doreen Duchesne, deals with unpaid work within the family.It does not include volunteer or other unpaid work outside the family.Ninety per cent of all unpaid family members in 1946 could be found on farms, compared with 64 per cent in 1987.Traditionally, many such workers have been farm wives.But the pattern is changing.The number of unpaid married women 25 and over working on farms totailed 39,000 in 1987, down 26 per cent from 53,000 in 1975.The change occurred not because women were leaving agriculture but because they had switched to paid work or had become self-employed, the study found.As a percentage of all agriculture workers, unpaid family members accounted for 12 per cent of the total in 1987, down from 30 per cent in 1946.The study said the trend toward larger, more efficient farms and the disappearance of small family farms have hastened the demise of unpaid work.Reforms in matrimonial and tax laws have also been significant factors.Because of court rulings affecting the division of family assets in divorce cases, women today are more apt to identify themselves as business partners than unpaid workers in family enterprises, Duchesne says.Others have switched from unpaid to paid work as a result of a 1980 tax change allowing the owners of unincorporated businesses to claim the incomes of spousal employees as tax deductions, she adds.She also cites a third development."Changing economic conditions may have driven some women to seek paid jobs elsewhere if the salary they could earn was greater than the value of the la bor services they were providing in the family business.” personnel."We cannot produce airplanes to sit on a shelf," he said at a news conference held at the Toulouse headquarters of Aerospatiale, the European aeronautics consortium, The contract would have provided work for more than 300 people in the Canadair plant in the Montreal suburb of St-Laurent.Rocard clearly indicated earlier this week that his government is facing enormous budget constraints and would not consider the Canadair purchase until 1990.STILL OPTIMISTIC Bourassa remained optimistic, saying that the need for the planes will still exist in 1991), and that Canadair is the only producer.Canadair’s Royer agreed, adding that Bourassa's visit had been useful permitting some progress."We are very much further ahead than before the premier's visit," he told reporters.Bourassa told a dozen Quebec businessmen who participated in the Aerospatiale visit that the fu tore is in subcontracting.Bourassa said that where Airbus had initially projected the sale of 600 Airbus aircraft made by the Aerospatiale consortium it now appeared that there would be or ders for a further 1,000 aircraft."This is going to take subcontractors," he said "We have the opportunity to unite high technolgy in the bosom of the two French states.” Canadair has already received subcon tracts for work on the Airbus The Airbus and other planes produced by Aerospatiale are sold all over (he world.Responding to reporters' ques- Opening the money trail Mouvement takes fight against 178 to Quebec the 10 member organizations of the movement are to go to Quebec City to lobby members of the legislature when the session reconvenes.Nicole Boudreau, president of the St-Jean-Baptiste Society of Montreal, said at a news conference on Thursday the movement wants to send a clear message to the government.Fernand Daoust, secretary general of the Quebec Federation of Labor, also at the news conference, said many union members have shown a desire to mobilize and hold demonstrations of this kind.The most effective way to show one’s opposition to government policy, he said, is to organize demonstrations.Guy Bouthillier, spokesman for the movement, said the new law, passed by the legislature last month, must be abolished because it leads inevitably to integral bilingualism and because it is totally inapplicable.% RI.CORIMiKANT SIMI.ON James Church, who’ll turn 70 tomorrow, keeps the shovels the white stuff away for two other hanks in sidewalk path at the Commerce Bank in Lennoxville town and says he loves the snow, clear of snow.The spry Church, who farmed for 40 years, also Turn the page for more on coping with the snow.CEQ’s Pagé: Quebec/union talks far from over QUEBEC (CP) — The government has officially kicked off negotiations with the usually combative public service unions but Daniel Johnson, president of the Treasury Board, says he doesn’t think the next provincial election will be a factor in the talks.“I’m not concerned, quite frankly.I wouldn’t let the date of the election intervene in the quality of our offers and of a settlement,” Johnson told a news conference Thursday.He said there is no question of a “quick shuffle approach” whereby the government buys labor peace so the negotiations won't hang over an election campaign, expected in the fall.The government has offered public employees a four-per-cent raise in 1989 and wants a three-year contract.Last M a rch, the province offered the unions a one-year extension of their contracts with a four-per- cent wage increase which unions representing 41,000 employees have accepted.There remain 270,000 employees working under 74 collective agreements and represented mostly by the Quebec Teachers Union and Confederation of National Trade Unions, who have chosen to nego- tiate.lorraine Pagé, president of the teachersunion, said the parties are farther apart now than they were at the start of the last round of bargaining.She said the government’s appeals for flexibility suggest an attack on rights that the workers have already gained.lions Bourassa said he believes the merger of the giant Molson and O Keefe breweries at home would produce positive effects and generate investment.Bourassa said Molson was expected to invest $82 million and La-batt about $100 million (over three years) in Quebec.He did not comment on the number of jobs that could be lost as a result of the merger, saying he did not have all the facts."There is the possibility of expansion and this is more positive than withdrawing," Bourassa snapped He said lie does not believe that the move is linked to free trade because breweries were excluded from the deal.The premier continued to Zurich and will end lus 15-day European tour in Belgium.Wrestler convicted of hitting spectator QUEBEC (CP) Professional wrestler Jacques Rougeau was convicted of assault Thursday and ordered to pay $11,910 in damages and interest to a spectator he punched in the face during a 1986 match in Chicoutimi, Que.On Jan.26,1986, Rougeau and his brother Raymond had just entered the ring for a tag-team match when a man in the first row shot the wrestler in (he left eye with a blast from a water pistol, Quebec Superior Court was told.An enraged Rougeau climbed down from the ring and hit 21-year-old Denis Belley in the face causing the loss of two teeth and partial loss of feeling in his upper lip, the trial was told.Mr.Justice Ross Goodwin of Quebec Superior Court rejected Rougeau’s defence that he was provoked by the man, saying the viciousness of the attack was out of all proportion to any provocation.The judge also noted the victim was six feet tall and weighed 157 pounds, while Rougeau was six feet two inches tall and weighed 228 pounds.Angels sue Quebec after raid QUEBEC (CP) —The Hell’s Angel chapter from nearby St-Nicholas is suing Quebec’s justice minister and the provincial police for damages caused when a front-end loader was used to raid the gang’s clubhouse last October.The motorcycle gang submitted a statement of claim in Quebec Superior Court on Thursday asking for $157,597 in damages and interest relating to the raid in which the front-end loader drove a four-metre hole in a wall of the house.Police, who were looking for suspects in a drug case, fired cannis-ters of tear gas into the house forcing out the two lone occupants.The pair later told reporters they would have been happy to let the officers in if they had been asked.Hell’s Angel lawyer Jacques Bouchard said the police had overstepped their authority in the search.He said that although the search was done under a warrant, it represented an abuse of power that infringed on gang members’ rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.Acadians want distinct society status FREDERICTON (CP) — New Brunswick Acadians have no difficulty accepting a distinct society for francophones in Quebec, but they want a special status of their own.Acadians have been more or less shut out of the constitutional debate dominated by their francophone neighbors in Quebec, but they’ve elbowed their way back into the spotlight at public hearings in New Brunswick on the Meech Lake accord.Individuals and grouns renre- senting Acadian interests have told the legislature committee conducting the hearings it’s time to enshrine the principle of equal status for francophone New Brunswickers in Canada’s Constitution.Michel Doucet, president of the New Brunswick Society of Acadians, the main lobby group for the province’s approximately 250,000 francophones, said in an interview Thursday Acadians are hurt by the way they’re defined in Meech Lake The accord simply lumps Acadians together with all other French-speaking Canadians “present outside Quebec.” "We feel the Acadian community of New Brunswick is not merely present outside Quebec,” Doucet said during a break in the hearings.Doucet said there’s a growing fear among francophone New Brunswickers of the rising English backlash against French. m 2 -The RECORD—Friday.January 27, 198» The Townships fl^rr HSCOTQ ‘Never participated’ — Quebec Court Judge Léveillé Brome Lake police trials: Ex-sergeant Peter Stone cleared on assault charge GRANBY — Peter Stone, a former Town of Brome Lake policeman, was acquitted of a charge of assault in Sessions Court Thursday.Quebec Court Judge Claude Léveillé found Stone “never participated” in a beating along with Brome Lake ex-chief Alyre Thi reau.The case dated back to 1983 when Stone and former chief Thireau picked up Denis Larocque, of Sutton, and questioned him at the Sutton municipal police station concerning stolen goods from the Brome Lake area.Stone was earlier cleared of charges of theft of Larocque’s property (a chainsaw) and unlawful confinement of the suspect.The assault case was slated for jury trial in criminal division of Superior Court.Defence lawyer Thomas Walsh instead chose a Quebec Court trial Wednesday.Walsh and Crown Claude Melangon produced a transcript of Stone’s preliminary hearing, including their representations, as proof before Judge Léveillé.Walsh related that Stone was seated on a bench or windowsill when Thireau slapped the suspect.He said Stone suggested to Larocque it might be better if he talked, and that this was in trying to make things easier for the suspect.Melançon said all the court had to decide was whether Stone’s remarks were advice or a veiled threat.Judge Léveillé refused to hand down his decision Wednesday as Walsh had appealed the assault charge.Walsh served the court a notice Thursday asking the appeals court to desist, and the judge then made his ruling.“The proof revealed that Peter Stone never participated in the assault of Denis Larocque,” Judge Léveillé said, ordering his acquittal.The popular Stone, a former sergeant, has since left the Brome Lake police after pressure from the accusations grew un-liveable.He is now concentrating fulltime on his successful landscaping and masonry business in Knowlton.STILL THREE MORE Meanwhile Wednesday Paul Roy, another former Town of Brome Lake policeman, pleaded guilty to three counts of assault causing bodily harm and one of illegal confinement after he too had re-opted for trial before a Quebec Court Judge.Judge Claude Leveille ordered preparation of a pre-sentence report which was not contested by Crown attorney Claude Melançon.Sentencing was delayed to Mar.15.Finally former Brome Lake officer Pierre Laplante, charged with one count of assault causing bodily harm, also re-opted, and his case was continued to Feb.8.Cst.Denis Brazeau, still on the Brome Lake force, saw his trials, after re-option, delayed to Feb.13.Bedford district criminal court faces long list for jury trials Three on drug imports, two robberies, maybe one murder GRANBY (JM) - The 1989 term of the District of Bedford criminal assizes may prove to be one of the most active for jury trials in recent memory.Superior Court Justice Thomas Toth presided at the call of the role Wednesday and told Crown attorney Henry Keyserlingk and federal prosecutor Serge Cham-poux to advise him of which case will open the term on Feb.13.Defence lawyer Thomas Walsh, representing Dezonie-Desolin Ferguson-Johnson, told the court his client was hospitalized and could not appear.But Walsh said he was prepared to proceed in her case during the current term before an English-speaking jury on charges of conspiracy and illegal importation of cocaine in Philipsburg during 1987.bench warrant to keep Ferguson-Johnson before the court.Champoux and Donald Bisson-nette, who represents Ferguson-Johnson’s cousin Carline Ferron, a co-accused, set that case to proceed on Feb.28.Walsh and Champoux suggested the case should not require more than three or four days as the defence would make certain admissions.Justice Toth issued a John Edward Knight, another client of Walsh charged with illegal importation of restricted drugs at Philipsburg, switched for trial before a Quebec Court judge and his case was delayed to Feb.17.ENTERS IN CHAINS Prison inmate Georges Hamel, trussed hand and foot, told Justice Toth he wanted a jury trial and would act in his own defence.Hamel is accused of two charges of robbery with violence, one charge of breaking and entering a dwelling and theft, and one charge of asault causing bodily harm in Cowansville last summer.“I think the trial will take at least a week due to the absence of a lawyer," prosecutor Keyserlingk told Justice Toth.Hamel’s trial date will be set Feb.13.Hamel’s present sentence terminates in 1999.Keyserlingk failed to produce a new bill of indictment charging Georges Tringle with a charge of first degree murder in the stabbing death of Frank Royea in Sutton on Nov.2, 1988.Defence lawyer Donald Bisson-nette and Keyserlingk suggested the case might be settled before the next term of the assizes.The inquiring photographer: ‘Stop being so paranoid with each other’ How to solve Quebec’s linguistic debate?Learning the other’s language KNOWLTON — If all Quebecers spoke both English and French the province’s language troubles would probably disappear.At least that’s what six out of six Record readers polled by inquiring photographer Grant Simeon on Wednesday.“Bilingualism seems to be the solution.We must both learn to speak the other’s language.” The Question: What would you do to improve relations between English- and French-speaking Quebecers?The Answers : Leonard Parker, Knowlton: “1 recognize that language is a very emotional issue.I believe that we both should calm down first.I also hope that all our children will be bilingual.” George Coté, Brome Lake: “If we just treat each other as human beings first, language is such a secondary thing.Bilingualism is a sign of respect for each other’s culture.” language issue, 1 just mean that it should not be forced down people’s throats.” Delmar Page, Knowlton: “I would just make everything bilingual.” “That way a mutual respect could form between the two cultures.” dom of speech to both cultures.It takes both cultures to make the world turn.” “Also to wipe out all politics and let people operate on a more humanistic level.” “I am not trying to trivialize the FREEDOM OF SPEECH Carol Hadd, West Bolton ; “Free- Marsha St-Pierre, Mansonville: “I don’t see a problem on a person-to-person basis.Bilingualism is the way to go.” “Two languages should be the minimum number that a person should know.And both cultures should stop being so paranoid with each other.” Diane Marcoux, Mansonville: “I think that the problem lies in the heads of people.I think the way is to teach each group of people the other’s language.” “Once people know the language it will force people to talk to each other.” 1 -yI Beaudoin, Audet, Deslongchamps, Major on Order of Canada honor roll Four Eastern Townshippers on Governor General’s latest honor list From CP files OTTAWA — Four Eastern Townshippers are on the latest list of nominees and promotions in the country’s highest order.Laurent Beaudoin, president of Bombardier Inc., has been promoted to companion within the Order of Canada, the highest civic honor for Canadian citizens, along with constitutional expert Eugene For-sey, a retired senator, and Toronto medical researcher Louis Simino-vitch.Gov.Gen.Jeanne Sauvé announ- ced the list Thursday.Sauvé has also named 24 officers and 48 members to the order, 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GOOD/ SPORTS WEAR' o 63 YEAH, I GUESS YOU'RE RIGHT-.\ iBLiSaiSi • 'Jri.à HEY.YOU DONT SUPPOSE THEY HAVE A SWEEPS WEEK ON THE COMICS '^PAGE-i THATWAS CERTAINLY MY UNDERSTANDING.______/ m th-:.S Delmar Page.‘I would just make George Coté.‘Treat each other as Marsha St-Pierre.‘Both cultures Carol Hadd.‘ Wipe out all politics Diane Marcoux.‘The problem Leonard Parker.‘Bilingualism 1 everything bilingual.' human beings first.’ should stop being so paranoid.’ and let people operate.' lies in the heads of people.’ seems to be the solution.’ Original microfilmed at varying intensities because The RECORD—Friday, January 27, 1989—J The Townships #1__ UCCOTu Committee was unanimous on expulsions — Arnot B.U.dean: Nothing wrong with review procedure for part-time students By Rossana Coriandoli LENNOXVILLE — The chairman of the committee in charge of deciding which part-time students would be stopped from continuing their studies at Bishop's University says the Committee of Associate Deans followed all the procedures set by the university senate.A number of part-time students received notice two weeks ago that their registration had been cancelled and any tuition fees paid would be refunded after their academic performance was reviewed and considered to be unacceptable.The university senate last May passed a regulation to deal with part-time students whose academic standing is below the set standard.The expulsion notices came after the students had begun attending January classes and had bought the books required for each course.Several students sought the help of Bishop's ombudsman Michael Fox, who suggested they appeal to the committee, asking the associate deans to reconsider their decision.UPSET Ombudsman Fox and some of the students who appealed say they are upset — not at the committee's decision to expel them from school but at the procedures used.They say it is unfair that the university should have taken their tuition money, let them buy their books and begin attending classes before notifying them they cannot continue their studies.The students and their ombudsman also say they should have been allowed to be present while the committee made a decision on their appeals But Associate Deans chairman Colin Arnot said that since it was the deans’ committee which looked at the student appeals and not a separate committee, the procedures followed were not those of a tribunal “That's not the way the committee was established by the senate," Arnot said in an interview Thursday.Although he said he was not interested in rebutting Fox's or the students' complaints about how the associate deans dealt with the expulsions, Arnot said the committee's decisions were unanimous in each part-time student’s case.JUDGMENT Wednesday.Bishop’s principal Dr.Hugh Scott said the committee members made their decisions using their best judgment.He said the committee had no choice but to review the students' standing in January as that is when their marks become available.But he also said he and the committee will look into the re-c o m m e n d a t i o n s o m buds m a n Fox’s report concerning the procedures used But Arnot said it may not be easy to change the procedures followed by the committee.T think it’ll be difficult,’’ he said.According to Arnot, in the future there may not be as great a need to look at appeals by part time stu dents expelled for poor academic standing because students will be more aware of how the university deals with such situations."In the future it’ll be less of a surprise to other individuals,'" he said.Quebec has more important highway fish to fry — Pouliot Watch for a Lennoxville bypass— sometime around the turn of the century By Ann McLaughlin SHERBROOKE — As the Ministry of Transport sets out to end the traffic carnival in Montreal, hopes for a 410 South autoroute bypass around Lennoxville and Acot Township are close to being dashed.“It probably won’t be done before five to ten years,” says Ascot Township Mayor Bob Pouliot, whose taxpayers are most affected by the autoroute idea, devised last December by a committee of the Lennoxville-Ascot Chamber of Commerce.The committee presented a blueprint and video to the public of the two neighboring towns .A proposed 16-km route was presented, traced across Ascot, connecting the end of autoroute 410 at University boulevard to Route 108 near Alexander Galt High School.Though the proposal received hot and cold receptions from residents of Lennoxville and Ascot respectively, it looks as if neither will do battle for a while.BACK BURNER Pouliot said it would be “perfectly understandable” if the Lennoxville truck and traffic problem was slipped to the back burner for more pressing matters in the Quebec transport portfolio.“Repairing the Metropolitan Boulevard in Montreal is more important than building the 410 South and will definitely pass before any other project,” Pouliot said.“People in the Sherbrooke area know the ministry has to be rational in its spending,” he added.Extra effort by workers Waterville T.G.soon to be back on track?SHERBROOKE — An executive with the financially-troubled company Waterville T-G is confident the company can turn around its fortunes.A maker of weather stripping for the autombile industry, Waterville T-G has been leaking a lot of red ink on its bottom line.In the past two months, it estimates it’s lost $2 million.The company’s personnel manager, JeanPellerin, says Waterville T-G has been through rough times before, and “if everyone pulls together,” the manufacturer will again soon show a profit.Workers at the company are being asked to pull together in different ways.Pellerin said Wednesday.The 215 non-union employees have been asked to put in longer hours, at no extra pay.Pellerin said there’s been a good response with many people on the job before the normal starting time, and after the usual quitting time.UNION HELPING TOO When news that management was being asked to work more time for free hit the newspapers, the union sent out a strong message.Its president, Michel Du-charme, said the 925 union workers had already made seve- ral compromises over the past few months, and it would be too much to ask for more.Management did not ask them to work longer hours at no extra pay.But Pellerin said in a phone interview the union members were asked to make “an extra effort”.He said that’s met with a favorable response.He says union people have suggested ways of producing more products, and saving inputs.Pellerin said there’s no doubt in management’s mind that the company will be able to turn things around.Nevertheless Pouliot maintained that by keeping the proposal alive, the committee, which in eludes himself and Lennoxville Mayor Duncan Bruce, is making important steps in preparing for the future of the two towns GOOD TO PLAN IT “It is important to plan for the route today so we can be ready when it becomes a priority with government.Planning for the longterm puts us on the right track,” Pouliot said.Despite protests from citizens who reside in the path of the autoroute, Pouliot said the proposal stands as is.He added that the route is a better alternative than the last one drafted by the transport ministry 18 months ago.“The route may annoy some people but it has to go somewhere, we can’t attach it to the clouds,” Pouliot said.PETITION And some residents are trying to make sure that is where the auto route will go — into the clouds.Michael Grayson of Mitchell Road has begun circulating a peti tion and says he can easily muster 50-75 signatures from Hunting ville.Grayson said he doesn’t see the need for a new highway, saying that much of the traffic through Lennoxville today will be eliminated once the 410 North is completed around the northeast side of Sherbrooke.St'François MNA and regional cabinet ‘godmother’ Monique Gagnon-Tremblay will meet with bypass committee next week.“The people who made this proposai have not evaluated the traffic problem thoroughly.There is a truck problem now in Lennoxville but when the 410 North is extended to join the 112 near Ascot Corner in the next few years, a large chunk of traffic will be rerouted,” Grayson said.Grayson added that his petition is not alone among the disenchan ted.“There is another one going around in Viewpoint too,” he said, warning that there too citizens are preparing for the future.Robert Pouliot.Good to plan for bypass but no big rush.“Though a highway project doesn't happen overnight, the chamber of commerce and the town councils can rest assured we won’t lie down and let them bull doze our property,” Grayson said The outcome of the Lennoxville-by-pass proposal may be known Tuesday, when the chamber of commerce committee meets St-François MNA and regional cabi net godmother Monique-Gagnon Tremblay, who will be taking a break from a parliamentary committee.It * Mother Bluster: On the day Mother Nature dumped 10 cm of snow on the Townships.The Record caught up with local residents to see how they were coping.Record carrier Patrick Martin, 13, was making his rounds in Lennoxville at a leisurely II a.m.because he was off school this week.Usually, the cheerful Martin delivers his newspapers before school.Joyce Ross wasn't about to let wind and snow prevent her from shovelling the porch.Sledding made for two: Jonathan Leblond, 14, leads this frosty slide down a Lennoxville hill while good friend Jacob Martin-Malus, 13, hangs on with his legs.Jacob said the added weight of two made the sled slide better on new snow.This heavy-duty plow had a busy day, here seen taking care of business on Lome Street.Even the plow needed two tries to get up this hill.On a blustery day these three found refuge behind a Rock Forest mailbox while waiting for the arrival of friends.From left, Jacques Groleau, 12, Marie Helene René, 12, both of Rock Forest and Julie Rodrigue, 12, of Sherbrooke planned on taking advantage of the accumulation by building snowforts.Jacques was enjoying things so much he’s in here twice k KM OKI) moTOS/ORANl SIMI ON 4Ü v : LOOK FOR THE BR0M0NT 25th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL ON TUESDAY the text is printed on greyish or colour background. 4—The HECOED—Friday, January 27, 1H8H #1.-foj HOCOXtl The Voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 Editorial Laws don’t make a society During all the talk about beautifying Lennox-ville and protecting its heritage, not a word has crept out of the mouths of the town’s residents.Have they no opinion about what direction they want their town to take?Or can’t they be bothe red to speak up on the subject?Town council has passed bylaw 425-01 this week to control construction work on part of Queen Street so that it will fit in with existing patrimonial architecture.The new’ bylaw restricts the height of buildings and additions, ma terials for cornices, the slope of roofs and the number of windows per house.It also restricts to clay or red bricks as the materials used on building exteriors.All very nice, and very good intentions.But this just doesn't sound like enough to protect the town’s historical buildings.It also doesn’t explain how the regulations will be enforced, or how people who want to construct or renovate their homes in Lennoxville will get advice on how to follow the regulations.Certainly, the onus of the responsibility will rest with the building inspector.But that is just one man, not the voice of the residents.t itixens must get involved in this important aspect of heritage preservation.It’s not enough to leave it up to the politicians.Lennoxville must follow the lead of such towns as Knowlton and North Hatley, who with citizen participa tion, have managed to encourage and help residents to follow the building regulations and maintain the towns’ historical facade.In those towns, for example, citizen’s committees advise town council on proposed construction in town and review all requests for building and changes to property.If these committees don’t feel a proposed project will fit in with the style of the town, they recommend alterations.It is with such citizen participation that people can make a difference.Laws don’t make a society, but rather it is the way they are enforced that do.ROSSANA CORIANDOLI Deaf students want sign-language used AMHERST, N S.(CP) Vocational students at Atlantic Canada’s main school for the deaf returned to classes today after the school agreed to look into their complaints.Classes in the vocational section of the Atlantic Pro vinces Resource Centre for the Hearing-Handicapped were shut down Wednesday when about 15 of the 33 vocational students set up barricades outside the buil ding.The strike did not affect the academic section of the residential school, which has a combined enrolment of 300 students.A committee of the four student-council executives and four administration officials, including school director Phyllis Cameron was formed to discuss the problems The students’ main complaint was that teachers are not using sign language They say only three of 45 instructors know how to sign, and that’s because those three are deaf Ability to sign should be mandatory for all teachers, they said Susan Madnnis, student council president, said the strike was launched to protest the school’s lack of ac tion on 24 complaints.Maclnnnis, with the assistance of a sign interpreter, read the complaints, WANT DEAF TEACHERS Students want more deaf teachers, she said They want a professional interpreter at the school at all times, and they want outmoded courses and voational equiponient to be modernized so deaf students can compete on an equal footing in today's job market.The students claim the school's high-school certificate is not accepted by universities.Students say the lack of signing skills among teachers is preventing them from getting a proper education "The teachers are oral and us deaf kids can’t hear the words,” Madnnis said.“So when the teacher is giving (the lesson) in speech, deaf students do not understand.” Maolnms said that while many teachers know sign language, they are awkward using it Elizabeth Doull, a Halifax resident who was a teacher trainee at the school and travelled to support the students agreed with Maclnnis.She said she was amazed so few teachers at the school could sign “It is important the teachers sign because it is essential for general knowledge,” she said.“Deaf people use ASL (American Sign Language) all of their lives.Why not in the education system?” Did you know that.\ DOG'S BIBLE Dogs are mentioned 3!) times in the Bible Cats aie never mentioned.GOLDEN SEAS More than 30 patents have been issued for inventions de lined to extract gold from sea water SHORTEST VERSE The shortest verse in the Bible is John 11:35.breads I “Jesus wept ' I ADOLPH DROPPED The male name most frequently changed in court between 1015 and 1080 was Adolph.I SI D-CAK STREETS In 1087,128,733 ears were abandoned on the streets of New York City Letters Better to provide jobs in peaceful industries An open letter to Brian Mulroney, Prime Minister Dear Mr Mulroney, I am writing to you concerning Canada's purchase of nuclear-powered submarines.The heart of the arms race is the nuclear attack subs.Both NATO and the Warsaw Pact have similar models These are designed to destroy missile firing subs.The British anil French versions are noisy and easy to track.So why do we not buy them from the United States or the Soviet Union and get better technology and service?The maintenance of sovereignty is not a military mission but a diplomatic one which should be ap pealed to the United Nations if necessary Surface ships can collide to en force sovereignty.What happens when two submarines disagree?In wartime neither NATO nor the U.S.needs these Canadian subs and diesel subs have been found which could on ly be as a part of the Forward Mari- time Strategy of the U.S.Canada may modernise its fleet but nuclear subs are totally inappropriate.Why should there be Soviet subs under the ice when missiles could be fired at North America from the safety of the Barents Sea?There is this arms race because many people still believe it (and a war) can be won.There are signs that the race may have peaked but there are still many dangers ahead It is believed that the cost of the Canadian subs will reach $24 billion.This amount of money could be better spent on peaceful purposes.At the Canadian Nuclear Association annual meeting in Winnipeg, the Minister of Defence said that Canada needs nuclear submarines to prop up the sagging nuclear industry in Cana da and prevent a “brain drain” of nu clear scientists from the country.In fact Atomic Energy of Canada (AECL) will be the likely winner of the nuclear reactor contract for the sub marines, if that plan ever gets approval It is estimated that the nuclear propulsion aspect of the submarines represents about ten percent ($500 million) of the total value of the project, excluding fuel costs.I understand that your government is eliminatng competition over who builds the reactor to keep public concern about the reactor safety to a minimum.A full-blown contest could lead to advertising compaigns citing safety concerns about opponents' construction abilities.Many environmentalists are concerned about radioactive waste disposal in the ocean.It has been reported that nevertheless your government is planning disposal of nuclear wastes in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.AECL has established a “Maritime Propulsion Unit” in Ottawa to assist in the evaluation of the potential venders of the nuclear sub-design.Considering the requirements for Canadian content (at least two thirds must be built in Canada) the sub project could generate substantial employment in AECL and the private sector of the nuclear industry However, providing jobs in the nuclear and submarine construction industry will not elimi nate the unemployment problem in Canada.It would be better that your government provide jobs in peaceful industries.I call on your government for a full public review of the environmental consequences of the proposed nuclear submarine purchase.I urge that the government seriously reconsiders its plan to buy a fleet of nuclear-propelled submarines.I thank you for attending to this letter Respectfully, Vilhelmo Vanlenho R.R.3 Cookshire Misleading information Protests must be peaceful To the Editor A syndicated AP article which appeared in tlit Tuesday, Jan.17 Record gave the false impression that potato chips are healthier than apples.Potato chips are a high fat, salty food and tasty because of this.However, many of our “lifestyle diseases” such as heart disease, cancer, hypertension, diabetes etc., are linked to our high fat, high sodium, low fibre diets.Apples are low in fat, low in sodium, and high in fibre in comparison and by far better for one’s health.It is unfortunate that such patently misleading information occasionally slips into our papers.Yours truly, Janet Weber Professional Dietician Lennoxville Dear Editor: With so many people suffering injustice in our world it may seem rather petty and selfish to complain about a small loss of freedom of expression.However when it comes to human rights there are no small issues! Any “Bill of Rights”, which allows a government to deny those rights, is not a Bill of Rights! Any constitution, which gives spe- cial or “distinct” status to one segment of humanity and not to all others, is in violation of the principle of equality ! Please don’t misunderstand me.I am not anti-French.The Notwithstanding Clause can be used against French speaking Canadians just as easily as it is being used against English-speaking Canadians.A recent ad in the Record, requesting aid for Armenian earthquake victims quoted, “the real road which leads to a world community where justice and peace reign without borders among all people and on all continents, is the road of solidarity, of dialogue, and of universal brotherhood: it’s the only possible road.” John Paul II Take a few minutes to quietly think about what this means for Quebecers and Canadians.It has been said that when the law of the land is unjust then the only place for an honest person is in jail.Nevertheless out protests must be peaceful and non-violent or we ourselves destroy the meaning of the equality and brotherhood for which wc strive.Write letters to our elected officials.Remind them that one of their most important duties is to safeguard the rights of ALL the people.Remind them of this motto from Fi em h history: Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité - -Freedom, Equality, Broinerhood.This is what we really need.It’s the only possible road! Respectfully yours, Fred Williams Bolton Centre Wrong ship Sir: I enjoyed reading about the Cana dian Corvettes with Eastern Townships names, but I observed one error.I served in HMCS Knogamy (a corvette) with HMCSChambly in convoy SC 42, and later in one of the old "four stacker” destroyers so l am quite familiar with both ships.Your picture of a Canadian Corvette returning from convoy duty is in fact an old “four stacker ", anil if I read the pennant number on the side correctly as I 81, it is HMCS St Croix.Yours truly.Laurie Eden Knowlton Most consulates in Canada maintain low a profile By Stephen Thome TORONTO (CP) — There are few books in the “library” of the Malaysian Consulate.But there are three bicycle tires, a package of condoms and a giant elastic band.Also a toilet plunger, cooking oil, prawn flavored crackers, a six metre length of Christmas-tree lights, shovels, shoes and toothpicks.All are products of the tiny jungle country in the South China Sea.Like the 359 other consulates across Canada fifi of them in Toronto — the Malaysian mission is intended mainly to serve its citizens in this country and to promote wares from back home.Within the consulate's walls — decorated with more than 100 species of butterflies, a pair of three-horned scarabs and one giant fly — one can seek protection from arrest and expect exemption from search and seizure.But until a group of self-described “Earth spiritualists” dressed as trees recently protested logging in Malaysia's rain forests, few people — even In the downtown neighborhood — knew the consulate was on the 12th floor of a building facing the posh King Edward Hotel FEW BIG PARTIES Toronto’s consular community is a large but relatively closed one.Unlike those who serve at the 102 embassies in Ottawa and whose main business is diplomacy, consular officials don’t attend many lavish parties.Instead, this dutiful corps of aspiring ambassadors appears content to go about its work processing travel documents, wining and dining prospective investors, and pushing products.Are Canadians ready to trade their potato chips for prawn-flavored crackers?"Actually, there's been a good response to those," says Kuti Kander, the Malaysian vice-consul.SECURITY TIGHT Just down the street, on the 24th floor of an office tower off Bay Street, is the South African Consulate It has no products on display Security is tight One wall of consul Waldemar Zas trail's office is covered in pictures; another has a colorful montage depic ting the campaigns of the Royal Cana dian Dragoons, who fought in the Boer War at the turn of the century.A picture of a brass hat badge — still worn by the regiment comme- morates the day a springbok leaped from the underbrush, alerting the Canadian troops to an impending attack.The South Africans in Toronto are not invited to many functions and, when they are, they rarely show up.“1 have watched the situation deteriorate,” says Zastrau, who has been in Canada almost eight years.“Speaking as a diplomat, I find it very sad.” HAPPY ISLAND A few blocks away, at the Grenada mission, consul Mark Isaac is selling happiness A large coconut on the front desk is labelled Coconut.“Grenada isn't as big as Scarborough," explains Isaac, 37, who has spent 17 years away from his native Caribbean island.“It is a very fertile land, full of fruits and vegetables.Fish is everywhere The sun shines, “Mass starvation, slums and so on — we do not have such things in Grenada That makes people happy." Across the street is the U.S.Consulate, a three-storey fortress protected by concrete and steel barriers, X-ray machines and 24-hour surveillance by the RCMP.It is overrun by visa, immigration and refugee applicants."They're lined up every day," says Ralph Nider, chief of consular ser- vices.MANY PROTESTS Iranians, peaceniks and Croatian nationalists have been among those who have marched outside the U S.building last year.But in Canada, protesters are “very well-organized," says administrative secretary Jean nie Richardson.“They walk in a straight line, they get their point across and then they leave." At the Indonesian Consulate, vice consul Abdul Karim Abdullah laughs when asked if he has ever been besie ged by demonstrators.“We get together with our students on Saturday nights," he says.He piles a table high with pamphlets, brochures and books about the island chain and its pro ducts: oils, teas, textiles, ceramics and at least five varieties of canned pineapple He hands over a copy of the Indonesia Development News, which has an article about a new bullfrog farm in Batam.It seems there’s a big market for bullfrog meat in Europe and the Indonesians are harvesting 450 kilo grams of legs a month."You want to go to lunch?” asks Abdullah.I Th«* RECORD—Friday, January 27.1889—.> History Rccdrü Brome Lake 1867: 'Summer residence of some of the Montreal bon-ton' Growth of the village of Knowlton: Millsite to resort, Part two J.M.LEFEBVRE, .'N’otary Public, Twenty-six year old Lucius Seth Huntington came from Compton to practice law in Knowlton in 1853.The Grand Trunk had just begun hauling passengers and freight through the Eastern Townships between Montreal and Portland and was bringing boom times to towns like Richmond, Sherbrooke and Coaticook.The longest settled and most populous townships, however had been passed by, were under-represented in government and stagnating.To change all that, Huntington joined forces with Paul Holland Knowlton and Hiram Sewell Foster to begin the Advertiser and Eastern Townships Sentinel.Their prospectus was dated December 1, 1855; “Possessing a magnificent Country, rich in abundant resources of Agriculture, Manufacturing and Mineral wealth, as yet unwritten and almost undeveloped, the people of the Townships are far from enjoying that relative moral and political importance in the country, to w'hich, from their numbers, intelligence, and increasing wealth, they are justly entitled.“Our Journal is not the offspring of private speculation.Some few gentlemen saw the necessity for a publication of the proposed character.and have provided for it the first year ; not doubting that, if true to itself, it may, during that time, earn a reputation which shall give it the position of a self supporting, and even remunerative enterprise.“As independent journalists we may have the misfortune to differ with some of our readers in opinion.We do not believe that, in consequence, our paper will lose support.The fearofsucha result in small communities has usually led to the publication of neutral and comparatively worthless journals.Not to disparage others, but to sustain our own position, we affirm, that the newspaper press, to be useful as an organ of public opinion, must be free, fearless and untrammelled.” SS & C RAILWAY All this elliptical prose gave notice that Huntington intended to sound off on controversial subjects with all the arrogance of youth —-hardly a bright prospect for a country weekly — and both Knowlton and Foster soon distanced themselves from the project.Hunting-ton found another champion in Asa Kelknap Foster of Waterloo and was appointed secretary of his Stanstead, Shefford & Chambly Railroad.That line was chartered in 1853 to run steel over the old stagecoach route and link the Connecticut & Passumpsic at Newport to Montreal.But Chambly wasn’t interested and it never did reach Stanstead.Only Shefford gave it vigorous support and when Foster became involved it was plain that Waterloo would get the line and leave Knowlton as a backwater.Huntington, therefore, moved his year-old newpaper there in 1857, renamed it the Waterloo Advertiser and gave his old presses to J.B.E.Dorion to begin Le Défricheur at L’Avenir.Dorion hired a promising young editor in Montreal who’d been advised to move to the country for the sake of his lungs — Wilfred Laurier.REGISTRY OFFICE The Canada Directory of 1857-58 gives Knowlton a population of “about 200.” “The Registry office is held here,” it continues.“There is a daily stage from St.Johns, 45 miles, fare $2.25; and the stage from Waterloo, 10 miles, fare 50g, passes through tri weekly to Stanstead Plain, 30 miles, fare $1.25.” These stage coaches stopped at the Knowlton Hotel, Albert Kimball, proprietor.Kimball also served as the village postmaster since the post office opened in 1851 and gave the place its name.Paul Holland Knowlton was listed as “town mayor and warden”.Hiram S.Foster, registrar, Luke M.Knowlton.farmer, and Moses Gilman, also a farmer, were all listed as Justices of the Peace.TANNERY Israel England had opened his Bernard Epps tannery and there were now three stores — J.C.& N.Pettes, William H.Stone’s and David McLa-chlan’s.THe Anglican Church had been erected in 1843 and Rev.Robert Lindsay presided.The Knowlton Academy was in full swing with R.W.Land as principal and his wife as “preceptress.” There were blacksmiths, a harnessmaker, a cobbler, carpenters and cabinet makers besides the grist and saw mills.In short, Knowlton was just a charming, isolated and self-sufficient frontier village clustered about the millpond and belonging more to the 18th century than the industrial 19th.But when the railroad finally reached Waterloo in 1861.that independent isolation ended and Montreal’s wealthy discovered the charm.“A very pretty village.said the 1867 Eastern Townships Gazetteer.“The population is estimated at 275.” BIDS FAIR.“Near the head of the lake is situated KNOWLTON, a place which bids fair to become a permanent summer residence of some of the Montreal bon ton; and certainly a more sequestered and yet accessible spot could scarcely be had.Access is had from Montreal by rail to Waterloo, and thence five miles by daily stage.“The fishing in the place is magnificent; and for shooting the ample cover afforded by the dense growth of reeds at its outlet, with here and there a still deep pool hemmed in with willows and low-shrubs.barely admitting passageway for a dug-out canoe to enter, till the lake suddenly expands, showing its surface covered with duck and teal.— altogether make it a most delightful retreat.” PROSPERITY The buzz of prosperity was already beginning to drown out the creak of the old waterwheel.Vircel Chamberlin had a butter tub factory; George Robb began building carriages.Erastus Mills & Son managed the grist and saw mills.There was a new Wesleyan Methodist Church, another hotel, the American, a pair of lawyers and even two physicians.“The Circuit Court for the county is held here quarterly, and a Commissioner's Court monthly,” said the Gazetteer.IA Commissioner’s Court was for small claims.) “A telegraph office was recently established in the place."Battalion Drill Sheds are being erected for the volunteers, Knowlton being the headquarters of the Destrict of Bedford Infantry Force, under the command of Lt.Col.Dunkin.The erection of these sheds reflects great credit upon the municipality.” DUNKIN ACT Christopher Dunkin, commander of the Bedford Rangers, was born of well-to-do parents in London and taught Latin and Greek at Harvard University before moving to Montreal in 1837 and joining a newspaper.That gave him an interest in law and politics ; he became legal counsel for Richmond's St.Francis College, defeated J.B.E.Dorion in the 1857 elections, then became member for Brome in 1862.Two year’s later he sponsored the local option law that brought prohibition to the Townships under the “Dunkin Act”.Dunkin’s oppponents — and they were legion — called him “a skinn-ny little bag of bones”.He was steadfastly opposed to Confederation (as were Huntington and Foster) and made the longest speech against it of any member—talking for two solid days.Only three coun ties in all Quebec ever adopted the Dunkin Act.Brome was foremost.SOUTH EASTERN Christopher Dunkin became pre-sident of the South Eastern Railway which finally linked Knowlton to Waterloo by its Drummond & Arthabaska branch in 1876.Albert Kimball’s old stage house was proudly renamed the Railroad Hotel and the village population more than doubled.“The present prosperity of the place will compare favorably with that of any other village in the townships,” said the Eastern Townships Gazetteer and Directory for 1875-76."New and extensive steam works, for the manufacture of furniture, and general wood work, giving employment to about fifty workmen, have been recently-erected by Mr.Joseph Lefebvre, and are a great acquisition to the village.There is a home here for emigrant children, where they are properly cared for until employment is obtained." LONDON’S POOR In 1865, a 23 year old evangelist, Annie Macpherson began working among London’s huddled poor where eighty per cent of the children died before their fifth birthday.In 1869, she published a pamphlet entitled "Emigration; the only remedy for chronic pauperism in the East of London" “We who labour here are tired of relieving misery from hand to mouth and also heartsick of seeing hundreds of families pining away for want of work and when from the shores of Ontario the cry is heard “Come over and we will help you.” In 1870, she sailed for Montreal with 100 boys, placed 23 on Quebec farms and the rest in Ontario where the town of Belleville had given her a distributing home.Second and third shipments of children followed within four months SWITCHED Annie’s sister, Mrs.Louise Birt, did similar work among Liverpool’s poor and brought over 600 children to Nova Scotia between 1873 and 1876.Then she switched operations to the Eastern Townships and opened the Knowlton Distributing Home with Miss E J Barber as superintendent.In 1877.Miss Mieklejohn came down from Quebec to take over the job and remained for 26 years.“It was a great source of strength,” wrote Mrs.Birt, “to have a lady in charge on the Canadian side thoroughly conversant with Canadian customs and climate, and also of a practical nature, and endowed with courage for any emergency.” HABITANT POET In 1886, William Henry Drummond bought the practice of a retired physician in Knowlton and moved to the house on Main Street later owned by Austin Pettes and later still by L’Estrienne restaurant.He was already writing the dialect verses that would make him famous and became something of a local favorite before moving back to Montreal in 1888.Austin Pettes, son of J.C., was mechanically inclined and began tinkering with telephones soon after their invention When Bell Telephone came to Knowlton in 1887, they found Austin alredy had a sys- Dcputy Ri'jjistrar Brome County, Deputy Clerk Circuit and Magistrate's Court s, etc.KII0WLT0II.P.Q.R.N.ENGLAND & CO„ ©HHBBAÏi MHBOBAHTS.H-iao-wltori, r*.C?., W.ENGLAND.LUKE L.KNOWLTOV.HOUSE, A.K ÏCXMBALL, Proprietor,, tern of five home-made telephones linking the Pettes’ general store with the homes of his father, his uncle, his sister and his brother-in law, W.W.Lynch.Bell established an exchange in Knowlton and hired Austin to manage it.MURDER "This is one of the most charming villages in the Eastern Townships," says the Directory for 1888-89 when the population had climbed to 8(H).“It is situated on Brome Lake, on the South Western Railway line running from Sutton Junction to Sorel.It is the County Town of Brome and has become fa mous as a popular summer resort.The pure bracing mountain air and the excellent fishing in the lake attract visitors from far and near.The hotels and boarding houses are large and commodious.” The stationmaster at Sutton Junction was also the president of the Brome County Temperance Alliance.W.W.Smith.He crusaded so actively to eradicate the last trickles of booze in the county that exasperated hotel keepers finally hired a thug to murder him.On the night of July 7, 1894.as Smith napped on a bench in his station, he was suddenly beaten over the head with a length of lead pipe.He grappled with his assailant and fought him off.The thug fled into the darkness leaving his hat and his piece of pipe behind.Not everyone was sympathetic.An anonymous letter in the Knowlton News and Brome County Advocate said; “This whole Smith business has a “cheap John" flavor whch makes careful men view it askance.Who witnessed the assault on Smith?Nobody.He tells of being struck three times on the head with a piece of lead pipe, weighing some four pounds, and has in evidence the terrible weapon Did his person bear evidence of this murderous assault ?No.All who saw him in the early morning following the alleged assault were surprised that he bore no marks of the terrible struggle for life through which he claims to have passed.Why, one blow from such a weapon as he exhibits would have crushed his head as if it were an egg shell, yet he claims to have sus tained three blows and is alive to tell of it! Shades of Ananas and Munchausen!" Nevertheless, the assault was real enough and outraged Alliance members tracked the assailant to Massachusetts and brought him back for trial He confessed to being hired by local hotelkeepers and all were hauled before Judge W.W.Lynch, pled guilty to common assault and were each gi ven a month in jail.BICYCLES By 1898,Love//’s Business, Pro fessional and Farmer's Directory of the Eastern Townships could ac cord Knowlton a population of 1200 — six times what it had been just forty years earlier.“The chief town of Brome County is pleasantly situated near the head of Brome Lake, and on the Sutton Junction and Drummond-ville branch of the C.I’.R., 60 miles from Montreal and 10Vi miles from Waterloo.It contains 3 churches, Episcopal, Roman Catholic and Methodist, 1 telegraph office, saw mill, grist mill, several factories, 2 hotels, 15 stores, 1 printing office, lace leather and hemlock tanned sole leather tannery, and telephone office.Knowlton is the summer residence of a number of Montrealers." Austin Pettes, who’d brought Knowlton the telephone, had also brought it electric lights and over at G.M.Patterson’s general store, you could now buy one of those newfangled bicycles.This isolated frontier village had reached the 2