Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 18, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba 2 Winnipeg free february 1980 team sets world dog Derby record by Bob Lowery Winnipeg free press the Pas Peter norbergs team of alaskan Indian huskies from Tuk continued its record a flashing Pace saturday to win the 47th running of 150kilometre world dog Derby Roddy a 75yearold trapper and Musher from tailed norbergs huskies the greatest dog team Ive Ever seen Garrick finished third in the world Derby in behind famous mushers Emil Godard and Earl i worked with dogs All my life and Ive never seen a team to match nor Garrick on the first 50kilometre Lap thurs norbergs time of smashed the existing record of set by Art of in on each of the two successive 50kilometre Norberg was Well under Allens and finished with a three Day total of this was More than 30 minutes ahead of Ray of Hazel who finished Bob it the was and Tom of Taylor was Nineteen of the 23 starters completed the Norberg praised his Lead especially he said the dog forced the Pace throughout the and was razor Sharp on All the his formula for developing Champion teams is simple lots of and Good a Foreman with dome Petroleum at Tuktoyaktuk during the late summer and Early his wife and the team Are sponsored by the company during the Winter racing the Manitoba which is run concurrently with the Derby for provincial was won by with Jack of Star finishing a Kinsman club representative responsible for the race said a total of is awarded in prize Money for the the Manitoba championship and other norbergs purse was plus the lab bats Cook took Home and Mcphail also for his placing in the Derby and the Manitoba Tony Commodore of the Pas won the 20kilometre freight race in Dale Scott of the the Pas was second and Murdoch Carrier of Cumberland House was in the King Tapper Walter Koshel of the Pas successfully defended his it was the eighth time he has won the coveted Koshel placed first in the pole the pack Squaw wrestling and Snowshoe race in the 16event in second place was Albert Ballan of who won the pulp Woods Wing and and the Frog calling trapper Billy Cook of the Pas Indian band was winning the Goose and Moose As Well As the muskrats in Napoleon of Cumberland won the log throwing and flour packing he carried 814 pounds of this was the toughest King trap reunion Sparks memories of life on trap lines pers Competition Ive Ever been Koshel his prize Money totalled the Queen trapper Competition was won by Margaret constant of the the Pas Indian band the Junior title went to Billy Ducharme of the Debbie Hatch and Jackie both of the tied of the Junior lady trapper Twenty Earold Shelly Young was crowned 1980 fur she has lived in and the and is currently employed Anthonys she plans to become a registered Bob Lowfry Winnipeg Cree press the Pas sooner or later the trails of most northerners and an increasing number of easterners and westerners Cross at the annual North Ern Manitoba trappers festival at the it happened last week to two Veteran trappers who had lost track of one another for almost As far As they could 85 year old Silas constant of the Pas Indian band and 75yearold Roddy Garrick of Wabowden last set eyes on one another in after they had completed a Canoe trip with a treaty Garrick said a treaty party consisted of an Indian agent who paid a head to every woman and child on the nine Indian reserves they a medical doctor who made an annual inspection of medical an ramp officer and an and the Indian the trips were taken in 22foot they began Early in june and hopefully were to end in the route taken by constant and Garrick Lead up the Saskatchewan River to Cumberland Lac la Ronge and All in Sas it continued to the Chur chill the Reindeer right up to the upper end of the Bro Chet the party then moved South to Island Falls and knew country Well Over this part of the constant took charge of the party because he knew the country from the route continued into Garricks territory and he took from the canoes and supplies were Portage five Kilometres from the Churchill to the Burntwood River and then to Nelson split Lake and Landing where the party boarded the train to the we took a lot of responsibility on our Garrick we had those valuable people to look after and an awful pile of the year before Garrick joined con Stant on the expedition in a Canoe was but after we got there was never another Gar Rick both he and constant say the Tough est part of the entire journey was a 50kilometre stretch Between Sturgeon Landing and Beaver both in the party had to make its Way upstream through a series of 40 took full Effort we had Light Evinrude motors on our but going up those rapids took All the motor and paddle Power we could put Garrick both men agreed that the reason for their seven Accident free years be tween 1933 and 1940 was their respect for water and their ability to read you got to be Able to look at bad water and know where the currents Garrick constant we went through Many hard times and Happy times the hard he were mainly going up difficult portages didst seem to bother either Garrick recalls that canoes Only weighed 150 pounds and one Man could carry them on his he also said that in his Good old Days on several he carried pounds of flour on his Back for a distance of about 30 metres in festival the modern Day flour packers carry about 800 to a pounds for about four the Happy times they remembered were the jokes and tales told around campfires and the festivals which took place after treaty Money was during the constants family grew to eight four of whom Are still by the latest he has 30 grandchildren and 70 great Garrick has four of seven children living and 12 longtime trappers Silas constant left and Roddy Garrick recall times they spent together in the North trapping is still dear to their constant recalled a year when he caught 800 Garrick remembered catching but Selling them for ohly 30 cents still Active on his trap last year Garrick caught 27 135 Beaver and 40 constant kept trapping until three years when decided it want Safe for him to the Only Way they could keep their father from trapping was to hide his its a great life out fishing and helping other people to find their Way it was often very but it was the Only Way i could feed my constant 3rd fat torn weather our mistake a Story in Early editions saturday said wrongly that Carolyn a 25yearold Secretary at the was the Winner of the women flour packing contest at the Manitoba trappers the Winner in Madie Sayies of Leaf Reimer staff favors cart about 180 Reimer express lines workers have chosen the Canadian brotherhood of transport and general workers As their bargaining Union staff representative Al Cerelli said saturday the workers voted for the Union by about a 2tol Sean Williamson talented singing guitarist for Sale Cedar log Home St vital replacement will sell for will consider renting owner 2578476 Winfield rea1ty is Well located to serve you City wide commercial a warehouse 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