Winnipeg Free Press

Saturday, December 21, 1991

Issue date: Saturday, December 21, 1991
Pages available: 148
Previous edition: Friday, December 20, 1991

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 21, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba I i i n grand opening f Diamond specials to men to choose from Loose pret 4350 set Millet 3775 6650 3275 3000 3900 Zimmy diamonds Rihl Grant at Kenaston 1rr not acc of Street Nam change take not Rife that the City of Winnipeg bylaw has changed the name of he following Street to Amanda namely discovery As he same is shown on plans of Survey of River lots 16 and 17 of the Parish of the in registered in the Winnipeg land titles office As 24007 and 24282 and ambassador namely All that portion of Amanda As he same is shown on plans of Survey of part of River lots 15 to 18 of the Parish of in registered in the Winnipeg land titles office As 24007 and which lies Between the straight productions southerly of the Eastern and Western limits of Block in said plan Fleet found buried near ready to transport Royal souls Winnipeg free press Home delivery 6977001 careers looking for a better Job careers every for Home delivery 6977001 associated press Cairo a Fleet of Royal said to be ancient Egypt has been found buffed Kilometres from the a discovery that will help penetrate the unknown world of Egypt first american and egyptian archaeologists discovered the 12 Large wooden boats in september and october at an ancient burial ground 450 Kilometres South of egyptian officials first disclosed the discovery this after examining a report from the experts said the boats which Are is to 18 metres Long Are about years Egypt earliest Royal ships and among the earliest boats found they say the ships were probably meant for so they could trans port the souls of the we never expected to find such a especially so far from the said David the expedition Leader and curator of the egyptian Section at the University museum of the University of Pennsylva Oconnor has worked at Abydos since for the last seven years at a previously excavated but abandoned site called the Northern Ceme working with the egyptian antiquities his team from the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University Aims to learn More about Egypt earliest the period ended in from earliest Abydos was known for monuments honouring ancient Egypt god of Resur the Oconnor were found 13 Kilometres from the each encased in a mud Brick coffin and gingerly placed inside a pit that at least off every Ual Pant now 50 off Al cloth outerwear in the store Ore ancient priests inserted pottery offerings into and covered with mud bricks and the buried boats probably never sailed the Nile but were built to serve As magical vehicles to transport dead pharaohs through the suns rays by the starry skies by it int known yet exactly owned the evidence of at least 12 pharaohs monuments have been found in the boats were integral to the ancient a River they simple boats to Cross canals and Hunt and Shorter and less elaborate non Royal boats also about years were found in two cemeteries South of at Sankara and Egypt greatest ancient boat is the Barge of pharaoh discovered in 1954 at the foot of Cheops great Pyramid in West of British unearth famous grave 49th parallel is Earls legacy associated press London the coffin of the 4th Earl of a victorian states Man who negotiated the Western end of the has been found in an unmarked vault be Side a ruined Church in Northwestern George 4th Earl of was prime minister of Britain from he resigned during the crimean War with Russia As a result of revelations about British which caused much suffering among the As foreign Secretary in he negotiated the Oregon treaty which fixed the 49th parallel As the Western end of the Boundary Between the United states and the dispute arose after the administration claimed the whole of the Pacific coast As far North As Hamilto Gordon was buried in 1860 with great Queen Victoria sent her state coach with six Postillione and and among his pallbearers were Bremen and William Ewart glad the future prime but the Church at Stanmore j where he was buried was already Dis used with its roof off and As his rela Tives moved away and time passed i his burial place was though it was known to be at the said local historian Roy a said the mystery fascinated him for More than 50 he said he mentioned it to fre Derick a retired physician who is raising funds in order to the Church broke through Hicks said he found the coffin while removing Ivy from the one Stem led into the vault which bore nothing to indicate if any was on following the Stem through partly collapsed stonework we found an outer chamber and got masons to1 break through into a vault with empty there we saw what looked like the sealed Entrance to another Cham Hicks we we rent looking for specifically but we lifted up two stones in the vault floor and when shone a Torch through the Hole i saw coffins piled up and a Flash of Gold or i which was the Earls i there was the coffin with Erdeene insignia on it and his on top and the coffins of his two wives and three children and other Hicks 2 the ruined Church of John the evangelist was built in 1632 and closed in 10 years before Erdeene j it was replaced by a larger Church of the same name which was right beside the attached to an outside has been reseated to await instructions from the descendants of Hicks said he had been in touch with the marquess of Aberdeen and 12th Alastair Gordon said the family had not known the exact location of his tors burial i always assumed Aberdeen was m that vault but there was no said a retired All the old history books mention the Bentley priory vault beneath the ruined Church but they dont say it was outside it was curious that Aberdeen should have been buried in a disused Church but the family connection was the born in Edinburgh in a daughter of the Earl of Obercorn and lived in Bentley the Aber corns f f i House at 18thcentury ;