Earths's Solar System and the Order of Planets taught at St. Brieux Elementary in 1973.
Harvey and his first wife Eleanor had 4 children. Kim was the oldest girl and her younger sister was Rhonda. Later, the girls were followed by the twin boys. They lived in northeast Saskatchewan. Harvey was an electrician by trade. He was also a bit of a backyard mechanic. He was working on one of these vehicles before going to work one day. Time was short, and he did not finish repairing the vehicle. Instead, he told his wife not to use the car. He went to work. Then, his wife loaded up the twins into the car, and she went to the bank. The boys suffocated in the car in front of the bank. There was an electrical fire. Harvey left his wife and his two girls sometime after the funeral. That began Harvey's Run. Harvey's Run would last a lifetime. Running. This is how I got caught up in Harvey's Run.
I've now driven past Clavet, Elstow, and Colonsay on my way to Ottawa. I was an adolescent during my time with Harvey's Run from the twin ghosts. In 1974, I believed scientists with white coats making discoveries for money at 1%er organizations like the National Science Board (NSB) south of the 49th parallel. Their report Science and The Challenges Ahead claimed that "during the last 20 - 30 years, world temperature has fallen, irregularly at first but more sharply over the last decade." The NSB was widely quoted south of the 49th parallel as 1%ers paid snake oil salesmen to produce the right science. That science supported 1%ers in their production, consumption, Profit, and the Business of War. Their 'science' was projectile vomited by their President and Their Congress and Their media to the rest of the world. They would never be punished for the dead their science would create, then again neither was the snake oil salesman. They would be dead, before people paid for their mistakes with their lives.
Harvey's Run was almost as fanciful and deadly. The very beginning of Harvey's Run began in 1974 when I turned 12 years old and finished Grade 6 in Humboldt. Harvey's Run would last until I was 16 years old. I was caught up in Harvey's Run through Humboldt SK, Watrous SK, Ear Falls ON, Oxdrift ON, Shaunavon SK, Lloydminster SK, Claresholm AB, and Lethbridge AB. I'm now questioning whether or not these 4 years may have taught me to run when I was young? I kept to myself after Humboldt. Friendships were short term happiness with a lifelong hangover. I kept to myself. I preferred to be alone. Harvey's Run would last until he died.
Harvey could not forgive himself for the death of the twins. It was not his fault, but he could not get on with his life. Who could? Many parents loosing a child, never really get on with their lives. I would see more than my share of children, dead. Children, don't die alone. Someone hurts. Harvey's Run was medication for a pain which would be lifelong. Running was Strong Drugs. Short of being dead, where could he go? Harvey ran with my mother in tow from Humboldt. She was also running from the town drunk. They teamed up. Running just seemed to be the thing to do for both of them. Since, I was to young to go it alone at 12, I followed along with my brother Leo and my sister Lorraine. Science and The Challenges was a lie, and white coats were never to be trusted. I knew that very young. Only a 'Mark' trusts either the snake oil salesman or the white coats paid by 1%ers in my warming world. I could imagine this line back to times even before we had mercury in glass. Trend the top three temperatures back 6000 years, instead of fake news and fake science, but I'm getting ahead of myself. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit Dutch, German, Polish, Physicist, Engineer, and Glass Blower invented the mercury in glass thermometer 1714. Global Warming measurements should start with the Industrial Revolution instead of fake news and fake science by 1%ers in the National Science Board (NSB) and the National Science Foundation (NSF)? The NSB and NSF would intentionally hide the severity of the geometric progression of temperature killing a Billion.
Fake News and Fake Science would eventually ruin so many forest and ice people.
Harvey's Run required mobility which he purchased in the form of a 16 year old 8 foot by 42 foot home on wheels. He could run with his truck pulling his home on wheels. He was running from his demons. The new family of 5 pulled into Watrous Saskatchewan late in June of 1974 with Harvey's Chevy Valiant, the Dodge Truck, and a home on wheels. He unhooked the home on wheels at Manitou Beach. Then, Harvey went back to Humboldt with his truck to pick up the horses with the horse trailer home on wheels. He brought back Big Money, Sunny, Pellet and Bullet, Whiskey and Smoky Joe, Mutt and Jeff, Munick, and Nada in the horse trailer.
Watrous SK is a village 117 km south east of Saskatoon. Watrous was settled by Russian - Germans, Russian - German Lutherans, Volga Germans, and German Protestants. These settlers were prominent in the areas near Lanigan, Leroy, Watrous, Jansen, Esk, Dafoe, Melville, Neudorf, and Lemberg starting in the 1890's. The early settlers found flat and rolling grassland. Their land was south of the Boreal Forest which makes up 55 percent of Canada's land area. These settlers were fortunate compared to the Bretons from St. Brieuc France populating St. Brieux SK in the Boreal Forest just 146 km north. Should I have felt guilty for their hardship?
I had driven through Viscount, and I was now passing Plunket. Watrous is south of Plunket. The #365 Highway connects the #2 Highway to Manitou Beach. Watrous is situated just south of Little Manitou Lake with a population of 1500 souls. In 1906, Watrous was founded by Frank Watrous Morse. Manitou Beach borders Manitou Lake. Manitou Beach was considered a national and internationally famous mineral spa in the roaring twenties through to the fifties. The dance hall was known as the "Home of the World Famous Dance Floor Built on Horsehair". In any event, Manitou Beach was better than being the town drunks son in St. Brieux. Glaciers were the single most powerful environmental influence in the land of forest and ice since the onset of the ice age by a catastrophic asteroid impact. Over many thousands of years the Glaciers receded, and Glaciers and Rivers carved Little Manitou Lake on what was once an inland sea hundreds of thousands of years ago. Then, we lost are remaining glaciers and permafrost in the north, as "Greenland gave us it's great ice cover to rotting ice"
Manitou Beach was developed as a resort early in the 20th century. Legend has it that aboriginals were drawn to the lake for thousands of years for relief of rheumatic conditions and burning fevers. Legend maintains the aboriginals came from as far east as the Great Lakes for the healing properties. Legends also claim aboriginals came from as far west as the Rocky Mountains. There are currently 630 recognized First Nations governments or bands spread across Canada. Legends are often as deceptive as the magicians misdirection. The aboriginals would have us believe sick people wandered through hundreds of tribes populated with warriors armed with sharp rocks tied to sticks? Really? Can legends be lies? Of course.
Manitou Lake is a glacier dug lake covering 13.3 sq. km, with an average depth of 3.8 meters. The water is 50 percent saltier than the Dead Sea. In some circles Manitou Beach became known as the "Carlsbad of Canada". The specific gravity is actually higher than the famed Czechoslovakian Spa. The lake has additional quantities of magnesium sulphate and iron oxide, which floats the human body. The salinity of 12 percent is 3.5 times saltier than the oceans. The forest and ice people had no idea what this and all their Glacier melts would contribute to the new world. We could not have imagined? We were naive young pioneers. The 1%er controlled media kept their secrets in Production, Consumption, Profit, and the Business of War. We were young forest and ice people who didn't know the change had already begun many years ago. Warm, was a good thing in the land of forest and ice? We were oblivious to change. We were as blind to change as the Developmentally Delayed Aboriginal was oblivious to metal.
Meanwhile, Harvey's Run parked the home on wheels in the northwest corner of the Manitou Park in the Manitou & District Regional Park. Harvey rented a small acreage southwest of the Regional Park for the horses. Then, he continued to Winnipeg to pick up Harvey's daughters Rhonda and Kim. When they returned the new family of 7 lived in the home on wheels and a big tent on the ground. I became quite close to Rhonda, as she was only one year older than I was at the time. We weren't close in a sisterly way!
The new family of 7 lived next to the lake which translated into "mysterious being" in the Algonquian language. In late July of 1974, Harvey's Run continued. Rhonda and Kim were going to be returning to Winnipeg. Harvey and my mother decided that Rhonda, Kim, Lorraine, Leo, and I would start towards Winnipeg on a trail ride. We left Watrous with a Chuck Wagon behind the black's known as Whiskey and Smoky Joe. Leo drove the Chuck Wagon. Lorraine rode her horse Sunny, Rhonda rode Jeff. Kim rode Mutt. Since, Harvey had sold my horse Munick in Watrous, I rode whatever was left over of Pellet, Bullet, or Nada.
The 2 spare horses were tethered to the back of the chuck wagon. The young pioneers left the glacier scooped valley on their way to Winnipeg. I would never live near the lake of "mysterious being" again. Our trail ride began with dreams of making it to Winnipeg. We were all just kids when I look back on this now. We were riding away from the "mysterious being" on the #365 Hwy through the village of Manitou Beach heading north past the Golf course. I always found something mysterious about glaciers and ice in our land. Originally, we had massive ice burgs breaking apart in May and June along the Grand Banks. It was hard to imagine ice bigger than ice burgs for a kid, but I read about Greenland where the gigantic Glaciers were still the top dog of all the Ice. While our ice cold forest warmed slowly, our people gradually migrated north over the next 50 years. Our Newfoundland forest and ice people spotted and took photos of an iceberg spotted 4 months early in mid-February off Signal Hill in St. John’s and Cape Bonavista NF . Then 3 months earlier, the forest and ice people could watched 450 icebergs near the Grand Banks 3 months earlier in March while wearing shorts. Today, the young pioneers continued north on #365 Hwy toward the #668 Hwy in the land of forest and ice.
We turned right at #668 Hwy for 16.7 km. We stayed left on the 668 Highway for another 20 km before arriving at the village of Geurnsey and the Yellowhead Highway. We camped in an old shed on the Geurnsey Campgrounds. The next morning we saddled up and hitched up the team to the chuck wagon. The young Pioneers continued their trail ride to Winnipeg. We turned east on the Yellowhead Highway which was named for the Yellowhead Pass. This was the route chosen to cross the Canadian Rockies many years ago. We rode through the small villages of Geurnsey, Esk, Jansen, and Dafoe at the southern tip of Quill Lakes in this area of the land of forest and ice, where their slogan crest and slogan claims survival by the 'Strength of many Peoples'.
Fake News and Science on Quill Lakes as Arctic Global Warming and Glaciers Melt (Google Maps)
They made a camp outside of town. This area has an abundance of archaeological records proving 6,000 years of Aboriginal settlement before settlers arrived. These very same archeological records show life before the settlers to be nasty, brutish, and short. The aboriginals were stuck in what European history often refers to as their Dark Ages. Average life expectancy for the aboriginals was 19 - 21 years for 6000 years before the arrival of the European settlers.
This life expectancy research compares with Egypt and Nubia in 1050 BC with a sedimentary agriculture lifestyle of 19.2 years of age. Archeological evidence from graves suggests that around 1500 AD, the North American Indian life expectancy was 18.9 years as a hunter gatherer. The evidence would suggest that the aboriginal survival rate has been flat for at least 6000 years. The average life expectancy would be around 20 years of age. The recent discoveries of aboriginal footprints which date back 13,000 years on British Columbia's Calvert Island would seem to indicate that the aboriginals were stuck in the dark ages for what might be 13,000 years.
Thousands of stone tools found in a cave in Jordan, reveal clues about how humans may have first organized into more complex social groups depending on their technical skills. We have achieved remarkably accurate estimates of 40,000 to 45,000 years ago for the earliest Upper Paleolithic stone tools in the Near East said Aaron Stutz, associate professor at Emory University Oxford College. For the sake of this discussion aboriginal in Canada was stuck in the dark ages since at least 13,000 years ago. While other people in other lands were running tool factories 40 45 thousand years ago. Why the developmental delay for aboriginals on the prairies and the rest of what will become Canada?
Aboriginals had no animal husbandry? Why did the aboriginals not domesticate easy to catch Prairie Chickens or Partridge in tree branch pens? Aboriginals did not model Gold for jewellery or spiritual worship? Yet, settler educated aboriginals "claim" everything had a great spirit. No brass. No lead. No silver. No copper. No Tin. No steel. The aboriginals could only use stone age weapons. That's why the life expectancy was exactly in line with older cultures before they "developed". There are many aboriginals in Canada that may not like what I will say next. It's all your fault.
According to the 2010 Census, the average life expectancy of an aboriginal is 73-74 years for men and 78-80 years for women. This is roughly 3 1/2 times longer than before the settler arrived with magic sticks that fired flame. The white ghosts had tools could only possessed by a god. The first ships were gods to the aboriginal in Canada. No gold in North America even though "other" peoples had gold jewellery by 6000 BC. The aboriginals were 7500 years behind. They were 6000 years late with copper. They were 5700 years late with silver. They were 5500 years behind with lead. They were 4800 years late with bronze. They were 3000 years late for the iron age. There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever the aboriginal in North America had the capability to advance beyond a hunter gatherer.
Each aboriginal reading this must consider one simple truth. If it were not for the settlers the aboriginal hate, 74 percent of aboriginals reading this would be dead. The other 26 percent would have a average life expectancy of around 20 years of age. The mind set of the aboriginal in Canada is to blame the settlers because they are alive. We were coming to an area where there were several Aboriginal Reserves.
To continue my story of Harvey's Run, the Young Pioneers woke south of Quill Lakes. They saddled up their horses and Leo hitched the team to the chuck wagon. They rode through the tiny Hamlet of Mozart south of Quill Lakes. Mozart was founded in 1909, and named after the classical Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. They rode through Wynyard which is a part of the Rural Municipality of Big Quill. Many of the settlers in this area around Big Quill Lake and Little Quill Lake were of Icelandic origin. They settled an area called the Vatnabyggd. Elfros was also settled by Icelandic immigrants. Finally, The Young Pioneers rode into Foam Lake Saskatchewan. In modern times people of Icelandic descent account for about 1/4 of the population.
This is farmland between Big Quill & Little Quill Lake as Climate Change challenges the forest and ice people. (Google Maps)
The Pioneers could still see the Foam Lake Elevator behind them when they decided to camp on the east side of Foam Lake. This area is populated by the Day Star First Nation, Kawacatoose First Nation, Muskowekwan First Nation, Lucky Man First Nation, and the Little Black Bear First Nation. We selected a camp spot just off the Yellowhead Highway. We grassed and tethered their horses. We slept in an chicken coup 1/4 of a km off the road in August 1974. The Little Black Bear First Nation was the closest reserve to the south. Just to the south of Little Black Bear First Nation is the Muskowekwan First Nation. The Young Pioneers were roughing it in the land of forest and ice.
DDA Gangs with duelling factions were all around our trail ride. Yesterday and today, violence was just part of life on the Muskowekwan First Nation. Today, a Queen’s Bench Judge Justice Guy Chicoine talked about a changing of the guard, as one Native Syndicate was taking out another with force. Jessie Mark Wolfe, 30, and Shane Darrell Wolfe, 32, stood trial on charges of break, enter and aggravated assault. The two received 6 and 7 years for their gang activities. The trial included testimony from two children under five, as DDA kicked in 'doors and several DDA men and youth' rushed into the house. Masked DDA in black and white bandanas were armed with 'a gun, metal bars, bats and golf clubs'. Just the nice DDA environmentalists at the Muskowekwan First Nation. Would we disappear?
During the night, the Little Black Bear Band untied our horses, and they rode away with most of them. Fortunately, Pellet and Bullet were to tired or to stubborn to go with the aboriginals. The next day we were all afraid the Little Black Bear Band stole our horses were lost for good. Leo and Lorraine took Pellet and Bullet to search for the horses. They started to find the horses throughout the day. Young Little Black Bear Band Aboriginals rode up to us, and the DDA laughed at us as they just let the horses go. Of course, what could we really expect from a developmentally delayed aboriginal and children 15 and under. That's just the way the DDA were raised by DDA. Primitive. Finally, we collected enough horses ride back through Foam Lake to find Sonny. Lorraine was in tears, as we could not find her horse. We searched the area below Big Quill Lake and Little Quail Lake while the primitive aboriginals had their fun.
The farmland photo was taken directly on the 640 bend in the middle of the new big lake. Quill Lakes
It was late afternoon, before we rescued the horses from the aboriginals. Some had been run hard. Nada was beaten up pretty bad. He was a very spirited horse that would run till he died in a lather. Sonney was also abused. The weather was starting to cloud up. Suddenly, as the storm approached we were happy to see my mom and Harvey arrive to check our days progress. What progress? No progress. They brought food. We ate. We bridled and saddled our horses, and Harvey hooked the black team to the Chuck Wagon. Harvey decided they were going to get out of dodge as the storm began. Harvey bounced the Chuck Wagon along the ditches, and we got out of dodge.
Finally, a wild looking aboriginal showed up with her horse. We had to ride as a group in town to try to shame Little Black Bear Band Aboriginals into giving the horses back to the Young Pioneers. I still wonder today if aboriginals feel shame. Did stone age Aboriginals have a sense of shame? Right and Wrong? Did stone age Aboriginals from the Little Black Bear Band kill each other with stones tied to sticks for 13,000 years? How should we expect the Little Black Bear Band Aboriginals to "grow up" after being developmentally delayed for so long?
It was late afternoon, before we rescued the horses from the aboriginals. Some had been run hard. Nada was beaten up pretty bad. He was a very spirited horse that would run till he died in a lather. Sunney was also abused. The weather was starting to cloud up. Suddenly, as the storm approached we were happy to see my mom and Harvey arrive to check our days progress. Storms back then we colder and usually windy with a little rain. In 1974, our land of forests and ice was only warming, and the forest and ice people seldom had weak tornadoes. We never had tropical storms or cyclones related to temperature fluctuations. We did have blizzards in the winter, where the wind would blow our snow and ice. It was warmer, however the warming was one of our convenient little white lies. We didn't know warming would accelerate leading to Tropical Storms, Record Breaking Wind, and Cyclones. We knew it was warming, but 3/4 of the land of forest and ice was ice for most of the year. That was already changing, but we had no idea that storms in the middle of the winter would become so severe. The Young Pioneers had their horses back in camp, and they were not as naive about the DDA. Progress? No progress on the trial today. We had gone nowhere. Mom and Harvey brought food, and we ate. We bridled and saddled our horses, and Harvey hooked the black team to the Chuck Wagon. Harvey decided they were going to get out of dodge as the storm began. Harvey bounced the Chuck Wagon along the ditches. The Young Pioneers got out of dodge feeling little love for the stone age aboriginals or DDA from the Little Black Bear Band SK.
Tuffnell would be their last camp on the Canadian Prairies. We were wet, as we unsaddled their horses. We setup camp. We slept along the side of the road. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Residential Schools completed in June 2015.
