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To: d:oug who wrote (89882)	9/22/2002 1:50:14 AM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 116836

The logger's name is Guillaume d'Artagnan. (Pronounced ghee`yohuhm, dart`ahn`yawuh.) This means William of Artagnan. We would anglicize it as Billy Hartag. The river is the Rideau. The building in the background is the new parliament building rebuilt after the fire during the war. The Princess Elizabeth 20 dollar bill was pink. The scene on the back of the 1954 Canadian one dollar bill was the taiga (spruce swamp) looking westward on highway 11, just as you approach the cutoff to Geraldton, Ontario. What looks like a grain elevator on the left is the service headframe of the Mcleod-Mosher gold mine, which is just off the hiway to the south. The scene on the back of the 10,000 dollar bill is a North West Mounted Police Officer (named Sam Steele) attending to the Maxim machine gun which guarded the Yukon-Alaska border in 1896. Wackes are actually the name of investors who buy shares in gold mines which are in sedimentary rocks in the Northwest Territories. They do not wear metal foil hats, but they do wear loud Hawaiin T-shirts and say things like "Take me to your leader!" and, "Are there any eskimos around here?" to pretty girls when they step off the airplane in Yellowknife. They are called variously mining wackes, money wackes, or just plain "Yanks" by the locals. (It is believed that the term "Yank" came from the action of pulling money out of zippered wallets) Sometimes they carry small cannon, dress in camouflage or carry large expensive rods and wicker baskets and wear straw hats with sharp hooks on them. These varietals are known as huntin' and fishin' wackes. EC<:-}