fhe Guardian, Charlottetown, Thurs.. July 8, 1965. 11

ACROSS THE ISLAND

‘|sand Sea Monster ‘Seen At West Cape

By NEIL A. MATHESON : Provincial-Farm Editor

Add one real honest-to-goodness sea monster to the at- fractions Prince Edward Island can offer to the tourists. I’ got this story late last fall but I thought it would be a shame to waste such an obvious tourist attraction yarn on the bleak months of late autumn, so I kept it until summer.

I had intended to run the story last week, on the first of July; but I mislaid my.notes temporarily, so here it is in the

, second<wéek. .

Raeford Macfean, O'Leary and John Ellis, West Point are two of the men who_told me about the monster. Both men are reliable.

LENGTH OF the monster was estimated to run some 40 to 60 feet by Mr. MacLean, and perhaps_a jitHle. longer than that, by Mr. Ellis

Serpentine Head - Large Hump

IT HAS a serpentine head that’s about three feet long, Mr. MacLean told me. The animal's top contour slopes back to a large hump some distance behind the head. The body color is dark. The general shape appears to be_ serpentine, though, of course, much of the body could not be seen as it would lie fairly deep in the water

The monster was only about 200 yards away when Mr. MacLean first sighted it. Then it went under the water and it was probably 500 yards away when it surfaced again. Of course distances are approximate, they must. be when one is trying to-estimate them on the water. Mr. MacLean suggested it would run 40 to 60 feet, and again the variation is under- standable, for it’s difficult to measure distance on the water, articularly when one. gets only a fleeting glance at an object.

e@ monster was travelling parallel to the shore when it sur- Paced twice, Mr. MacLean recalled

MR. ELLIS'S story is very much the same, though he thought the sea monster was more than 60 feet long. Mr. MacLean and Mr. Ellis were together when they sighted it.

“IT had gone to_see Mr. Ellis to sell him insurance,"’ said Mr. MacLean, an insurance underwriter. They were just about to enter the house, I believe, when they turned toward the shore which is nearby, and saw the monster. ‘

Mr. Ellis is a boat builder but he fishes lobsters in season. 1 recall looking out through his living room window and hav- ing him point exactly to the spot he saw the huge sea resident that may yet become a prime tourist. attraction.

The then quiet water of Egmont Bay is reasonably close te the Ellis residence.

Others Have Also Seen Monster

«+ MRS. ELLIS told me that her brother, William Stewart, had also seen it. Mr. Stewart resides in Halifax now. He was a lobster fisherman when he lived on the Island.

Raeford MacLean told me this week that Fred Living- stone, a young man who lives in Dunblane, about three miles from West Point, has also seen it.

j The monster has been seen for many years, I was told. Mr. MacLean’s father, Leslie MacLean, Dunblane saw it back about 1938. He hurried home to get a rifle he had purchased to shoot seals. But the thing was out reach when back to the shore. It was probably 1956 wheh Raeford Lean and Mr. Ellis spotted the unusual visitor.

I want to emphasize that this is. not ‘a ghost story’’. The facts have been given to me in all seriousness by the men

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who told me the story of. what they and others had seen.

There’s one indisputable fact about a sea monster story; you can't disprove it. I'm thinking now about the Loch Ness monster that has been getting publicity for that part of Scot- land_for many years. ~ :

Loch Ness Monster Yarn Cited.

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LOCH NESS is a deep lake—it's 754 feet at the deepest part, a reliable encyclopaedia reports, and it has had “an acquatic monster .. . accounts of which were much publicized in the early 1930s’’. ‘

The lake is about 28 miles long and about a mile wide. {t's enclosed by steep and often-wooded mountains and thus seems an ideal setting for a monster yarn.. But it has an . sutlet in the Ness River, so its monster could vacate the place. The Island's monster could leave Egmont Bay even easier, but it’s still a good story. I commend it to the at- tention. of our tourist people. Perhaps they could get some hints from the Scots on. how to get the most visitor interest mileage out of the thing. ~ pegs ;

After all ,the Scots don’t guarantee a visitor will see the Loch Ness monster. But it still gets them publicity. and plenty

Beluga Whale Recalled

I'm reminded of the smaller ‘‘monster’’ the West Prince people talked of for a few days until our Frank Weeks, and a number of companions trapped a 1400-pound Beluga whale _ in-the-Kildare River.

Our office encyclopaedia says the Beluga is a native of the Arctic seas, that it sometimes strays as far south on the At- lantic seaboard as the St. Lawrence River.

How the Beluga ever got as far south as the Island is one wonder, how it got into the waters of the Kildare is another.

But here’s the part of the story I like best. The Alberton lads sold the whale for $4,000 to the New York Zoological society for the aquarium at Coney Island. — : :

THEY FITTED up a water fight box on an ordinary truck. They bought the most comforffble and sturdy mattress avail- able and put it on the bottom of the box to absorb the worst of the road shocks. They filled the tank with salt water and they purchased ice where they could get it, to keep the water

reasonably cool—it was in the\heat of summer. The boys made _ |

tt to New York.

But I liked the story some)of the lads told when they re- turned. Had the whale died, enroute to N.Y., some of them at least had made plans to keep it from smelling long enough to get back at least the ‘cost of the trip. They planned on stopping at towns on the way back home, and charging 25 cénts per head to see the ‘Beluga.

Don Oland Here Next Week |

+ Don. Oland, president of the Atlantic Winter Fair, will be

> here on Monday. He speaks to Rotary at noon, and at nine

o'clock at night he meets Island breeders and showmen -at

Birch Court. Former showmen have been notified by letter, but new showmen are welcome at the meeting. ‘

To make it all the more inviting, the provincial depart-

ment of agriculture is providing coffee and doughnuts, if T

_ remember. correctly what R. C.-(Bob) Parent told me. He's. |

the Island director on the AWF board. — ~ : eee a ___ quest,to_resign_his _C. Guy Rouleau seat aa MP for Montreal Dol- Resigns Post |CONDUCT DEPLORED In Que. Party

(CP)—The Que- cien Rivard | ble.” é

The federation branch, at

MONTREAL bec branch of the Liberal Feder- ation of Canada has officially | accepted the resignation of Guy | Rouleau as a member of its) leadership and will examine the conduct of another Liberal MP.

The other MP is Edmund As- ‘welin who represents the Mont- | real constituency of Notre Dame | tle Grace

He has been asked to appear hefore the executive commitfee of the federation’s Quebec : branch July 26.

night, accepted his resignati

cil several big topics

lexamined by

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Attending amine his conduct in‘land pur- eral René Tremblay. chases by the Protestant school : board of. Greater Montreal.

_ A civil suit against Mr. As- selin by the board was rejected in May. The suit was launched

@ after a Quebec royal commis- sion report on the land pur-

City.

arated their organizations.

whom I have quoted. They are serious-minded, reliable men ~ |

The move came in-the wake of the Dorion report, which said | his conduct in the case of Lu- | was “reprehensi- |

a meeting in Montreal Tuesday,

from the branch's general coun-

The executive committee | spent three hours mulling over |

Among them was the matter * of electoral funds, which will be the federation's |policy commission. Mr. Rou-| | the The committee plans to ¢x+/ meeting was Postmaster = Gen- | The executive decided to hold

the founding <convention of the | federation Nov. 12-14 in Quebec |

The federal and ” provincial Liberals in Quebec recently sep-

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Seaway, Canal {20's the Welsnd Canal. | * been in Said Setting lscnctal” corse, tennage. wit |more than 1,000,000. tons of

Traffic Records

OTTAWA (CP)--Traffie — rec- ords are being set on the St. Lawrence Seaway and the Wel- land Canal this season.

More than 14,300,000 tons have passed through the eastern sec- tion of the seaway in the fifst three months of the 1965 season, | a four-per-cent increase over

gee record set last year. | Welland Cana! tonnage totals 17,900,000 tons, a 3.4 per-cent in- egg for the April-June quar-

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manufactured iron and steel products upbound on the water- ways.

Upbound cargo on the seaway has shown a 27.6-per-cent in- crease over 1964’s April-June pe- riod and a 20.9-per-cent increase on the Welland Canal.

Downbound cargo, or that moving towards the sea, has shown a 14-per-cent decrease on the seaway and a 6.3-per-cent decrease on the canal.

ORDER JETLINERS

MONTREAL (CP) — Air Can- ada announced Wednesday it has ordered two additional Douglas DC-8 jetliners for serv- ice. on domestic and interna- tional routes. The 130-passenger

| June totals alone on either , canal exceed those of any” single imonth in 1964, the peak year.

The Montreal - Lake. Ontario |section handled ‘5,685,000 tons jlast month, a 10-per-cent in | crease over last-June, while) Welland Canal tonnage was up nine-per-cent at 7-200,000 tons.

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Wheat exceeded 3,000,000 tons

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