maplesyrup Posted August 21, 2004 Report Posted August 21, 2004 Voice of the North Angus cherishes this hard-scrabble dot on the northern map, where the Montreal and Makobe rivers meet. Spawned by the silver-mining boom of the early 1900s and clinging to the fringes of the lumber industry, Elk Lake, he says, "is too stubborn, too spirited to give up the ghost." Tonight, with close to half the 550-or-so population at the community centre/curling club to hear him play his jagged-edged songs, even the most unlikely citizens are cherishing him right back."It wound up as a real Charlie Angus love-in," he'll say later. "All these life-long conservative loggers wanting to help pay off my campaign expenses. It's the way people used to drink in the north on a nightly basis." I wonder what his version of "Oh Canada" sounds like. Quote An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. Anatole France
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