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VETERAN RECALLS BEING STRANDED AT SEA IN WW2
‘They kept waking me up to ask the time’ By Theresa McManus
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A Burnaby man’s wartime memento has stood the test of time. Harold, who asked that his surname be withheld, served as an engineer for the British Merchant Navy in the Second World War.While he was in a reserved occupation and didn’t have to serve in the war, the 20-year-old chose to join the Merchant Navy in 1941. “I wanted to go and see the world,” he explains. “I took off and was on the Celtic Star, one of the Blue Star Line ships.” Harold, 94, crisscrossed the North Atlantic during the war, often sailing through atrocious weather. “It was bad. Just rough. Rough waters and howling wind,” he says. “I used to get seasick. I wasn’t a good sailor. Sometimes I would feel like Continued on page 9
KEPT ON TICKING: A Rolex wristwatch purchased in Argentina during the Second World War has served one veteran of the British Merchant Navy for 70 years, including three-and-a-half days in a lifeboat after his ship was torpedoed off the coast of Africa. PHOTOS CORNELIA NAYLOR
‘HE’S (TRUDEAU) TRYING TO EASE US INTO A DECISION ...’
Mayor: Ocean deal paves way for pipeline By Tereza Verenca
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Burnaby’s mayor says the $1.5-billion Oceans Protection Plan announced by the federal government this week is a sign of what’s to
come. Derek Corrigan told the NOW he’s worried Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will approve the proposed Trans Mountain expansion after Monday’s funding announcement.
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“I think all of us can look at this as being something that’s anticipatory. He’s trying to ease us into a decision that’s going to be made later on in December by making these announcements now. It’ll be disappointing, but it
certainly is, I think, a precursor to an announcement we’re going to like even less,” said Corrigan. Trudeau’s announcement comes exactly six weeks before his Liberal cabinet is expected to make a deci-
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sion on the Kinder Morgan file.The federal response appears to satisfy one of the five conditions Premier Christy Clark set out for any new pipeline development – that there be a world-leading coastal spill response
system. Corrigan said while it’s hard not to welcome investment in oil spill response, no plan will change his mind about the pipeline. Continued on page 4
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