Canada's great imposter
 

Interesting if your bored and have 5 minutes to spare.

Grew Owl

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Dear Lord have they resurrected him again?

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No doubt the film will be shown again and again over winter:unsure:

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Oh, no. :frown:

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That's OK, just don't watch it.

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OK. I'll watch Miracle on 39th St. instead. That'd be something new.

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I've never seen that, nor It's a Wonderful Life. Am i culturally deprived ?

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that's because Novo was 5 streets too far

it's Miracle on 34th Street :lol:

Is this Grey Owl film crap, or just so overplayed that it was good the first time but now you're sick of it?

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Ive not seen either, either:rofl:

I found it interesting and watchable, I mean anything is watchable after watching mountain men and gold digging storage war pawn stars, but it is overplayed, it will do the rounds shortly;)

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The film suffers a bit from omission and artistic license, as is often the case when you're already familiar with a biography. Maybe they'll string a whole bunch of them together, (Grey Owl, the Winnie the Pooh bear thing, maybe Passchendale or something tasteful about the War of 1812) make a weekend of it maybe? :fingerscrossed: :sick: I have Old Jock McGowan's fishing tackle that he used when he went fishing with Grey Owl in the '30s.

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I don't think it's overplayed 'cos I'd never even heard of him.

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i thought it was going to be about Hughie Green folks

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He used to drink in the same pub as me. Cider and gin he ordered, in the same glass.

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Now that's what I call style. :thumbup:

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Nor me.

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I have heard of him, and that he was a quasi-Indian, but did not know he was a proto-conservationist.

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After WW1 when all the soldiers came back many of them began trapping because prices were good and there weren't enough jobs to go around, and that's how the beavers nearly got trapped out, and Grey Owl's return to Canada put him here at the right time to take up the cause of saving them.

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I'd never heard of him either, and my husband seemed to have heard his name but, not much more. I think this is a thrilling story...talk about assimilation! I'm going to the library today and will look to see if they have the film. He evidently had a way with the ladies!

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If it's one of the old fashioned libraries with books made of paper, the biography I consider best is by Lovat Dickson.

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Many thanks....yes, there are aspects of life that aren't always great in Fredericton (January to March come to mind) but the library here is utterly brilliant, it is quite outstanding, in both traditional and modern ways.