‘ A16 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 8, 2006 ed heart attack. By MARGARET SPEIRS - great outdoors has passed away quietly. : ‘Bob Haspeck,-63, was found dead inside <, °. ahut near the CN rail tracks at Pacific east —_ * of here Oct. 15. ; : _ His daughter, Marika, said he was found _ clutching” his chest similar to someorie iy 2 5 BO - who'd suffered a heart attack. It’s believed 7 ~ he:passed away on Friday, Oct. 13. de The person who found him put a stop: sign have to stop, she said. oS _catch the train to town and didn’t feel well. Haspeck, who lived in a cabin near Pa-, cific, 40km east of Terrace, was the lone cit- izen of the former railway town that at one - \ aan time contained maintenance facilities. af - His- daughter said she left his clothes and non-perishable food items in the cabin .| Where he lived for hunters to use along with a note asking them to respect the cabin. At the bottom of the note she wrote: His name Was Bob. |. & When Haspeck either waved down the j train for a ride to town or made the 10km_ 7 trek on foot to cross a logging bridge.on the 4 Skeena River to Hwy16, ‘he stayed at the " Terrace Emergency Shelter where worker i. _ Blaine Stensgaard remembers him well. : “He was a very nice man,” he said, add- - ing Haspeck was sociable, gracious and very considerate. “I think he really liked living where he was living.” . When asked how he would get to town, Haspeck would tell of walking down the ‘'* tracks and how the trains would sometimes » sneak up on him. » Stensgaard said Haspeck was quiet, kept to himself and had a great respect for his surroundings. “He was very respectful of the things that were around him, where he lived and the actual planet. He was very consider- - ate of everything on it,” he said. : Terry. Monture, an assistant tracks su- - pervisor for.CN, took Haspeck’s daughter, Marika, and her mother ‘out to collect his eae A. MAN who lived the solitary life in the _ on the train tracks so a passing train would > It’s believed he was. waiting. at the hut to . BOB HASPECK, known as “Bob from Pati." passed ay away Oct. 13 of a suspect- JEFF NAGEL PHOTO o A heart attack claims | ‘Bob from Pacific’ belongings from his cabin on a high- -rail, a truck that has train wheels so it can move . along the tracks. While there, Haspeck’s daughter did a” smudge ceremony — a native tradition for cleansing that involves burning sweetgrass and putting the smoke over the person’s head and heart — for her dad, who was Iroquois. ’ She left the sweetgrass braid at his cabin afterward. Monture said Haspeck would visit rail- way workers whenever ‘they. were in his vi- cinity. He remembers Haspeck as being a sports fan, particularly of hockey, and was accustomed to seeing him out at Pacific. Haspeck first came to Pacific in the 1970s to be part of a hippy ‘gathering there: after _ hearing about it from an advertisement in the Mother Earth News when he was a 22-year- - old university student in London, Ontario. _. Haspeck was Pacific’s lone regular resi- dent off-and-on for the last several years. He would write in his journals, drink in . the nature and solitude and lead visitors on impromptu tours of the town or what was left | of the final resting places of landmarks like the old Nicholl Hotel, Thomas McCubbin’s general store or the roundhouse. _He lived the simple life with no electric- ity, no refrigeration and no running water. | His lifeline to the outside world was CBC Radio, which delivered the news and oc- casional personal messages on its message service for people in remote areas without phones. Haspeck became known as “Bob from Pacific.” Once, when he packed up to move south temporarily to live with his daughter, who was worried about his health living in such an isolated place, he talked about the memo- ries he’d savour like the sight of a fox atop chest-high snow staring in at him through his kitchen window, spotting the place where a moose bedded down for the night or when he and his dog fought off an attacking bear on the railway tracks. — “Tsee things out in nature that most peo- ple never see,” he said at thattime. “I’m going to miss it.” MARK THESE DATES ON YOUR CALENDAR! : | | | : November 16% = 19% All items hand made! 4 _ Four great days to shop for those | 1) i | a special people on your list! i AL still time to book your table... zs ; sO Registration forms available at: Mall Administration Office Red Raven ¢ Creative Zone oetee ent fe ote ew ee ee eee ee Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine Thornhill Animal Shelter Dr. Lou Elorza “ | Spay and Neuter Christmas Campaign 2006 The Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine and Dr. Elorza. of. the All-Northern Veterinary Clinic ‘are® sponsoring a limited number of low, cost spay and -. neuter procedures for licensed dogs residing in the ¢ Thornhill Dog Control service area. 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