EDMONTON (CP)
. Visitors park their cars in
the asphalt-paved lot and
hustle to the platform of the
dusty 1920s rallway station,

impatient for a trip back in.

time.

Eventually the steam
locomotive and aging cars
of the Edmonton, Yukon
and Pacific Railway chug
into the station and the
passengers clamber. aboard

for the short ride to Fort _

Edmonton Park.

the station, park director
Ken Kobylka says many
visitors are in a hurry. But
he says the fort and the
townsite in the 75-hectare
(1iS-acre) ‘ park are
designed to take them back
to a slower, simpler era —
the fur-trading days of 1646
und the early 19009.

Some find it difficult to
adjust to the slower pace of
the past, but royalty and
movie stars have enjoyed

Page 12, The Hera, Tuesday, March 27, 1964 -.

Fort Edmonton, a tri

their visits to the park,

Alter attending a bar-
becue at the park during the
World University . Games
last summer, Prince
Charles and Lady Diana
were reluctent to leave,
Kobylka said, They said it
was one of the best facilities
they had visited.

A few weeks later, Kirk
Douglas and James Coburn

_ filmed parts of the western

movie Draw at the fort.

- They sald they'd like to.
In his office overlooking .

return to make another
film. '

-As the train travels to the
fort, visitors can catch
glimpses of a stockade and
the buildings depicting the
development of the com-
munity that grew into a city
of more than 500,000.

The park is several
kilometres upriver from the
original fort, which was
located behind the site of the
Alberta legislative building
and was demolished in 1915.

The’ elirnpees: bulld an-
ticipation for’ “the ad-

Venture that starts when

they get off at the fort,”
Kobyika BBYB,

The adventure is seelng
and “experiencing what

“Kobylka calls a “living

museum.
“Some museums use
mannequins, but wa use
therm only in store win-
dows,"’ he said. “They are
not used to portray people.”
PLAY ROLES i

Volunteers play the roles.
_of the people who lived and

worked in the fort and the
community. In some cases
tape recordings are used to

bring the past ‘alive for '

visitors. .
Rather than listening to a

dry description of the’

struggle pioneers faced,
visitors overhear a woman
crying behind a locked
hotel-room door. The
woman asks her’ husband
why he brought her to a

ip -

hostile land populated by
Indians and Jacking the
convenlences to which the
wab accustomed.

Kobylka aaid yisitors who
come to the park for
relaxation and recreation
find,: when they. return to
their cars in the parking Jot,
that icy have learned
something abdut Edmon-
ton’s history. -

The park is designed for
family outings.

“There is enough ‘here

now for a family to have a
full day’s “entertainment,”
he sald. “People can come
here, ‘go to church on
Sunday and spend the whole
day here,.’” -
_ The park also | provides a
living experience for school
children, The students. can
make candles and_ ice
cream or engage in a taffy
pull.

Besides the portrayal of
the fur-trading era in the
wooden fort, the park has

ba

strecis’ showing ‘life in.

Edmonton in 1885 ‘and-1905,
Efforts to build. a 1920

street were slowed when :

money became scarce
during the recent recession,
The Alberta government
has stopped offering grants
that- matched the amount

.Faised by volunteer groups,”

The incentive fo raise
funds ‘is no longer there,"
Kobylka said. .

Because of the money
shortage, the park- will
probably not be completed

for another 10to 15 years, he

said,

Kobylka sald. revenue-
producing operations
Contribute $550,000 to the
park's $1.375-million
budget. The clty makes up
the shortfall.

Besides . admissions,
revente comes from such

' sources as facilities for

parties and a portion of the
money earned © by
businessmen who operate

Nun serves God with artistic talent

OTTAWA (CP) — Her
father thought she was too
jovial to be a good nun, but
Anne Marie Ouellet proved
him wrong.

“He said he would rather
see me buried than join the
order of the Sisters of
Immaculate Conception and
he came twice from
Rimouskl to Montreal to
take me away. |

“But Ihave a determined
character. I stayed and he
came to accept my
decision,” says Ouellet with
a characteristic giggle.

Amember of the order for
25 years, she is using that
slaying. power and good
humor in an attempt to

Husbands still the power

WINNIPEG (CP)

Husbands are atill the .

power brokers in today’s
Marriages, but their power
is fading, says a family
studies expert who con-
ducted a survey on the
subject.

Nancy Kingsbury, .a
human ecology professor at
the Univeraity of Manitoba,
bases the changing roles in
family structure on a
recently completed study of
career-oriented couples.

* Through extensive in-
terviews and a complex
grading system, she found

convince her superiars that
there is room for an artist
among them.
TOOK SABBATICAL

After completing a degree
in education and visual arts:
at the University of Ottawa
in 1982, Ouellet took a:
sabbatical from convent
life. She moved to a high-
rise apartment in Ottawa
where she paints, meditates
and prays.

Shows at Ottawa City Hall
and in nearby Aylmer, Que.,

chave displayed her pain-

tings of woods, lakes, trees
and wild horses.

“Thelieve God wants us to
be ourselves, to be happy in
our own talents. My talent is

men ultimately still wield
more clout in important
decisions, “but only
slightly.”

_ A generation back, there
would have been no question

about who had the ultimate °

power in a marriage,

Man fakes death

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)
— A man who faked his

death so his wife could ©

callect almost $500,000 in
lite insurance has been
sentenced to three years In
prison and ordered to pay
$250,000 restitution to the
Ingurer,

Carroil Wayne
Baumgarner, 47, told U.S,
District Judge Elmo Hunter
last month and. agaln
Monday at his sentencing
that he had faked his death
in 1941 because “al the time,
for days, 1 felt lke 1 would

burst open inside and felt

like I had to do something.”
He would not tell the
judge why he felt that way.
Baumgarner pleaded
guilty last month to one
count of mail fraud in
connection with the false
life insurance claim,
Baumgarner said he
faked a hoating accident
while on a fishing rip with

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painting and I want to serve
Him through my art.”

She shows two coples of
biblical comic books she
illustrated. .

Her debut as an artist
came relatively late.

“T am 44 and for years I
worked In the kitchen. My
staff of five prepared meala
for 300 every day, When I
joined the order, you were
assigned the tasks you most
disliked to
humility and obedience.
Cooking was. not my
favorite activity. But, in
1962, 1 started reading
Tielhard de Chardin and he
helped me enormously to
accept my role.”

wife have professional,
long-term careers, the

‘responsibility for decision-

making is being thrown
wide open,, with women
galning-more influence. ..

The professor ‘compiled

_ her research from recent

interviews with 51 dual-

teach you -

In Malawi and Ambia,
Ouellet was pressed into
service as an.art teacher
and organized an art: class
for high’ school students.
Entries from her 1976 class

won many prizes.
“There - was some
discussion. My superior

said I didn't have to study
art, I had:a satural: talent.
But eventually I was
allowed to enrol at
University of Ottawa in the
visual arts program.”
Ouellet participated in
many ofthe university's
extra-curticular activities,
playing goalie for a hockey
team and wearing a sweater
which sported her nickname

had very liberal views about
sexual roles in a marriage,
“men tended to have more
power.

Her study was based on
analysing: dlaagreements
and the process. that led to
thelr settlement. Contrary

Soeur Volante (The Fiying
Nun),

Growing ° up “with ll
brothers and. five sisters
meant playing’ hockey and
baseball. “We always had
enough people in the family
for two teams.”

Ouellet was raised on a
Quebec farm, but says she
was drawn at an early age
to a religious life,

“I was destined to be a
nun and I have no intentions
‘of leaving the order. I hope
by my example perhaps

they will see that art can”

lead to God too. More
emphasis has'to be placed
on the individual’s talents.”
' Ouellet does not blame the
religious ‘community for
falling to use talents more
fully.

“It was the: way of the
limes, There used to be a
tule of — silence which
changed in 1970. Other
things are changing too. !
am the only member of my
order in Ottawa living in an
apartinent like this.”

Quellet sees her paintings
a8 a bridge of. com-
munication between the

stores’ and concede on”
the site. °

‘Kobylka sald the park,
opened in. 1974, attracts
about. 200,000 -visltora a
year, including conventlon-
goers and tourists passing
‘through the city on their
way to. Jasper | ‘National
Park, |°

Calgary’s Heritaga Park,
a similar facility depicting
Alberta ‘history, opened in

“he hopes: is’ a* little. more:

tangible than illusion.

“If someone wants
something made or
repalred, they can leave it
with me, goout and visit the
park aiid come back later
and plek.it up,” he said as
he hammered a copper ring
into shape.

Dassonville’s jewelry
shop is one of three stores in
the park ‘ operated by

the 19603 and attracts about Private businessmen: The ©

300,000 visitors a year. Ernest Brown Studio takes
. Besides raising money for 4nd sells photographs and
‘the = Edmonton park, ‘Mr. John’s Hata makes and

volunteers fill other im-
portant roles,

sells period hats.
The stores ‘contribute a

Kobylka said the park hag portion of their revenue to
150 volunteers, half of them the park, whieh has‘a $1.978-
rebuilding street cara that million operating budget.
will appear in the park thia The chance. to . create .

summer. Their work saves
hundreds of thousands of
dollars,

Volunteers also act as -

tour guides.
Didier Dassonville, |
crouched over a work bench
in an old jewelry shop at
Fort Edmonton Park, looks
as ifhe had just stepped out
_ Of a Charles Dickens navel.
Nimble fingers fly over
intricate work with the
. dexterity of an expert
craftsman, while in the
background an. old pen-
‘-dulum clock ticks away.

A bowler perched on
Dassonville’s head and an .

early jeweller’s glass in his
eye complete the picture.
On 1885 Street the clock
Ucks off a lost age, but some
of the illusion fades in the
. presence of park’: visitora’
modern dress and portable
radios,

Dassonville, -6 . works

jewelry :in such an en-
vironment ‘is exelting for
Dassonville.

creating and

“Belgium just” after

he ~ said.
“Ryerything will be hand-

+ made, [ean make anything

anyone . wants; ‘rings,
bracelets, brooches.” « -
Dassonville has been
repairing
jewelry since 15. He
started” iy his native
the
Second World War and
came to Canada Jn 1953. -
He is proud of his work,
“lve - always < loved

jewelry and the jewelry

here is ornate,” he -said,
making a. sweeping motion
over. the . counter which
contains antique brooches,
pins and ivory hair combs.
“Jt was all made by hand,
too, and very beautiful, of
course. But people want
something lighter and
modern today.”

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