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By DUSTIN QUEZADA

_ ITTOOK. nearly 40 years but Raymond Laurier and three of his adult children

made it back to Terrace.

A French immigrant, Laurier came . ; to the area in 1952 — settling first in

Kitimat and then Terrace — with his ' wife Jeannot, whom he had met in the - _ Eastern Townships of Quebec.

Laurier built a cabin in Thornhill

where his son Dominique was born in 1959.

Daughter Angela was bom three

years later and by the time there were _ four kids in the cabin, Jeanette told her’ J _ husband they had better find a larger -

house.

The cabin was ‘moved to ‘another " property and the family relocated to a

home on River Dr. in Thornhill. “The house is still standing,” said

: °Theo Cam, a neighbour who would

remain friends with Raymond through

‘his time here and beyond. “It’s where

the Moonlight Body Shop was.”

' Jeanette felt the need to be closer to |

her family in Quebec, so in 1959 she

‘and the family’s seven children board-

ed a train bound for Montreal. '- Raymond made two visits there in the following two years, which pro-

- duced two more children. He had

stayed the two extra years, working as

a faller and well digger. By the time Raymond moved (o join ° the family i in 1969, he had been here 17

years. Those years proved to be séme of his best as evidenced by the lasting friendships he made.

“His best friends are here,” said An- gela. “His last wish was to go back to France and to come back here.”

. Raymond, though suffering the

advanced effects of Alzheimer’s, did ©

indeed make it back, though the years

really changed the landscape.-

“My father took a lot of photos and

you can see the changes i in them,” An-_

Former Terrace man ‘drowns after helicopter crashes in lake:

leaves ‘behind a]

THE BODY of a young

- Terrace-Thornhill destination of family’ S cross-Canada trip”

ners Office said autopsy re-

THORNHILL Three: siblings Angela, centre, and Dominique Laurier, right, last-were in Terrace when Montreal hosted the world’s exhibition. On the . left is Manuel Pasdelou, Angela's boyfriend. ”

gela said.

“He couldn’t recognize anything — hardly his own house,” Cam said, add- ing his-longtime friend went through

town still trying to point out the Mile _ onher father and his friends i ‘in the Ter-

17 sawmill, For Dominique and Angela, who

were eight and five-years-old Tespec-- ‘tively when they left, their memories

of the area are limited.

‘Dominique remembers being in Wolves and reunions with Scouts and the activities they did. He also recalls a

“friend of his brother Vincent, the third sibling to make the trip, who would

ride a horse to school. But Dominique remembers enough

-tO witness great changes.

“Iti is so beautiful, I wanted to cry —

‘it’s 'more modern, more nice,” he said.

“I recognized the houses and it gave me a bit of a shock.”

‘From her father’s photographs, An- |

gela said she recognized Cam’s face and above all else, the trees. “The mountains, Lakelse Lake and

released, managed to. trudge

the trees,” she said. “That’s what I re-. member most — the trees.” ,

The diminutive Angela, who brought her: boyfriend Manuel Pasdelou, was documenting the trip for a film based

race area. “A contortionist by - trade, Angela

‘helped establish the now world famous

Cirque du Soleil in 1984 and toured

with them intemationally for several years. -

The siblings were blown away throughout their cross-Canada drive and no more so than in the northwest. -

The group visited Prince. Rupert, Kitimat, the Nass Valley, Stewart and.

‘the Salmon Glacier.

“I find around this section here so beautiful,” Angela said.

For Raymond, 76, it was ‘his last. trip. Dominique and Angela, however, aren’t So sure. ©

“Maybe like: salmon, we'll come

‘back here to die,” Dominique said.

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Saskatchewan. Philip Lincoln, 29, who had been living in Smith-

ers died on Aug. 13 when a

helicopter carrying him and two others went down in ap- proximately three metres of water south of Fond-du-Lac, a fly-in community near the Saskatchewan-Northwest Territories border. —

“Philip had an injury to his spine, so he couldn’t feel his legs and he drowned,”

Julie, Lincoln’ s wife told.

Black Press on Aug. 14. On Aug. 15, an RCMP

‘underwater recovery team

found Lincoln’s body, which was taken to Saskatoon for autopsy. ”

The Saskatchewan Coro- .

Correction notice

THE AUG. 9 issue of The Terrace Standard contained incorrect information about one float winner from the Riverboat Days parade.

Sunshine -_ placed third in the vehicle category, not the Totem Sad-

dle Club.

Limousine

sults would not be available for three to six months. — Sgt. Brad Kaeding, an RCMP. spokesman, said foul play was not suspected and, as such, police have tured the investigation into the cause of the accident over to Transport Canada.

The two other men,

whose names have not been

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expecting a large turnout of. —

people who want to pay their last respects.

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