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Gagnon is missing an air com-

pressor and a five-ton Air Trak

drill worth a combined total of about $100,000 and he says he would like them back.

by Tod Strachan ~

. According to Gagnon, he was working with his partner, Rene Nolin, for the Ministry of High- ways in a rock quarry about 13

-Miles north of Queen Charlotte

City and about 1,000 feet off the main highway in July, 1985,

when his drill rig- mysteriously :

caught fire and was destroyed.

. He said he was told by the RCMP not to touch the rig until they had finished their investiga-

tion into the cause of the fire, and about two and a half mon- ©

ths later returned to Terrace to

talk to Paragon Insurance, his

insurance agent, Gagnon said the insurance

company told him to talk to an. . ICBC adjuster, who also told - him not to touch a thing until

they had completed their own in- vestigation into the fire. - He said he waited about two

more months before phoning the ._ Queen Charlotte RCMP detach- . ~ ment, who told him they had not. found any cause for the fire and ._ - he could do anything he liked’ —

with the drill rig.

- However, according to Gag--

non, the ICBC adjuster said a

Vancouver investigator was —

looking into the cause of the fire, and since their investigation was still ongoing, he should

leave the equipment as it’was.vi" ==

'- He said he followed ICBC’s instructions but on reading the

fine print of his policy over a year later, it said he should have -

salvaged whatever he could as soon as possible. —

“| didn’t know that at the

time,”’ he said: ‘Who reads the

fine print in an. insurance — - policy?”

Gagnon said he then talked to a Terrace lawyer who helped

him gain an undisclosed in--

surance settlement to cover the loss of the truck on which the drill rig was mounted, but the amount offered for the drill rig and compressor was far too low, and he had to turn it down in hopes of a better settlement.

- In the summer of 1986, Gag- non said the insurance corpora- tion made a new offer, which he accepted, and the drill rig was then his to do with as he pleased.

He said that at the same time, a friend from the Charlottes phoned to say someone, ap-

parently with some heavy equip- —

ment, had taken the compressor

off the truck, turned the truck

sideways, and removed the transmission from the truck.

Gagnon: said this didn't con-

cern him too much because. the |

truck by that time belonged to

ICBC and all he wanted was the - remains of the drill and com- |

pressor.

He said he asked his friend to check the equipment to. make

_ sure it was intact, and indicated

he would send a low-bed truck from Terrace as soon as he received the insurance money to retrieve his drill and compressor.

According to Gagnon, he

' received the insurance money

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five-ton drill

Terrace resident Marcel.

about two months later,-but his friend said that the five-ton rock drill was missing and the. com- pressor unit was‘on its side with the air compressor removed. After leaving it over the winter, Gagnon said he went

back to the Charlottes with Rene. [

Nolin in August of this year to search for his. missing equip- ment, and even. though the RCMP said they. knew nothing about the missing equipment, spent two weeks searching the area, : ane ing a reward for any informa- tion leading to the recovery. of. his equipment. : .

_ Terrace Review — Wednesday, October 21, 1987 13

Missing — one r=

Gagnon said he is now offer-,. fi

“their recovery.

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ae - - . | : a . . 7 7 a is Terrace resident Marcel Gagnon says the Gardner- missing from

ys the Denver air compressor and air trak drill pictured above went a Queen Charlotte Island rock quarry about a year ago and he is now prepared to offer a reward for

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