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CENTENNIAL Commission- er John Fisher sights a replica of Samuel de Champtain’s as- trolabe. Mr. Fisher is a sup- porter of efforts to have the original given to Canada by

Champlain's Astrolabe Will Be Centennial Gift

By GERARD McNEIL OTTAWA (CP)—An electron- es firm here is trying to re- patriate an old navigation de- |

Charlottetown, Wed., Sepi. 8, 1965.

the New York Historical Li- brary. Champlain lost_his as- trolabe at Muskrat Lake, on the Ottawa River, in 1613. It was found by loggers in 1867 and sold to @ United States

admirer _of--Champlain, got the firm interested in the explorer. | Mr. MacRae now is with the | |Centennial Council.

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8 aaa 1913 for $10. Efforts are being made to get it back by 1967, the centennial of Canadian Confederation.

(CP Phote)

It is hoped that the birthplace | also can be given to Canada by

vice the astrolabe Samuel de| The astrolabe*was adopted as | 1967.

Champlain used in exploring | Canada It would be the com- pany’s gift to the country for the 1967 centennial year.

Computing~ Devices of Can- eda Ltd., which makes naviga-

m and other instruments. adopted the Champlain = astro- labe as its signature severa: years ago.

It is one of the 500 firms that belong to the Canadian Centen- nial Council, a private group carrying out a number of pro- jects for 1967.

One of them is an attempt to have the astrolabe returned to | Canada by.the privately-owned New York Historical Library.

The _astrolabe, a. crudefore- runner of today’s sextant, nad

a Cirtular scale marked off into” 360 degrees and a rotating arm

When suspended from a tree or. |

steady object on: a‘ ship, the navigator sighted the Norti Star to determine his latitude then sighted two or more other

known. stars along the movable |

arm to determine his longitude.

REMARKABLY ACCURATE

Sightings had to be made either at dawn or dusk when the horizon was visible. The as- trolabe also could be sighted on the sun during the day with readings taken at fixed time in- | tervals but this did not give as accurate figures.

Champlain's astrolable was made in 1603. After using It to make maps that were incred-

“tbly -aécurate-even™ by “today’s *

standards .he apparently lost it at Muskrat Lake June 7, 1613}

while exploring the Ottawa

River.

_ It was found by a woodsman fm 1867, the year of Confedera- tion. About 50 years later it was sold to a private collector in the United States for $10 and even-

tually wound up in the New York library Shortly after Computing De

Vices..was.. established._in 1958, William MacRae: a student and

A coin found there is believed to have been lost by

MONTAGUE

Mr. and Mrs. Sid Hilliard and.| |three children of Orimocto and Jennifer Annear of Fredericton, N.B.. were recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus, Martin, New -Perth, Mr. -and Mrs. Hilliard © ~have-returned—- home——while~ the ~ children remained for a two} week holiday. -

Mrs. John MacPhee. and dau- | ; ter of Chatham, N.B., are vi- siting at Heatherdale, guests of hor sister, Mrs. Martin MacDon- | ald

Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Mon- roe, Whim Road, opened the ir | home, for a surprise party. for their daughter and son-in-law,

Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Orpin of |

Brighton, Mass.» who are visit- ing here for the first time since | their marriage in 1964. An ad- | dress was read by Mrs. Rich-

|ard Campbell: Jessie Clarey pre- |

sented a gift and a purse on be- half of their friends and neigh- bors.

‘Mrs.:Fred Aitken, ower Mon- tague;°’underwent** surgery “re-+ cently in the Kings County Me- morial“Hospital. § ~

Mrs. John Clarey and sons, | Douglas, John and James have arrived from Toronto to spend | their holidays at Miltown Cross, | guests of her parents Mr. Mrs. John Nicholson.

Mr. and Mrs. RM. j Eldon, Mrs. Roddy MacPherson, Bellevue, were recent visitors to Halifax, | guests_of Mr—and “Mrs, John

Alex MacPherson...

and Edith MacLure |

| to Canada from Brouage. He ar- |Tived when he was 42, came within an ace of establishing the first permanent settlement in |North America at Port Royal (in what now is Nova Scotia? ee ee need eee ae 1608

He died in Quebec City Dee. |

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APPOINT JUDGE

OTTAWA (CP)—Mr. Justice Meredith Milner McFarlane of! the British Columbia Supreme) Court will ifi]l the vacancy on| the province’s Appeal |Justice Minister Cardin § an- nounced Friday. Mr. Justice |McKarlane .seplaces. Harry. J, ‘Sullivan who died last month. John Gould, a Vancouver law- |

|yer, will fill the vacancy in the,

Supreme Court.

ARAB ENVOY DEAD °: |

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day night. (AP Wirephote

Pope Paul VI. comforts a _, Hittle polio stricken girl, strap-

ped to inciined table, on his

visit to the Pediatrie Institute ,

Rome, Moa .

Centennial | sighted-it--—

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