LAC LA BICHE – A SHORT HISTORY by Ralph Bice December 3, 1973 I managed to borrow from the Centre Libary a very fine history of the little town of Lac La Biche. That name was given to the lake by the early French trappers and means, I believe, ‘Lake of the Little Deer’. The […]
WEATHER DÉJÀ VU by Ralph Bice December 12, 1973 Note: Although written in 1973 readers may wish to compare to 2024. Y.T. This fall, 1973, will be remembered as one of the very mild falls we have had. Listening to the weather reports on the radio or T.V. we heard several times that old records […]
THE SECOND WEEK (of the deer season) by Ralph Bice November 28, 1973 There were still, in spite of the very poor hunting the first week, quite a number of hunters around for the second week. The weather was a bit on the cool side but there was snow and not a day where weather […]
AFTER THE FIRST WEEK (of deer season) by Ralph Bice November 21, 1973 This is not to be, “Well, I told you so”, but just a short summary of the first week of deer season. We will start with partridge. Last spring I made a rather long range forecast that the partridge hunting would not […]
ABOUT LOONS by Ralph Bice November 7, 1973 Recently I remarked about young loons being around after the parent birds had headed south. I do know there have been some reports of these juvenile loons being caught in an early freeze up but they are rare. The eggs are usually hatched by the first week […]
THANKSGIVING WEEKEND by Ralph Bice October 16, 1973 The last weekend, besides being about the last holiday weekend of the summer season, will be remembered as just about the nicest one we have had. The fact that it was Thanksgiving weekend made it even better as a great many people made their last trip to […]
