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_ Page 4, Tuesday; October-27, 1992 Jays "chop" down their competition After joining the Major Leagues 16 years ago, the Toronto Blue Jays have won the World Series and Canadian fans have a world-class team to cheer for. Although the Jays' feature players from Carribean countries, the Dominican Republic and the U.S., the team is Canadian at heart with fans from B.C. to Newfoundland who watched and cheered the Blue Jays bring the championship to Canada. After the Blue Jays lost their first game in the American League Championship against Oakland, many Canadian fans were thinking the Jays were going to choke again. But the team rallied to win the series, much to the chagrin of Americans and to the delight of the Canadian fans. It was on to Atlanta to meet the Braves. The Blue Jays lost the first game in the series but bounced back the next. During the opening ceremonies, the Canadian flag was raised upside down. Anyone who has seen leaves knows that the stem goes on the bottom, not on the top. But the slight didn't affect the Jays' play as they won the game in dramatic fashion. I think every Canadian watching the second game was sitting on the edge of their seats, especially in the top of the ninth when the Jays scored two runs to win the game. And what about the third game, played for the first time on Canadian soil. The Blue Jays once again won in dramatic fashion, both in the field and at the plate. The fourth game followed the same pattern as the previous two, and with one game left to play in Toronto, fans were thinking Sweep as the Jays" were'one game' away from bringirig" the World Series to Canada... « « -.-.6 5 en But that dream of winning on Canadian soil died when the Braves' hit a grand slam winning game five handily, 7-2. Canadian fans would have to settle watching the Jays' on television. I think every Canadian was saying that dreaded word "choke" again, until the game Saturday began and the Jays' scored first. Leading most of the game by one, everyone thought with Henke on the mound in the ninth it was time to break out the champagne. It was the ninth inning that almost cost Canada's first World Series entrant the game as the Braves' scored one to tie. But in a nail-biter of a game (and a series) the Jays' pulled it off. With the nation cheering on. What started out as a dream became reality. The 16 year-old team had its first World Series--definitely not its last. ee we Pe < continued on page 15 The Nipigon-Red Rock Gazette and the Terrace Bay-Schrelber News are members of Laurentian Newspapers Limited 158 Elgin Street, Sudbury; Ontario. 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Our Opinion Some history behind the names of Canadian places Just got back from a trip to Pile O'Bones, Saskatchewan. Well, that's what the Indians used to call it. Wascana. It's plains Cree for Pile O'Bones. When the white men came to take over the place a couple of centuries ago, they decided 'the drab and colourless and utterly tight- sphinctered sobriquet of "Regina'. I prefer Pile O' Bones. Much more picturesque. Indeed, we Johnny-Come- Latelys owe the natives a lo for some of the more colourful 'Canadian' place names we tak for granted. Saskatchewan.. Manitoba...Ontario--all native : Indian names, or corruptions = thereof. I grew up in a suburb = called Etobicoke just a: tomahawk throw from downtown Toronto. 'Etobicoke' is a Huron word for "land or the alders". "Toronto" is a word the Wyandot Indians used to mean "place of plenty". Kamloops, Medicine Hat, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, ¥ 4 Mississauga-there's not a § >. province in the country that " ; doesn't immortalize the people Art who first knew this land. Quebec has an Igaluit and a Maniwaki. New Brunswick has the magnificent Kouchibouguac which means "river of the long tideway" in Micmac. Nova Scotians call Antigonish and Pubnico home. Antigonish translates as "where the branches are tom off". Pubnico derives from a Micmac Word meaning "dry sandy place". Ever wonder where the 'Klondjke' Gold Rush got its name? From an Athapaskan phrase which translates roughly as "hammer water". For centuries, nomadic tribes would camp on the shores of the river and hammer long wooden stakes into the river bed to trap salmon during the spring migration. Hence the name. Speaking of spring migrations, the month of may traditionally sees tens of thousands of Torontonians clogging the northbound the name lacked dignity, so they changed it to, _ ur Black highways bound for their summer hideouts in Muskoka country. I wonder how many of them know that the name commemorates an ancient Ojibway chief by the name of Misquuckkey? He ruled the place until British bureaucrats flim-flammed him into signing over the land - rights back in 1815.09 oon Head-Smashed-In-Buffalo-Jump, Musquadoboit Bay, Skookumchuck Rapids, Richibucto Harbour....the native legacy unravels like a never-ending wampum belt. Mind you, some times you get fooled. I spent some years in northwestern Ontario partly because I fell in love with the wonderful Indian names that adorned the place. Shuniah, Nipigon, Batchawana...I particularly liked the name of a northem town called Nolalu. And a park I loved to canoe in: Quetico. It was a couple of years before I discovered that 'Nolalu' was an acronym for a no-nonsense firm of tree haulers called Northern Lake and Lumber. Later I - discovered that 'Quetico', is what was stamped on logs owned by the Quebec Timber Company. You can't always believe your eyes. Take the town of Twillingate, out in Newfoundland. Was there ever a more English sounding name? Twillingate. Virtually reeks of brollies and bowlers and stiff-upper-lippery, eh wot? Well, not really. Tums out it derives from a French place name--Pointe de Toulinguet, in Brittany. Well, how about that quintessentially Indian name? The one used by the New York state city of...Buffalo? Sorry, Cocheese. The city actually gets its name from an Anglicized corruption of a French phrase--Beau Fleuve--which means 'beautiful river. Just as well we forgot that, I guess. Who'd ever pay to watch a football team called the Beautiful River Bisons?