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"SEND SIX TO PRISON FOR THEFT," North Bay Nugget. May 18, 1943. Page 14. ---- Two Get Penitentiary Terms for Stealing Auto in Mattawa --- Phillippe Grenier [TOP] and Ormond Foubert, both of Montreal, were found guilty when they appeared before Magistrate M. G. Gould in North Bay police court on Monday afternoon on a charge of stealing a car in Mattawa on April 28. Each was sentenced to two years and three months in Kingston penitentiary.

Isadore Grenier, Andre Coursol, Gregor Larocque and Fernand Beausoleil, also of Montreal, charged jointly with the first two men were given sentences of one year each at Burwash Industrial Farm. Coursol pleaded guilty; the others, not guilty.

Heavier sentences were handed out to the first two because each had a previous conviction on a theft charge.

Three witnesses were heard. Murray Kolvinko of Mattawa, owner of the car, told of seeing the six in Mattawa on the morning of the theft, of talking with them and of identifying them later in a Toronto police station.

Mrs. Amy Granfield of Toronto identified two of the accused as being members of a party of six who had parked a car behind a garage at the rear of her property on April 28 and had failed to return for it.

Joseph Shield, a member of the Toronto detective force, told of the arrest on the afternoon of April 28, of the six near where the car was abandoned and very soon after that took place. He told also of finding on the person of one of the accused a number of "postage due" stamps used by the owner of the car in his duties as mail courier. Found also in a cell occupied by the accused had been ration books bearing the name of the victim of the theft.

Before passing sentence, Magistrate Gould said: "While the failure of the accused to give evidence is by no means conclusive against them, still it is a matter to be considered, when joined to the fact that all five who pleaded not guilty were found in Toronto with the one who pleaded guilty and also with the fact that two of them have been definitely identified." Continuing the magistrate said that identification was sufficient to involve all six in the theft.

Crown Attorney E. A. Tilley conducted the prosecution and Arthur Courtmanche was interpreter.

[AL: Grenier was 22, married, a truck driver and had served a two year term at St Vincent de Paul Penitentiary. He was convict #7309 at Kingston Penitentiary and worked in a broom factory - he was transferred August 1943 to Collin's Bay Penitentiary, the lower security camp. There he was inmate #2109 and was released February 1945. Foubert was 22, single, a construction welder by trade, and had done time in Montreal and Ontario prisons. He was convict #7310 at Kingston Penitentiary and worked in the change room. He was a difficult prisoner and reported five times for insolence or poor conduct. He was transferred August 1944 to Collin's Bay Penitentiary, and released in early 1945.]

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— Adonis, translated by Khaled Mattawa

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Attention

by Saadi Youssef tr. Khaled Mattawa

Those who come by me passing I will remember them, and those who come heavy and overbearing I will forget.

This is why when air gushes between mountains we describe the wind and forget the rocks.

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Blood is our secret ink.

— Fatima Mahmoud, The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology, transl by Khaled Mattawa, (2001)

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Is this really the world? Shall I grieve? Shall I hope?

Adonis, tr. by Khaled Mattawa

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home is the first grave

Karen Russell St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves / unknown / @/southern-gothic-decay (on tumblr) / Adonis (tr. Khaled Mattawa) excerpt from Body, "Selected Poems" / unknown / Mary Oliver Metamorphosque / Nikki Giovanni excerpt from Adulthood II, "Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day" / Warsan Shire excerpt from Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems / Team Dresch Uncle Phranc / @/elsiewarrenswords (on tumblr) / Wych elm Susan Smith

i. Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

[ "her own bedroom. When she was very small, she would wake up tearing at her bedspread and shrieking, 'I wanna go home! I wanna go home!' Which was distressing to all of us, of course, because she was home." ]

ii. unknown

[ "FUCK YOU IF YOU EVER TOUCH ME AGAIN / I'LL SHOVE MY HANDS DOWN YOUR THROAT / AND RIP OUT THE VERY HEART YOU STOLE FROM ME / UNTIL YOU CAN'T BREATHE AND THE HAUNTING / IMAGES FILL YOUR BRAIN AND THE BUGS / EAT YOUR REMAINS THERE WILL BE NO / REMORSE FROM ME AND I HOPE OU ROT IN THE GRAVE / YOU STOLE MY CHILDHOOD FROM ME YOU PIECE OF SHIT" ]

iii. @/southern-gothic-decay

[ "2. You can always make things more difficult. Draw it out. Make it interesting. Oh, you don't want to follow someone else's blueprints? Oh, you want to create something new? Too bad. We can't all be architects. Some of us were born to lay the bricks. Some of us were born to hide the bodies. You've been building this house since you were born, just like your father. Just like your father, you will not live to see it finished. The house has been a nursery. The house has been a burial site. The house is swallowing bodies before the blood has dried. Your inheritance is a knife's edge. Your inheritance is a culling. When the time comes, even your coffin will be a family heirloom. Come, make sure the measurements are right." ]

iv. Adonis (tr. Khaled Mattawa), Body

[ "And his ghosts said: Let's move on / Before the body is piling itself upon itself / secret by secret / Rot is also a heart / rot is also childhood / rot is also what love is" ]

v. Mary Oliver, Metamorphosque

[ "In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be." ]

vi. Nikki Giovanni, Adulthood II

[ "There is always something / of the child / in us that wants / a strong hand to hold / through the hungry season / of growing up" ]

vii. Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

[ "Mama, I made it / out of our home / alive, raised by / the voices in my head." ]

viii. Team Dresch, Uncle Phranc

[ "My mom says she loves me / But i don't think it's love / Cause she only loves me / When i act just like she does // And that's emotional blackmail" ]

ix. @/elsiewarrenswords

[ "I think that's what happens when you've lived a lonely childhood. You get too attached to people as you get older, in the hope that they'll give you the care and love that you missed out on and never leave you." ]

x. Wych elm, Susan Smith

[ "Why'd you do this to me / I was your baby / You made me" ]

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Is this really the world? Shall i grieve? Shall i hope?

// Adonis, tr. by Khaled Mattawa, Selected Poems

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"WORKS 2 MONTHS IN NORTH HAS FARM SNATCHED AWAY," Toronto Star. October 17, 1933. Page 33 & 35. ---- Grimsby Man Says Government Mistake Costly to Him and Family --- FEARS "PULL" FELT ---- Special to The Star Grimsby, Oct. 17. - To have his new home snatched from his grasp by the Ontario government and on Friday the 13th, was the experience of Edward Hearn, young Grimsby man and son of Thomas Hearn, veteran of the 75th battalion.

Unable to secure work here, Hearn went north and, with the aid of a crown lands agent, located on land near Mattawa. He claimed he was given promises by the same agent that the government would build a connecting road to the highway and employ all the settlers on certain lands. He worked from daylight till dark for weeks, clearing the land and building a cabin for his wife and child. When it was about finished he came back to get his family, but just before they were ready to leave for their new home he was notified by a government official that he could not have the land.

"I left Grimsby July 30 last with a friend. Bert Gilvear." said Mr. Hearn. "At Mattawa I went to see Mr. McDonald, the crown lands agent there. Mr. McDonald showed us dif ferent parcels of land on which he said I could locate. Mr. McDonald told me there was a timber limit be- tween the 100 acres I selected and the trans-Canada highway, about a mile away, and also on one side, but that this 100 acres and four or five other lots were crown land and free. McDonald staked out the two front corners of the property for me. I signed the forms and paid my fee of one dollar at his office, located in his house at Mattawa, on Aug. 12.

"Next day. Aug. 13. I started to work on my land, clearing and building a cabin of logs. I lived in a tent I had taken with me and used all my own equipment. McDonald came to see me later and told me that as soon as the other four or five lots were taken the government intended to build a road connecting the properties with the trans-Canada highway and that we would all be given work.

Finished Cabin "I got my cabin pretty well finished and did some work at constructing a road to my neighbor's property. Then I came back to Grimsby to get my wife and child and our belongings. My brother, Stanley Hearn, also decided to take his wife and child up to the same place and locate near my property.

"My wife had been working long hours in a Grimsby canning factory earning what little she could to- wards our winter's supplies. At nights when she came home from work she preserved fruits and jam to take with us.

"We had all plans made to leave for our new home on Tuesday next, Oct. 17, when on Friday, Oct. 13, I received the following letter:

""North Bay, Oct. 12, 1933. Edward Hearn, Grimsby. 'Dear Sir: Having reference to your application to locate lot 24, con- cession 19, township of Cameron This lot is held under timber license and the licensee objects to the location as he expects to operate in the near future. The department will not entertain your application at the present time. Yours truly. "J. T. MCDOUGALL Crown Lands Agent

Should Know Better "I worked from daylight to dark all alone getting a home ready for my family and now I don't know what to do and don't know where I am at," Mr. Hearn declared. "There is something wrong some place. When the crown lands agent went so far as to stake the property for me himself after accepting my claim and fees and then promised work from the government at building a new road-surely he knew what he was doing. Mention of the new road was certainly an inducement to me to locate there. If he doesn't know what he's doing, why is he there?

"It just looks to me as though somebody with a pull suddenly discovered there was some nice timber on the land and wants it. The whole thing is absolutely unfair. I went there in good faith and worked many long hours making a little home for my family. Rather than go on relief in Grimsby my wife and I decided to go north and try to establish a new start for ourselves. The letter I received is very curt. It doesn't even suggest a mistake has been made and that I might locate elsewhere or receive any remuneration for the work I have already done. My tent and equipment is all there. Even if I did locate some place else there's no time between now and winter to clear land and build another cabin. Even if I did, how do I know they wouldn't pull the same trick over again? When the government uses a man in this way, what inducement is there for a man to try and help himself along? To me, it's just like stealing money the way they are stealing my home. We would have been in one fine mess if we had left here a day before the letter came, wouldn't we?"

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Adonis, Motion (tr. Khaled Mattawa)

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Adonis, excerpt from “Love” in Adonis: Selected Poems (tr. by Khaled Mattawa)