Gabby relieves the Adventure
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Delgado was a university student in Veracruz when he first met the Starkells nine years ago. Jeff Starkell, who had come that far with his brother and father, had just returned to Winnipeg, convinced that to continue the canoe trip would be suicide.
Their first attempt at crossing the Gulf of Mexico had nearly killed the three of them. They were grounded in Veracruz for three months, waiting for spring to bring calmer waters to the gulf and in the meantime, were searching for someone to replace Jeff.
Most Mexicans assumed Don and Dana were crazy when they said they had paddled to Mexico from Winnipeg, Delgado laughs. Did he believe them? “Their skin was black and their hair white. It was incredible, but yes.”
Delgado befriended the duo, rescuing them from their stifling, ant-infested hotel and bringing them to live in his boarding house. There, the Starkells learned Spanish and Delgado learned English, and a strong bond developed.
For so many months, Dana explains, he and his father had come to block out everything that didn’t relate to their survival. Now Gabby, as he calls himself, was part of that survival. He helped them get needed supplies, translate for the various immigration officials, and keep them out of trouble in a different country.
For Gabby, the Starkells were the first Canadians he had ever met. Their trip sounded fantastic and more and more he began to think about joining them.
At the time, Delgado says, he was struggling to overcome what was the start of a drug habit. “I was a little bit into drugs. Life was not going well.”
Gabby looked at the Starkell challenge as an opportunity to turn his life around, and build his self-esteem.
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The Dirty Thirties – Effects on Manitobans
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The “Dirty 30’s” which to most Canadians represented the times of the economic depression which followed the marker of the stock market crash had more than a major effect on manitobans and prairie people who lived through it. It served as an indelible marker on their lives. On the other side of the fence many of the social programs which Canadians and even Americans to some degree now enjoy came out of those shaping times. Stanley Knowles , the veteran Canadian policymaker and consummate CCF and later NDP politican was forever influenced by the memory of 3 brothers , who shared one pair of pants , and could therefore only go out one at a time . These memories were forever left on the people who lived through the “Great Depression” and the “Dirty Thirties” of the Canadian Prairies.
Farmers across Canada itself were struggling all the time to cope with the suffering and sufferings brought on by this great depression. In Manitoba itself , farming was the backbone of the provincial economy. When farmers suffered the province of Manitoba suffered. Annual per capita income in Manitoba declined from $ 466 in 1929 to $ 240 in 1933. Although Manitoba’s economy was less dependent on wheat and the wheat crop than that of Saskatchewan and Alberta ” the economic support of nearly 40 % of Manitoba’s population virtually collapsed” due to the large drop in grain prices according to the report of Roswell-Sirois Royal Commission on Dominion Provincial Relations which was released much later in 1940 , just as the world was beginning to come out of economic doldrums due to war in Europe. The co-relation was no news to the fine people of Winnipeg and rural Manitoba.
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What Ever Happened to the Terry Fox Trademark Van ?
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Most Canadians remember Terry Fox who in 1980 attempted to cross Canada on his “Marathon of Hope”. Terry Fox’s signature wherever he went became his Ford Econoline van. The question became “What ever happened to that van “?”. Hundred’s of thousands of Canadians came to recognize that vehicle – the trademark Ford Econoline van as the Terry Fox van approached their communities.
When Terry Fox had to stop his run , just outside of Thunder Bay Ontario – where a memorial now is erected in his honour, the van was left behind. Terry’s cancer had unfortunately returned.
But what of the van too ? It turns out the van was sitting on a street in East Vancouver British Columbia ( Canadian province of BC). It basically has been unaltered throughout the years. The van had been loant to Terry by the Ford Motor Company of Canada, was returned to Ford. At some point the vehicle was sold and later driven from Ontario to B.C. to a heavy metal rock and roll band that used it to tour North America. The previous Terry Fox van served its new owners – the rock and roll band very well over their and the van’s career