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The Lesson ~ [Patrick Lalonde] was born 1889 ~ Treaty 8 would be signed in 1898, the province of Alberta not created til 1905. I met him in 1966 when he was founder and president of the Canadian Indian and Metis Progress League, and knew him til his death. He was involved in the very early years of the Alberta Indian Association. He homesteaded in the Peace district, farmed at Driftpile, had land in Grouard, trapped, worked as a carpenter, settled in Faust. His travelling was motivated by opportunity, and partly caused by bureaucratic interference ~ in his case usually an Indian agent. This is also heard from people on the lakes north of our big lake. There, in the early days, so the old people have told, when bureaucratic meddling disturbed them, some would move their families farther north to another small lake. We know they soon ran out of lakes. Upon gentle prodding, Pat Lalonde might relate to me something of his life, sometimes prefaced with "I don't want to hurt you" ~ for he found it painful to relate of an injustice done by one of my race. I thank him for that. I was at a visit of Pat with [Jean Chancelet] ~ who came from France, walked from Edmonton with three oxen in 1910 and farmed at Grouard, McLennan, High Prairie, Girouxville. They were kindred spirits and fell into an easy conversation in French. They respected each other and their lives. It is what bureaucrats lack. Now I know what it's like ~ and that's the lesson. 'I don't want to hurt you.' ____________________________________________________________
Adam's Acreage ~ The [Company of Young Canadians] in 1969 paid each of us an honorarium of $50 for every month served, and Alona and I needed to decide what to do ~ where to go (throw a dart at a spinning globe?). We decided for [Faust]. Purchased lots 15 and 16 of Adams' Acreage (plan 1540ET) from an old Swede (Gunnar Odegaard) for $50 an acre. It had an aged log house (left by Bruneau?) on lot 16 in which we lived til it burned; Art Newman had a foxfarm on lot 15 until after the war. (Garth Lodge remembers the Adams residence at the corner of first street west and first avenue south.) We had three daughters on that land, and we raised them as the pioneers and the Cree we had found here ~ making our way from day to day, eating from the garden and animals, heating the new-built log house with firewood, on our fifteen acres. During the seventies the world changed and we became relics at a young age (old people visited to say it made them happy to see their way of life validated). We were heartened for a time by a small group of back-to-the-land enthusiasts and years were spent co-operatively building houses and other large homestead projects that grew into a North Country Community Association. ___________________________________________________________________________ |
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beautiful rural hamlet along the shore where within the last decade or so population doubles in summer with daytrippers, vacationers and tourists, and properties are purchased for holiday cabins other nearby hamlets are rapidly becoming (or are already) bedroom communities with high-end residences little room is left for long-time residents
my own rural residential lifestyle on fifteen acres (of now prime location) yields the
municipality $200 in assessment revenue annually
while everything written below ('take my money ~ earn my contempt') is true and stands, municipal
law easily overpowers any and all of it (and i do not expect the minister ~ nor the member
of the legislative assembly and member of parliament, to answer my plea)
this is why i am an [anarchist],
for none can have power over another without serious deleterious consequences to a free and
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Machinations of Bureaucracy how I lost the vote 
When I purchased our land (two lots of Adam's Acreage) in Faust in 1969 we received one title.Alberta Municipal Affairs administered the property tax administration directly and we were issued annually two separate Assessment Notices for lots 15 and 16. In 2001 we put both our names on the title as owners of an estate in fee simple PLAN 1540ET, LOTS 15 AND 16. 
1970
The MD combined the tax notices on its taxroll for administrative purposes.
MD website Summer 2009
 Property identified as Lot 15 Block 1 (Sep 18) 
November 2 2009 Lot 16 has disappeared and parcel survey boundary line erased, we lose a vote. The same fate has befallen Lot 9 and Lot 10. (The clumsy revision is obvious.) Two new subdivisions, each with a vote ~ which they were essentially able to buy. Obviously, I should have anticipated this descent into rampant development, subdivided my frontage into thirteen lots and gain as many votes.  Lots 16 and 10 cannot vote. 
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~ and the numbers are always different
a timeline
may 2008 ~ spearheaded by above developer
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o freedom and democracy
at the municipal building
in the village
on his plot of land the old man works and rests
king, protect him from your underling
freedom to be left alone is really all we have
o freedom and democracy
those veterans who fought and died for freedom and democracy albert
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 the civic responsibility of the above letterwriter fills me with respect and admiration for my elder neighbour, who by example showed me that however hurtful and stressful the process, it should not blind us to the opportunity for a longterm benefit to the community
statement 2010 05 23
we have experienced this process as an attack on our way of life, and an attempt to compromise our
land ownership
it is noted in council minutes 2010 04 26 that discussion took place on maximum lot density [MGA s632 stipulates council must by bylaw adopt a municipal development plan; s633 area structure plan must describe sequence of development, land use, density of population, proposed; s636 in preparing these statutory plans the municipality must provide means of representations and notify the public; s639 must pass a land use bylaw]
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councillor x phoned resident y and advised that if the development proponents come back with
another request or petition council will throw up its hands and cancel the entire project
to my letterwriting neighbour we have the high ground
i support this and take it as a contribution to the community's long-term benefit
a land use document review need be pursued cautiously in an unhurried way
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THIEF! 
JULY 28 2010
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