Jack Curran

R.C. Lane

Ernest Hart

Tim Wilson

In the latest in the Eye Witness series, two stories of slice of Canadian life are told. In &quot;Transport on Trial&quot;, the viewer is taken to the Canadian Army&apos;s Vehicle Experimental and Proving Establishment outside of Ottawa, it wher...

Grant Crabtree

Hector Lemieux

Eye Witness No. 92

In the latest in the Eye Witness series, two stories of slice of Canadian life are told. In "Transport on Trial", the viewer is taken to the Canadian Army's Vehicle Experimental and Proving Establishment outside of Ottawa, it where they test ground vehicles of all sorts for use in the army. Because of the important military nature of these vehicles, they go through rigorous testing in a variety of conditions to mimic what would happen "on the ground". The facility is also a research and design one where prototypes are built for that testing. Where appropriate, some of the vehicles or vehicle parts can actually go into commercial use. And in "Cape Breton's Contented Chairmaker", a profile of Ernest Hart is presented. Living in the Margaree Valley of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, where many people still live what would be considered old fashioned lives in retaining the ways of their parents and their parents before them, factory owner and operator Hart is a one-person Jack-of-All-Trades, he doing whatever he can to assist his sheep farmer neighbors, for such unusual tasks as preparing their wool for spinning. But arguably his greatest accomplishment is making wooden chairs the old-fashioned way without nails or glue. He does everything from start to finish, including weaving the seats out of flexible strips of black ash. Taking on average two days to make one chair, Hart, or a piece of him, is in most of his neighbor's homes in he having built their chairs. This craft may end with him as technology and other interests take over future generations even within his family.

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