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Wednesday February 10 2016 15 NORTHERNERS IN MEMORIAM Andre Airut Anyone knowing the whereabouts of please contact Annie Bellemare at 613 747-7800 ext. 2058. Miss Stache is a sophisticated and cute little lady. Isnt she just precious If you brought her home shed be so happy and give you cuddles. Please leave a message at 872-5543 for details. WESCLEAN NORTHERN SALES LTD. Ph 867 875-5100 Fax 867 875-5155 Avalon Cat Hair - long Size - medium Gender - female Avalon is a very loving and beautiful cat. She is spayed and is up-to-date with all her shots.If you think you have a home for a Avalon please call the shelter at 872-5543. Please leave a message at 872-5543 for details. WESCLEAN NORTHERN SALES LTD. Ph 867 875-5100 Fax 867 875-5155 E-mail infowescleannwt.com web www.wescleannwt.com Avalon Cat Hair - long Size - medium Gender - female Avalon is a very loving and beautiful cat. She is spayed and is up-to-date with all her shots.If you think you have a home for a Avalon please call the shelter at 872-5543. Please leave a message at 872-5543 for details. WESCLEAN NORTHERN SALES LTD. Ph 867 875-5100 Fax 867 875-5155 E-mail infowescleannwt.com web www.wescleannwt.com Avalon Cat Hair - long Size - medium Gender - female Avalon is a very loving and beautiful cat. She is spayed and is up-to-date with all her shots.If you think you have a home for a Avalon please call the shelter at 872-5543. SpayedNeutered Up-to-datewithroutineshots House trained Miss StacheFemaleAdult Black and white mix Looking for a new home Ice road pioneer killed in McBride avalanche By CRAIG GILBERT From high overhead Bualo Joe Mc- Bryan watched in wonder as the Robinson boys cut across the Northwest Territories like a hot knife through butter. The owner of Buffalo Airways recalls seeing the Robinsons Trucking crew fa- ther and company founder Richard and his sons Marvin Donny and Ricky build- ing the ice road from Great Slave Lake to Great Bear Lake through the 1960s 70s and 80s. That Robinson family of brothers with their dad those boys put the ice road through to Great Bear Lake to Echo Bay mine and north through the barrenlands to what they call Lupin Mine he told the Journal. It was so much dierent than it is today and Id be ying the Arctic in the North and Id watch them as they ploughed through making the road as they went. McBryan said the Robinsons pioneered those ice road routes. They went 300 miles across coun- try with a plough and a grader opening the road and they had a caboose behind for them all to live in McBryan said. It wasnt like today were used to the dia- mond mine roads where its like a super- B highway you know To head from lake to lake when you flew by it looked like a choo-choo train kind of. This was long before we even knew we had diamonds so they did it the old school way. Thats what they should be recognized for. We respected what they were able to do at the time with the equipment they had. We were flying overhead watching them down there and they were slugging it out pretty good. It was hats off to them. McBryan was among those saddened to learn Ricky was one of ve Alberta men killed in an avalanche near McBride B.C. on Jan. 29. The snowmobilers were killed when the human-triggered avalanche buried three separate groups of riders in the back- country about 200 kilometres southwest of Prince George. Dave MacNevin wrote in Toronto-based magazine Todays Trucking that he worked with Robinson for ve years describing RTL as the largest and most successful ice road trucking company in the world. He was a big man with a giant heart MacNevin wrote. Robinson was never one to don a suit or sit at a desk. His years at RTL were in coveralls either fixing a truck or loading it. A hard-working kind- hearted man he was famous for helping those in need. The avalanche also killed Vincent Loewen 52 Todd Chisholm 47 Tony Greenwood 41 and John Garley 49 all from Alberta. Robinson is survived by his wife Roxanne and daughter Brittney. A celebration of life was held in Stony Plain AB on Feb. 5. The family asked for contributions to the SPCA of the donors choice or the Alzheimers So- ciety of Canada in lieu of owers. MacNevin said Ricky and Roxanne had been enjoying travelling and visiting friends in recent years. The family sold the busi- ness to Tri West Capital in 2006 and shortly after RTL was joined with Westcan Bulk Transport to form the RTL-Westcan Group of Companies. It was founded in Yellowknife in 1968 as Robinsons Trucking Ltd. The company ex- panded to Enterprise Peace River and Ed- monton eventually rebranding as RTL Rob- inson Enterprises and evolving into a trans- port construction and logistics company. Roxanne and Ricky Robinson in an undated photo. PhotocourtesyofRoxanneRobinsonFacebook