Author's reflections give 'snapshot' of mid-century Port Hardy
Michel Drouin’s memoir explores growing up in an isolated rugged little coastal community
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Michel Drouin’s memoir explores growing up in an isolated rugged little coastal community
COURTENAY, B.C. -- A Port McNeill man is on a mission to try to help solve a decades-old mystery that dates back to when a helicopter went missing off the north end of Vancouver Island. Teddy Masales was the pilot and lone occupant of a Robertson R-22 that disappeared on the evening of Sept. 25, 1997, after being turned away from the Port Hardy airport. The chopper was denied landing at the airport because a scheduled flight was coming in from Vancouver and it was believed that Masales flew a short distance away to wait for clearance, but then disappeared. No trace of the pilot nor the...