49th Parallel Page #2

And now I'm gonna get so busy doing nothing.

Yes, sir, I'm gonna do nothing

like she's never been done before.

Hello, Winnipeg

Hello, Winnipeg

This is Wolstenholme calling

Wolstenholme calling.

This message to be sent on to Three Rivers.

Trois Rivieres, Quebec.

Trapper Johnnie Barras is anxious

to send a message...

... to his father, Napoleon Barras of, eh

Oh, hold on a minute

Wait a minute Wait a minute

Ah ... here ya are

Of, eh, 32 Rue Crevisse

And his mother, and his eight sisters

and six brothers ...

... to tell 'em that he's arrived safely

this evening at Wolstenholme Post ...

- ... after a successful 11 months hunting and trapping.

- [Whistles]

He says thanks for sending on

last year's mail ... and the rosary

A... And the cake that kept very well

in its airtight tin

And he says send on another one

Go on, Winnipeg

- [Beeping]

- [Man #1] Hudson Bay House, Winnipeg, speaking.

- [Man #2] Nice work, Johnnie!

This is Ed speaking.

- Hi ya!

- [Man #1] Good night, Wolstenholme. Good night.

[Beeping Continues, Stops]

Good night, Winnipeg.

Good night.

[Johnnie] "Ship time at Rangnirtung"

Say, where the ship?

I've been answering that question

till I'm fair sick and tired of it.

Not a soul comes through this post

that doesn't ask it, huskies and all.

"Where's the ship, boss?

Where's the ship?"

- Bien, alors, where is she?

- Behind the hill!

Ah, oui Bien sr.

Come on. Sit down.

Well, what's the news from home, eh?

Some good, some bad.

Everyone is well. That is good.

Business is slow. That is bad.

My father say it is because of them war rumours.

But he tell me no worry.

This Hitler is only bluffing.

And he said they all say

there will be no war this year or next year.

You look to me as I go mad.

Of course, I was forgetting.

You can't have seen a paper in over a year.

What do you mean?

- Has it happened, then?

- Sure it's happened. Bigger than the last.

Nom de dieu!

- Who fighting?

- Mostly everybody.

- Who starting first?

- Oh, the Germans, of course.

They marched in on the Poles

in September 1939.

- The Poles?

- Sure.

Ma foi, I thought all the Poles was in Canada!

No, no, Johnnie.

They've given Poland a terrible time.

Wiped out Warsaw.

And those poor refugees you know, the women

and children who tried to get away ...

... they machine-gunned them down.

[French]

The Germans are ordinary men,

same as you and me.

I wouldn't do a thing like that. Would you?

Well, you can't tell me they do.

That's all newspaper talk to try and bring us in.

Hmpf. A wee bit late, Johnnie, my lad.

We are in.

Canada, in the war?

Sure she is.

Didn't you hear the bombing tonight?

Bombing?

Was that bombing?

Sure. One of our planes went across.

Maneuvering, I suppose.

Yi-yi-yi-yi.

So, Canada, she in the war.

[Scoffs]

Pas possible

Anyhow, you can't tell me

French Canada got mixed in it too.

- I certainly can.

- Nom de dieu!

No. They're in it just the same as everybody else.

But that beat me!

I don't see what for French Canada

had to go to defend a bunch of Poles!

I don't get that at all.

I don't see what that mean to us.

Anyhow, one kind government ...

... much same like 'nother.

Yeah, you're right there.

They're all the same.

Don't get you nowhere.

Anyhow, we needn't worry about it out here.

I guess all we got to do

is just to do our jobs.

[Scoffs] Hmpf. That suit me.

- What about a wee drink, Johnnie, eh?

- That suit me too. [Laughs]

[Wind Whistling]

## [Whistling]

- Well, here's the skin off your nose.

- And off yours too, you old walrus.

[Both Chuckling]

Ay-yi-yi.

I won't sleep well tonight.

- Never do first night in real bed.

- ## [Discordant Notes]

I was just the same when I was trapping.

- Oh, but you get used to it in a couple of nights.

- [Dogs Whining, Barking]

## [Chords]

[Barking, Whining Intensifies]

Dogs are noisy tonight.

[Chuckles]

Seem like your and mine getting to know one 'other.

## [Melody]

[Wind Continues Whistling]

Aye, the wind is blowing up.

## [Accordion Continues]

## [Johnnie Singing In French]

## [Both Singing]

- [Laughing]

- A regular Montreal concert.

- Window! Door!

- Hey, what's the big idea?

- Hello.

- Move out.

- Johnnie!

- Stay where you are.

- Door locked, Herr Leutnant

- No one else here?

- Only this.

- Search him. Kranz and Lohrmann, search the other two.

You've ammunition and rifles here.

Where are they?

They're in the cupboard.

Kranz, your rifle.

Do not smash cupboard.

Cupboard's not locked.

- Where are the rifles?

- Better tell him.

- In the store.

- Which is the store?

Big building outside with the company sign.

Vogel. Kranz.

What sort of crook are you anyhow?

What's the game?

[Lohrmann] Have you people in Canada

not heard that there's a war on?

[Laughing] Sure we hear there war on!

Merde de cochon!

You ...

- German.

- Yes! German! We are German!

Okay. Why yell about it?

Moi, j'ai compris You German.

I'm Canadian, he Canadian and he Canadian.

My father fight against you last time. We give

you one good licking then, and we do it again.

Johnnie!

[Grunting]

[Wind Whistling]

- [Clock Chiming]

- [Snoring]

[Chiming Ends]

Don't any of you guy ever laugh?

The English tell us we've no sense of humour,

which means simply ...

... that our humour is different from theirs.

Ah. I tell Nick. He appreciate that.

- Nick?

- My servant, who your man kick ...

... when he answered back.

The Eskimos are racially as low as Negroes.

- What's the matter with Negroes?

- They're semi-apes, only one degree above the Jews.

Who says so?

Those are the Fhrer's own words,

from Mein Kampf

Ah, voyons!

I make my living trapping animal.

But if I was meet half-ape, I wouldn't kick him

in the stomach as you did that husky in there.

Please don't abuse our kindness. We're trying

to be friendly, but you're making it difficult.

Okay, okay, okay.

[Radio:
Beeping,

Frequencies Tuning]

## [Folk]

Do you have to waste my batteries?

- I want you to answer a few questions.

- Let's hear them first.

What transportation have you

with the outside world?

Transportation? I'll have to walk

to the railway, or else wait for the boat.

- When does the next boat arrive?

- If the weather's good, she'll be here this July.

If the ice closes,

it'll be the July after that.

- I want the truth.

- You callin' me a liar?

- Yes.

- ## [Whistling]

You ask me to believe

that you've only one ship a year?

Believe it or not,

it's all the same to me, my wee man.

- Where's the nearest railway?

- Churchill.

Churchill.

- And the nearest police post?

- Aha! You'll soon find out!

- [Laughing]

- Lake Harbour.

You seem to know all about it, eh?

- What strength is it?

- Uh, 30 men. Or is it 25, Albert?

Or two.

[French]

Where you get him?

- How 'bout this for a map?

- It makes ours look a bit out of date

Where'd you get it?

- Did you recall a missionary called Malotte?

- Malotte! Sure! You remember him, Albert?

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