On Saturday, October 26, 2013 9:36:34 PM, Roland Francis wrote: >"Tigers in Canada?" - Tim de Mello and Mervyn Lobo. > Chinese laborers were indeed attacked by tigers, mountain lynx and > other big cats and wolves. Read J M Gibbon's Steel of Empire - A > Romantic History of the Canadian Pacific, Today's Northwest Passage. > or The New West by G H Ham. By the way the Caspian variety were > found in several diverse climatic areas of the world, becoming extinct > only in in the last decade of the nineteenth century well after the Canadian > Pacific Railroad was built. How did they land in the Canadian Rockies > and Pacific? Probably with their main staple the wild boar which were > once plentiful in that region.
Folks, Every Canadian knows that there have not been tigers living in the Canadian wilderness. Tim and I tried to close the gap in Roland's knowledge, pointing out that he had made an error. Roland, to my amazement chose to move deeper into the muck, insisting that tigers and specifically the "Caspian" variety were found in Canada. You know, Caspian/Canadian, sounds the same, and that is enough for Roland. I have started to realise that Goanet is probably the best place to go to when you want to be entertained by old men who insist on turning errors into blunders. Whenever an error is pointed out, the usual response is to take it to a lower level. Instead of accepting the light, they seek the familiarity of muck. As such, I had to read, re-read and read again Roland's contention of, "How did they land in the Canadian Rockies and Pacific? Probably with their main staple the wild boar which were once plentiful in that region" just to figure out if he was trying to be funny or if he was actually serious. I am convinced that he was trying to be funny. After all, the title of his post is, "The Joy of the Journey." Speaking of which, the public were enjoying train trips in Canada as early as 1836 i.e. long before trains were introduced to India. Roland, you bring joy to our journey. You are the first Goan to declare that there were tigers in Canada. I look forward to even more of your bizarre statements and thoughts. Mervyn
