Dave Morrison:  

Life As a young man of seventeen I travelled north to Yellowknife and worked in the high arctic during the winter. My job took me way up north of the arctic circle, to places like Tuktoyuktuk, Coppermine, Cambridge bay, Gjoe haven , Norman wells, I have even been in Alert, the farthest north inhabited place on the planet. All that is in alert is a D.E.W. line station, (Distant Early Warning). There are Dew line stations all across the arctic, ( I think I can say that, I don’t think it is a national secret anymore) The Dew line is operated by the U.S. Air force, and there purpose is to detect missiles and heavy bombers flying over the north pole. My summers in the land of the midnight sun back in YK were good, I had bought a 1978 Ford bronco, it was 1979 so it was fairly new, and as a young guy with a cool set of wheels and pockets of cash I had a lot of fun. By 1984 I had enough of the north and got married and moved south, I decided that I needed more challenging work, and took an interest in machinery design. It had been a hard long road, but now I design machines and build them. I also work as an automation control consultant on new cutting edge robotic vessel construction machinery. I designed a twelve circuit equal volume (unified) hydraulic oil delivery system , that has made more than a million dollars in it’s first six months of use. No I don’t get much of that. I have four kids, Simon he is nearly eighteen now, Erin, she is going to be sixteen soon, Nancy, she is fourteen going on twenty, and Sharon she is twelve. Margaret is my wife, and we have been together for twenty years now. The company I am working for is trying to get me a green card so they can transfer me to the Norco Louisiana office. If my green card application is accepted I will be going Stateside. I raced stock cars, and drove IMCA modifieds and An outlaw sprint 410 sprint car. I won rookie of the year honours and lots of races, crashed lots of stuff up too, That’s racing they say. I still carry some pain from my driving days. I gave up racing when I decided it required too much of my time, I really enjoy going to the lake and boating and racing gave mo time for that, also, Margaret was getting scared as I was driving for car owners rather than my own cars. They were faster and more powerful cars, that crashed real hard when the wheels come off them. So I settled down, I miss racing, now I don’t even go to track, its like an addiction, if I go to the track I will have to find a ride and start driving again, so I stay away. That adrenalin kick each week is hard to walk away from. Now I have a place in the city ...Expand for more