The Icelandic Canadian - 01.12.2008, Page 48

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THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
Vol. 62 #1
Clarification
Dear Sir or Madam,
I enjoyed reading the short article in Volume 61, #4 of the Icelandic Canadian about
Devon Lodge, the cottage built in Gimli in 1922 by my grandfather, Alfred Whiteway. I
would be remiss in not pointing out, however, that while I’ve written (under my pseudonym
C. C. Benison) portions of five novels at Devon Lodge, none of them have included a scene in
which a drug deal was completed at Gimli’s Falcon Restaurant in the 1960s, as the article
states. While the notion of setting a fictional drug deal at the Falcon is certainly attractive, I
believe such a transaction has already been ably portrayed, in Cold Adventure, a young adult
novel partly set in Gimli, written in 1959 by Violet Paula Ingaldson, with whom I seem to have
been inadvertently mixed up. Elsewhere, I might add, for the sake of family history, that 1 am
Murray Whiteway’s nephew, not his son, as stated in the article. My father’s name was the
same as mine - Doug.
Kind regards,
Doug Whiteway
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