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I TOGETHER AGAIN: Sun Media columnist brings family together _ ' , _ r _ _ _ "rtsp8. . Mtrtr'? apt/3. tHT-s-per/gy f IA ' COLBORNE -Thanks to a what was budgeted to be a l r .5,ifr", a. C ', _ -- .. "' ,1 to "shooting to resist arrest” :f ".""' - ---VV Mark Bonokoski column in Homeowner» ‘ , r,,slT'tTiifiir', i,' . _ vrV Lisg", J, J) when the attempted murder 'i, L-g, SEND os the April 19 Toronto Sun, He sold chocolate bars to I N C" " FgAtr, gm: l js" .. _ . * _ charge was withdrawn and, V Grp, YOUR STORY _ Suzanne Taylor was reunited help pave his track into his- . Q " 'Q' _ (lik hi f//i'irCres ’ lit, , with the collective of charges l with her dad, Jim, after two tory, and printed up special , a r; a; 'St f; it} lin ' " now dealt with, Magistrate Lemme,” ' ' ,. v"', 'F. .7 . decades. The two met at her envelopes for contributors EN; _ it” . 'rt' _i?"ag" ar, - Thomas Elmore sentenced www.morthumberlandtoday.com _ Colborne home Saturday, May that he would officially "mail" iirTir, ,f ' . ca i " rr _ _ him to four years in the peni- ' 7 2 and enjoyed reminiscing from the North Pole. _ ig C e1 "" ' _ _"'-,)':',,,, I' ‘ . C '-r?4,'FMgm _ temiary. deep for his machine. _ over photos and dinner with And then, when Suzanne a "e ;,_‘.~, » L" , yt cvrc/'-,-_'s,,iii:'ir,iiyi),'ri7i5,e;T; " Suzanne Taylor; however, According to the late Paul _ Suzanne's kids, Brittany, 19, Taylor was in her late teens, a NW: v ' , , it ' ” F" . c/i. I' _'i(s,",iii'ir('i"iri'ii'iii)%rl the daughter not yet born at Ross, his camp radio operator I and Jake, 17, : her father --hy then a suc- lit'. .. 'C, A“ it'; "d Td . .ry _ T "545 “so“; b' the time, said those hair-raisv at the time, Taylor attempted -Here's how the family cessful commercial real estate _ , ;. :2: _ "a in.» ' VV V. ‘5 _ivii?','ii'_,it,?; g’é‘aigl‘is ing exploits never came up to manually haul his m0torcy- reunion occurred. agent, licensed pilot, still a .6 E " _ ' 3is, j I. ' 1W? it) 'j/jijdi!/FrWMM 'ef, during all the years her father cle 10 km to the frozen Arctic _ . . . hellbent adventure-seeker and j, " K _ 'N, s,ii"i'rt, , ' , .f '),riiiiiiiii'i'jeiii'iiiigiB', "was in her life, Ocean where the bike's stud- - M ARK BONOKOSKI dyed-in-the-horse-hair gam- it; .' " “fig; , _ ia") is?“ 2%? ' I In fact, as best as one could ded tires might grab Mld. But y ' bler- simply disappeared off 5’1. 'l . "i, k' I "a; ritr/,sc:t)lfss 33“,.»7, _ tell, nut one of the magazine he could not make it. Suzanne " SunMedia the face ofthe Earth. ry "8 a; T 5' (iriijiC'-)'srici'i'F',"i, 2 1r,'rs,';"iai' l ‘ ' writers at the time of her Taylor has only vague memo- When Suzanne Taylor was One day he was off to 'sitH . i)' , 'il/r',)',,? §~ father's North Pole adventure, ries of all this. just a child, her derring-do Florida to make his fortune by p _ _ “:9 c' _ ir.)'i'lsritagl nor any of the other media, What she remembers most _ father-a jug-eared little man selling off a vintage 15-metre rl,:, ', 'T - We, orgies??? had dug very deep because goes back to her early who stood 5-foot-5 and yacht he had restored, suppgs. ' Eri, fir 7 ‘3, 'am " none made the connection teenaged years, long after her weighed no more than 125 lbs. edly one of only two in the t Jeff? sjr,%ta between two men who were parents divorced, spending a _' -- made international head- World, and the next he was ' - jg ' . 'rr,rtif,e'ai' , one and the same. summer in a "dumpy motel" _ . lines in the lead-up to his epic gone- never to be heard from 'iii' ' 'tfc')"',';':" ‘ Fi;." In fact, until now, it has in Port Credit, and helping her . adventure in 1975 to ride a again. . _ - - C'. _ been a 50-year secret. father restore an old yacht that motorcycle across 800 km of Sitting in the family room of . F,:i: ' " "I knew my father had he was "guing to sell to rich ice pack to the North Pole. her Colborne home, the land- ' _ yi/cd. ', served some time in the Don Americans in Florida." i _ Suzanne was searching for mark Big Apple a pie's toss ' egg-31%; p3, Jail when he was young, fur a "He was fun to be around. ' her dad, lim Taylor, who up away, 42-year-otd Suzanne , a, e 'fcLi'usii" break-in of some type," she He was exciting. He was and left town when she was Taylor, mother of two, pores " s)is"ri- says. "But, I knew about none always heading off to another Just a teen. He made headlines over yellowed newspaper clip- . of this, absolutelynone. This is adventure - scuba diving in in 1975 with his attempt to pings of herfather's North - , _ " unbelievable." Australia, or Barbados," or ride a motorcycle to the North Pole exploits: But, there was M. $lt - J im Taylor's North Pole wherever," she says. _ Pole. . one clipping she had never I adventure predictably went "l remember how he let me Jim Taylor, then approach- seen, one that predated the ‘ bust. Some likened it to going smoke, and I was only 14 at . ing 40, had captured the others byl? years. _ PETE FESHERS M di to the moon in a balloon, his the time. How cool is that? ft world’s imagination. Under the headline, " l'll kill . ' un e la mode of transportation being was like we were best friends." Some of the best magazine you, thug cries then fires," is Suzanne Taylor hugs hertather Jim In her Colborne home WI May? a Suzuki motorcycle with The yacht, as she recalled it, writers in Canada - including the story of 24-year-old James as the two matter the first time in two decades. Suzanne was In her foam-filled tires, a telescopic was called The Dane. Barry Conn Hughes A wrote McKee - alias Taylor .- who late teens when her dad disappeared, and all day May2she was ner- ski on the front, and a mm. "It was all mahogany and _ major features on his exploits, took a pot shot at Metro yous and excited about rtrconnecting with her father. "It's been won- partment that hid. two tents, teak, and about 50 ft. long. He . Jim Taylor was on television, Toronto Sgt, John Ward while deriul," she said. radio equipment, a 357. told me there were only two of on the radio, and in virtually the veteran cop was investi- , Magnum to fend off polar them in the world, and that everynewspaper worth its ink. gatingaspree ofbreak-ins. another cop giving pursuit, Christmas, 1959. bears, and rudimentary sur- the Queen of England oWned He had written to kings and It told of how McKee, who and how McKee, alias Taylor, The following Spring. Taylor vival gear. the other," she says. "Add I queens, sultans and dictators, had been married only three was eventually found hiding pleaded guilty to six break-in Less than five kilometres believed him, ofcourse. _ _ {or financial support, with 'weeks earlier, then escaped under a tarpaulin near the old charges, escaping custody)' into the journey, Jim Taylor "We lived on it, or we lived r-King Hussein ofJordan cutting custody while being cuffed, emergency entrance at and possession of a stolen found himself bogged down, in that dumpy motel," he says. a 'cheque fur 3.1.000 to help how his shoulder was Toronto General. gun, the snow drifts near his base _ ', . see him on his way towards "creased" by the gun shot of That was two weeks before He also copped a guilty plea camp on Eflésmere Island too see REUNION l Page 17 i ___ - _ F_TVre __ - -" __ i ,_ 1 _.___