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I eagerly downloaded the software and tried it out immediately. Then by mere luck – and we need it when we do work like this on the Internet – I stumbled across a comment made in a users forum to the effect that a program with the promising title docXConverter by Panergy might just do the trick. The Castle that Bill Laux built – Photo Taken in 1977
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It is free and but accepts donations for further development. I tried it with no success, but learned on the side that it is otherwise a very powerful word processor that can easily read and write Word document files. Someone suggested downloading the open source software Abiword, whose claim to fame is that it can read all kinds of text files without any gibberish on the screen. In other words there was a real dearth of information on the Internet. But many forum contributors were also unhappy with MicroSoft Word not being able to read files with the cwk extension. There were a lot of complaints against the Apple Company, which did not produce a single program that was backward compatible with their old product. I decided against this odd solution, which may be fine for just a few files, but with hundreds of files that would have turned into a nightmare. Some offered very lame solutions: Load the file into word processor X, wade through the first 4 pages through a jungle of gibberish, delete it and you are left with just the text. For information I visited Apple and MS Word forums. The search was on for software that would convert Bill Laux’s ClarisWorks files into Word documents. Patience and Persistence Pave the Road to Success Both railroads and mining are intimately connected with each other, as one could not exist without the other. The second book focuses on the era of the mining industry in the Kootenays. The book that I published last year was on the colourful history of the railroads. In doing so I hope to pay homage to a great local artist, writer and castle builder, who died too soon to see his historical research published. As I publish them one chapter at a time, I will also make them available to the Arrow Lakes Historical Society headquartered in Nakusp. It took me considerable time and effort to have these data decoded.
The data that I found were recorded in the ancient Apple format. When looking through the archives at the Fauquier Communication Centre, where Bill Laux’s unpublished works are located, I came across a few old floppy disks that contained among other documents two of his major unpublished books on the railroad and mining history in the Kootenays. Bill is known for his endeavours as an artist, a writer, a builder of buildings made of mud-cement bricks, a small hydroelectric plant operator, as well as an exotic evergreen tree nurseryman. He published many magazine articles, though his books are unpublished. In the early 1980s Bill started a new career as historian searching out the stories and locations of the early mines and railways of the West Kootenays and eastern Washington state. A couple of years later, the Wises sold the business to the Laux’s who continued making and selling batiks, an enterprise Bill continued for many years after Adele’s death. Bill and Adele immigrated to Canada in late 1962, where they were apprentices to Jack and Janie Ise of Vaki Batiks who moved their business from Mexico to Cedar Springs Farm, south of Fauquier on the lakeshore.
While at Yosemite he met and married his wife, Adele Osborne. First with the Forest Service, then the California Park Service and finally as grounds superintendent at Yosemite National Park. After the war Bill studied English at university, but chose not to be an academic. He entered the US Army in 1943 and served with the Allied Army troops that crossed France and northern Germany ending World War II in 1945.
Bill was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin, on February 28, 1925. Bill’s wife, Adele predeceased him in 1967.
He is survived by one brother, Jim Laux, in Florida, USA as well as three nephews. William Arlington Laux, age 79, resident of Fauquier for 42 years died of cancer in the Arrow Lakes Hospital on October 7, 2004. The Arrow Lakes lost another of its World War II veterans. Bill Laux: Writer, Artist and Castle Builder From the Obituary Column of the Arrow Lakes News
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