America’s 41st President, George H.W. Bush, was at his summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine on this date in 1997 where he had Arctic Canada on his mind. He was busy typing at his home computer because he was on deadline for submitting a fishing column for a tiny NWT weekly – the mighty Deh Cho Drum, circulation 700 or so and based in Fort Simpson -- after a trip he had taken earlier in the month to Canada’s Far North.  I was the editor who invited Bush to write his Canadian column and his doing so remains one of the memories I cherish most from my work as a journalist.  A few years after that, President Bush had my wife and I, then visiting Houston, over to his office for a coffee and the rarest of opportunities for us to hear his fishing stories up close and personal. Here is the story of the late President’s fishing column that I wrote when the 41st President of the United States passed into history in 2018: https://www.thewhig.com/opinion/columnists/tribute-george-h-w-bush-a-friendship-born-of-fishing