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Show Film follows explorer trail by RICHARD BARNUM-REECE Chronicle Staff Utah travel clubbers trekked the woods and cities of northeastern Canada following the route of French explorer Samuel de Champlain, founder of Quebec and Montreal, October 17. Head guide for the adventurers who filed into Kingsbury Hall was Dennis Cooper, erstwhile logger and humorist. Mr. Cooper introduced the travel clubbers to the verdant scenery and spectacular seascapes of the Gaspe Peninsula, the St. Lawrence River, the Thousand Isles, as well as the major cities of the Canadian northeast and the Eskimo settlements set-tlements of northern Canada. Deft narrative characterized Mr. Coopers presentation. He indicated he and his brother, Ron, got "to the travelogue business because "Our logging outfit was in TO woods-that's because that's where the trees grow-and we raveled back and forth to town a 9reat deal with our logs; it finally Decame obvious that we were in me travel-loggin business." In consideration of the mini-skirts ne saw in the metropolitan cities of u"ebec and Montreal Mr. Cooper said, "When I was a young feller t chasin' women before I got "ned 8nd warted to know if a 9lrl had knock-knees or not-b0Y-l had to listen." filmir.-rC00per's two-hour color , Canadian Holiday," offered a u-m,nute intermission after the "rst hour of humor. |