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-Editorial Comments-
This Year Book is the result of a compromise. Jim (James Patrick to you) our devoted Secretary, now promoted to the rank of Associate Editor as well, wanted it all pictures. "Look at the magazines" Jim kept saying. "The best sellers are all pictures. That is what the people want." We (this includes the Editor) wanted it mostly reading matter, good, sound, instructive, enlight ening reading matter, with a reasonable number of illustrations thrown in, of course. Text is cheap, pictures are expensive. So why make it expensive since most of these copies are given free to our members. It was finally decided to make it half pictures and half text. Frankly we think it is not a bad Annual and we hope you will like it. And the funny part of it is that Jim, while clamouring for pictures only contributed a little one-the one where he is shown slapping on paint at Pink Lake, to let you know probably that he can use a paint brush as well as a pen,-but a flood of bright articles, one about Pink Lake where he spent a couple of weeks gathering information on the spot, and· one about a horse which he never saw, but a horse that is doing a lot for skiing. Jim also managed to get very interesting contributions from the Rt. Hon. Malcolm MacDonald and the Private Secretary to the Chilean Am bassador. Most of the pictures were supplied by Fred Dixon, who is an artist as well as a digger and builder. By the way did you notice 'that we are on advanced time? This Year Book is dated 1944-45, whereas it should be dated 1943-44, since it is supposed to record last season's achievements. The trouble is that some one blundered last year and·we now have to keep the advanced date. The only way to fix it would be to drop one Year Book, and start with the right date the following year. This we may h'ave to do. · A splendid article on the Laurentians, from the pen of H. P. Douglas, will be found in this issue. "Why", some one may ask, waste good printer's ink on the Montreal back yard when there is so much still unwritten about our own back yard-the Gatineau hills? Simply because many of our members keep writing and 'phoning to the Editor, in season and out of season, wanting to know where is the best place to go to, North of Montreal. How should I know, I never go there. So I wrote our old friend Percy Douglas who knows every square inch of that 600 square mile patch, who has grown up with it, has spent practicaUy every week-end on blades there for the last fifty years, and who, as President of the 2 Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45
A view of Camp Fortune
The Plaunt Lodge with new fallen snow Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 3
Montreal Ski Club, President of the Canadian Ski Association and Editor of the Canadian Ski Year Book, has done more to promote skiing in Canada and particularly in the Laurentians, than any one else. If you are planning to go to the Laurentians this winter, read Percy's article, you will find all the information you want. Note also that Percy says that "A five spot will no longer see you through a week-end in the Laurentians" whereas a five spot will see you through at Camp Fortune for a whole season-with a bit to spare if you pay early. And if you want to know about accommodation in the Gati neau Valley, here is the information in a nut shell :-We are told that there is a first class hotel at Gracefield. and very good open hills ·there. Wakefield is also a good ski centre with a number of good hotels in the village (Manor House, Hotel Diotte, Mrs. Austin, Ken Young (at the old Mill). Accommodation can also be found at a few good farm houses, at some little distance from Wakefield: -Orner Gauvreau, on the main road to Masham, Mr. Kingsbury at Philip's Lake, 5 miles from Wakefield.-At Pink Lake, our friend Major Hancock can accommodate a small number of guests in two cottages, 50 cents a bed, $2.25 a day. Clothed in its new garb and provided with modern cafeteria facilities, the Pink Lake Lodge is very much to the fore in this issue. The main reason for this renovation of a building that had been demoted to the rank of a shack through twenty years of abuse and neglect, is that very good skiing possibilities have beeri found close to it. The hills could not be seen for the trees; now that a little thinning has been done, they stand revealed, and they are good. In fact it is hoped that as a ski centre, Pink Lake will prove to be a close rival to Camp Fortune, certainly much better than Fairy Lake, and that ski riders will make it their headquarters for the day, instead of using it only for a few minutes as a rest station on the way to Wrightville. Pink Lake is only three quarters of an hour from Kingsmere, a little over an hour from Wrightville, and only twenty minutes from the junction of the Hermit and Mountain Road. Give it a trial! Splendid service has again been rendered by that elite corps, the Night Riders, under the leadership of their energetic and resourceful Captain, Bill Irving, and his lieutenants, Elmer Cassel and Fred Dixon. Originally bushwhackers, the Night Riders have developed into trail finders, first aid men, builders and engineers. They have saved the Club hundreds of dollars by rebuilding the Pink Lake Lodge, and their own bunk-houses, the Southam and Plaunt lodges; by intelligent grading and clearing work they have doubled the capacity of some of the best hills around Camp Fortune and greatly decreased the risk of accidents. They have also great ly improved the ski tow on the slalom hill. The Night Ride_rs may be justly proud of their work. More power to their elbows! 4 Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 Some one made the suggestion that a map of our trail be en closed in this issue. This will be done some time in a separate Guide book, including a map for each trail. In the meantime, our members may get the very good Federal District Commission map at McGiffin's, 80 Sparks------St. The Camp Fortune Lodge is being improved by the addition of a large waxing room- which by the way looks good enough to be used as a lounge room-a new cafeteria which will permit of much quicker service, two fireplaces, one at each end of the Tweeds muir hall, a wood-shed where hardy ones could spend the night in a sleeping bag, a first-aid room and new caretaker's quarters. You won't know the place when you see it. It is simply amazing the things that can be found around Camp Fortune if one but takes the trouble to look around. Joe Morin happened to look up one day as he was passing along, and he found the Slalom Hill, 1200 feet high. In the same way the other day, John Clifford found a splendid jumping hill, good for a hundred feet or more, in the nursery slopes. Sigurd's hill will have to do some stretching to stay in the run. And now for our annual tilt with the Federal District Com mission! Last year, our grudge was the beavers. This year it is that sign the Commission put over the entrance to the Canyon trail, on the Meach Lake Road. The sign reads: "Ridge Road." Ye Gods! Did the Commission get its signs mixed or did it im agine that a "Road" would attract skiers or hikers more than a "Trail"? "Trail" brings to mind the wild denizens of the forest, ~ babbling brooks, dark recesses of the bush, sunny clearings; "Road" conjures up the sinister vision of motor cars and the vile stench of fuel and oil. Better change that name to the one by which it has been known for over twenty years and will always be known by the members of the Ottawa Ski Club, who made this oath-The Canyon trail. And get rid of the nefarious beavers too, before they turn the country into a morass. To HARVEY CLIFFORD, who was the first m an to car ry the colours of the Ottawa Ski Club to victory at Lake P lacid, winning the Slalom on February 20, and at Mont Tremblant, winning the Taschereau race Class A on February 13 and the Laurentian Zone Championships on March 13, our heartiest congratulations! To all our contributors, our advertisers, and particularly our advertising manager, M. J. Londeau, who is responsible for the artistic lay out of this Year Book, I desire to express my sincere thanks and appreciation. ------To our members overseas-Greetings ! May God speed your return to the Gatineau hills ! Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 5 6 Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 The Ottawa Ski Club
HONORARY OFFICERS H onorwry President: H. S. Southam
Honorary Vice-Presidents: J. A. Wilson J. A. O'Brien Norman Smith Graham Towers
EXECUTIVE President and Editor: C. E. Mortureux First Vice-President: Second Vice-President: Herbert Marshall SigurdLockeberg
Chairman, Ladies' Committee: Mrs. Sylvain Bernier H on. Secretary: Directors: Jas. S. Patrick, 76 Renfrew Ave. Hubert Douglas J.P. Taylor Legal Adviser: A George McHugh; K.C. .Fred Dixon Treasurer: Wm. Irving Sylvain Bernier F. Richardson Auditors: Elmer Cassel A. D. Watson John Clifford F. L. Price Geo. Brittain
-LODGES- Camp Fortune--May ·be reached by Western Lodge-By ski from Camp ski f·rom Tenaga (C.P.R.) over Tena Fortune. About 3 miles. The West ga trail ( 4 miles), or ·by ski from Old ern Look-0'\llt is one of the best in Chelsea (Canyon trail, 3 miles) or the Gatineau Country. from Kingsmere (2 miles), or Pink Lake Lodge--By ski from from Dunlop's (11,4, miles.) There is Kingsmere, 4 miles, all downhill, or a bus service from the City (Corner from Wrightville (3 miles) or by car George and Dalhousie, first bus 8.30 from City along Mountain road to Sunday morning) to Old Chelsea and Hermit's road. (Turn up at Hill Top Kingsmere. Truck or sleigh service Tea House sign.) from Chelsea station (C.P.R.) to Dome Hill Lodge--By bus or car to Dunlop's.--'Good motor roads to Ironside, or by ski from Wri.ghtville Kingsmere or Dunlop's with parking car terminus (2¥.! miles.) Pine hill accommodation at Old Chelsea, and Midway hill are on this trail to Young's, Kingsmere or Dunlop. Dome hill. Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 7
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DEVLIN FURS STAND THE TEST OF TIME Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 11 (5° below) Fre·s·h snow, blue· - Tuesday March 28. Fresh sky, bright sunshine. A perfect snow (8 inches) CanY'on fair day. Took the new Great Div but a bit tricky. Very good out ide Hill. Marvelous slide. - ing. - Sunday April 2nd (32° Sunday Jan. 16 (0°') Canyon above) More fresh snow, beau hard packed and extremely fast. tiful day, blue sky, Canyon A nice bright day. - Sunday splendid. A wonderful time. - Jan. 23 (30° above) Fresh snow, Good Friday, April 9 (20c a bit sticky at first but very above) Clear blue sky, brilliant fast in afternoon, as · wind sunshine, marvelous spring con sprang up. A splendid time. - ditions. Hardy ones stripped to Sunday Jan. 30 (10° above). A the waist. A glorious day. - beautiful day, blue sky and sun Sunday April 10 (32° above). shine. Hills hard but trails soft Hazy, warm wind, rising tem and perfect. - Sunday Feb. 6 perature, sun peeping through (3° above). Did not go out be clouds. A very good time. - cause it had been raining on Sunday April 17 (30° above). Saturday, but was told that con Dull, overcast. 7 inches of snow ditions· were fair. - Sunday during week, but a bit crusty. ·Feb. 13 (10° above) Best snow Signs of season's end. Cafeteria conditions yet and best crowd of moving out. Highland Fling, years. Beautiful day. - Sun one bare spot. Quiet but en day F~b. 20 (14° above) Grand joyable· time. Missed April 24 day, tremendous crowd, hard to which I am told was a glorious get a seat at Camp Fortune. - ending to the season. Sunday Feb. 27 (28° above) A misty morning, rain and sleet in The season was marked by a the air. Hard and crusty, fast huge attendance at all the lodge~ on trails. Terrifi'c iSpeed on of the Ottawa Ski Club. On hills. Many people cut up. - sPveral occasions, the number Sunday March 5 (5° beiow). of visitors at Camp Fortune Terrific wind. Fresh snow on broke all records, even those of the crust. Much better than last the Dominion Championship Sunday. Bright sunshine. No five y€ars ago. Arrangements cas ualties. - Sunday March 12 are being made this year to en (17° above). Fresh snow, bright larg.e the club hous·e. They are sunshine, rising temperature. given in the rEdito.rial 'Com All right with wax. First sun ments. bathing crowd. Sunday The following competitions March 19 (0°) Bright sunshine were held during the season: 3 inches powdery snow. Nicest day and best conditions of the January 9 Preliminary year but small crowd because Giant Slalom on Mort's Hill. snowfall was unknown in town. Men-1. Harvey Clifford; 2. Ron A glorious time! - ~Sunday Baillie; 3 John Buck. Women March 26 (28° a.bove). Corn -1, Jeannette Drouin; 2. Nao snow, which improved all day mi Wilson; 3. Mary Maclennan. long. Perfect slid:ing on Travel January 16-Downhill and er's. Blue sky, perfect spring Slalom on M,ort's Hill. Junior skiing. Hundreds sun bathing. Boys-1. Ian Rogers; 2. L. 12 Ottawa Ski Club Yeru Book 1944-45 Smith; 3. H. Godding. Interme Collegiate (Ailsa Croil, Eliza diate Girls-1. Audrey Dunne; beth and Margaret Duguid and 2; Janeth Rutherford; 3. Barba Betty Thompson). In dividual· ra Benoit. Senior-Downhill -Downhill-1. Margaret Du Mary Maclennan; Slalom guid; 2. Betty Thompson; 3. Margaret Dugufd. Anne Kelly. Slalom- 1. Audrey Dunne; 2. Elizabeth Duguid; 3. January 23-Southam Trophy Margaret Duguid. Cross-Country Race at Camp Fortune. Winning Team-Glebe February 13 - Taschereau Collegiate (Harvey Clifford, Ted Race at Mont T remblant . Har Gordon, Frank Macintyre and vey Clifford captured Class A. Don Kihl). Individual-!. Har Alex McDougall and John Clif vey Clifford; 2. Ted Gordon; 3. ford finished 1st and 2nd in Ken Thomas. Women's Invfta Class B. tion Downhill and Slalom at Col lingwood. February 20...--JLake Placid. Margaret Duguid S finished fourth lalom won by Harvey Clifford. in Class A and John Clifford Jeanette Drouin captured Class was 7th.- Cross B. Country, Ken Thomas 3 rd, Ted Gordon 4th. - D ownhill, Ken January 30 - Arthur Ault Thomas 6th; Harvey Clifford Memorial Trophy at Camp For 6th; John Clifford 8th. tune. Winning Team---'Glebe Col legiate (Harvey Clifford, Frank March 5 - Journal Trophy Macintyre, Ken Meikle, Ted at Camp Fortune. Senior-1. Gordon and Ron Baillie). In Bruce Heggtvei:t; 2. Harvey Clif dividual-Downhill-1. Harvey ford; 3. Alex McDougall. Jun Clifford; 2. Alex McDougall; 3. ior-1. Don Kihl; 2. Paul Oli Ken Meikle. Slalom- 1. Harvey vier; 3. Ken Thomas. Clifford; 2. Ken Meikle; 3. Jean Bisson. March 12-Laurentian Zone Championships at Mont Trem-. February 6-Dunning Trophy blant. 1. Harvey Clifford; 3. at Seignory Club. Winning Team Alex McDougall ; 4. 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So maruy people make in chanting "Alouette", or any the pilgrimage to Ste Agathe; of the half-dozen other songs Ste. Adele, Ste. Marguerite and being sung, from trying to other 16 Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 In Camp Fortune Lodge Sun bathing at Camp Fortune Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 17 bear-skin robe is tucked around jump out, fit on your skis, slip a you. The driver stands up in haversack with your lunch on to his seat and calls a command to your back and start to glide for the horse, addressing it affec wards. tionately by its Christian name. The little beast puts its strength You can enter the precincts against the traces. With a few gently by Dunlop's, or more creaks the sleigh starts to move., energetically from Kingsmere As it glides smoothly over the o £ ,rf<. Uo/daway CHIROPRACTOR :.>IAL 2-7975 165 Sparks Street Ottawa DRESSES FOR EVERY OCCASION BLOUSES THAT ARE DIFFERENT HAND-MADE LINGERIE JEWELRY & ACCESSORIES · SUITE 101-102 BOOTH BLDG. DIAL 2-0760 Ottawa. Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 19 ing ceases to be a game of skill at the beginning of last season, and becomes a game of luck, I was troubled only by its ghost. when a horrible hump appear suggest that I shout- · I should like to ed immediately ahead. the Night Riders now pay at ed "Track!" at it. But it refused Lodge I forward to tention to the Western to budge. bent I have kept take it in the approved manner Trail. For there too into the air. Swish! a rendez-vous· with grief. I had and soared been to the Lodge and gazed Crash!!* Bump!!!! .... !!!! its magnificent For some reason entranced upon 0-ouch! ! ! view of the wintry Ottawa Val which I am at a loss to explain, its buried in ley. The trail is narrow, and I landed with my face surface that day was crusty and the snow. icy. But somehow I had sur When I sat up I was distinctly vived not only the journey out under the impression that all my wards but also most of the re teeth were knocked out. Nor turn course back to Camp For was that the worst. I had a tune. At the top of the long, sickening suspicion that my last run between trees, out on mouth and chin had also been to the lower half of Travelers' scraped off by that sudden im Hill and down to the Camp, I pact with the ground. It seem pulled myself together for a ed that the snow had deeply re final, triumphant effort. I stuck sented my too passionata kiss my ski-poles into the ground upon its cold, cold cheek, and whilst carefully manoeuvring had exacted suitable punish my skis into a position parallel ment. I could feel nothing what with each other and consistent ever on my face lower than my with the track. Then I pulled nose. I hardly dared to• explore up my poles, like a ship raising with my fingers for my jaw. anchor, and started. I had not When I plucked up courage noticed a tree standing rather to do so, I received one of the closer to the track than any fair happiest surprises of my life. minded tree should, lower down. My chin was intact. My mouth When I did observe it, I felt · was in its usual place. Even my greatly drawn to it. I steered teeth had all maintained their an unswerving course straight proper stations. They had mere at it. ly snapped viciously at my lips, During considerable travels which were cut and swoilen. I have seen some of the When I looked down I saw ~rim most famous trees in the world: son splashes of blood spotting the Cedars of Lebanon, the giant the pure white snow. I consoled Redwoods of California, th,e myself with the thought that if Blue Gum trees of Australia, you must insist on falling when the King Palms of Honolulu, the skiing, it is only honourable to stunted pines on the edge of the fall forwards. Barren Lands, and many others. But now the Night Riders But no tree ever made such an have taken my revenge on that impression on me as did that lit little hump on the Canyon Trail. tle fir tree beside the Western When I skimmed down the track Lodge Trail. It bruised one of 20 Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 QOIIl/TY Is wll11t counts In Furs! Every Coat now offered by SIMON-FURS is a HOLT RENFREW Fur Coat which means the best in guaranteed quality and value SIMON-FURS~ 182 Queen street Now owned by HOLT RENFREW & CO., LIMITED Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 21 my thumbs, sprained both my screened by Christmas trees. On wrists, twisted one knee so that it you can pretend to be enjoy it was afflicted with water for ing a beautiful, distant view several days afterwards, and whilst you summon up courage smacked all the wind out of my to make the descent. Your re lungs with such gusto that I solve made, you take either of struggled painfully to breathe two routes down. You can as I lay half-stunned on the slip from your mooring with an ground. However, when I sat inclination to port ... gather up and studied the situation, and speed gradually over gentle found that I had collapsed with ground ... do a mild Christie to one leg on either side of the tree, the right just before you run I realised that it had really be slap into the trees growing be haved with considerable self yond the hill's left shoulder ... restraint. plunge at a quickening speed In addition to two respectable down a steeper slope, curve race courses, with which I am again to the right just above a not as familiar as I should like ridge stretching across the mid to be, fouT good open slopes are dle of the hill, and swoop assembled round Camp Fortune. smoothly down the final, steepest They are Mort's Hill, the Divide, incline to the bottom. Or else Travelers' Hill and the Slalom you can start from the top with Hill. Each has its own parti a slight bias to starboard. By cular attraction. The Divide is that route you run more im a short but sweet plunge for mediately and quickly over the straight down-hill runners. hill's shoulder ... steer a course Mort's is a good, moderate slope amongst a few aggressive on which to practise your turns. bumps, descend at a spanking The Slalom Hill is a higher and pace a sharp angle of the hill, more precipitous drop on which and plunge left, right or centre to perfe·ct them, or bust. Travel (whichever you choose or can't ers' is a mixture of various help) over the ridge and on to things. I know that "compar the last steep drop. By devious isons are odious". But if I were little adjustments of direction to express a preference between you can add variety to your de the four hiHsides, I would choose scent. Thus, if you direct your Travelers'. skis sufficiently boldly towards one point on the top shoulder, When God made Travelers' you can jump into the air on Hill He did a lovely little job. It your way down. Or with a sharp is a horiey. Clad in its white twist here and there you can mantle, it has a judicious mix leave the open hill-side and con ture· of restraint and excitement, tinue with wild war-whoops and of straight running and twists, professional writhings through of the rough and the smooth. a cluster of trees. But be care Surveyed from the bottom it has ful ! Whatever course you take, the right air of innocence, and the bottom of the hill may give from the top the right air of you an unpleasant surprise. wickedness. When you have accomplished Its summit is a platform the descent successfully and are 22 Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 running swiftly, faultlessly (of must be a white-walled, red course) and (I'll wager) con roofed timber shack, like the ceitedly on to the apparently club-house at Camp Fortune, flat ground there, you are sud surrounded by glistening white denly rudely shaken. The earth slopes fashioned in the images is rippled into a succession of of Mort's Hill, the Divide, the waves, and unless your knees Slalom Hill and Travelers'. The and ankles act efficiently as · snow on them is always spring springs, you bite the snow. snow--crisp and fast like crys tallized sugar. There the Elect It will be apparent to the read ski all day long. It is a matter er from what I have written of deep regret to me that my that I am not a wildly enthus life on this Earth has been so iastic trail skier. Give me the sinful that I am never likely to open slopes! There Freedom and 1 arrive at that Camp Paradise. Speed wait to attend . your ef I would love to disport myself forts. It is good to stand one through all Eternity on the ce moment on a high hil1top, lestial Travelers' Hill, in the breathing the fresh air of the company of the saints. The ec summit, and then to abandon stasy of it would be all the great yourself to your skis, swoop er, because one would not neces down and arrive a few minutes sarily have to herring-bone up later at the bottom. The thrill the hill after each descent. When of that smooth, swift, silent glide your legs grew a trifle weary, downhill cannot be surpassed in you could S'p,read your wings any · of Man's sporting exper and fly back to the summit. iences. It has a rare, a sublime quality. It compares with the It would be pleasant, too, to scoop of a falcon or the flight rest at noon and eat your lunch of an angel. And if the height is out of doors, as one does in so great, or the going so tricky, March and April at Camp For that on arrival at the bottom tune. Sprawled on a bench out your knees are quivering a lit side the club-house of Camp tle with the strain, that makes Paradise, with a bottle of coca it all the grander. To watch a cola stuck coolly in the snow be good skier is to see grace of side me and a hot-dog clutched human movement at its best. It in my hand, I would acquire a is a beautiful verse from the nice tan in the heavenly sun poetry of motion. And to try shine. And around me I would to emulate a good skier is the recognize the faces of my fellow most glo,rious exercise in the members of the Ottawa Ski world. Club. For, of course, they will all be there. I sometimes used to wonder, when I was a child, what Heaven Oh Lord, I wish I had lived a looked like. Now I know. One virtuou·s life, and could claim at least of its many mansions that perfect reward! Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 23 There/ s Snow in them thar/ Hills and Ski Togs to Enjoy It at the C.D.S. Whether you are venturing the nurs~ry slopes for the first time or are a veteran of Slalom Hill... you'll be ski wise if you let the C.D.S. outfit you smartly-colourfully - comfortably. - C.D.S. SKI SHOP - Second Floor ~~.,CANADIAN DEPARTMENT STORES LIMITED OTTAWA, ONT. 24 Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 The Standard Drug Store PHRRmHCIE CRRDEHU 3-5603 138 RIDEAU ST. DIAL { 3-5604 WE FEATURE FAIRWAY and GRENFELL Ski Clothing Parkas Windbreakers Ski-Pants Ski-Socks Chamois Vests Lined Jerkins Suede and Horsehide Windbreakers Ski-Mitts TR!l.DE MARK REGISTERED DELICIOUS and REFRESHING MEN'S WEAR CORNER BANK AND t;IUEEN Compliments of PROOUtlRS OHIRY LTD. 275 KENT STREET OTTAWA Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 25 -The Ski Patrol- One day at Dome Hill, a young happen to be alone, keep to well man tarried until everybody had travelled pa.ths, and give your gone home; he climbed up the self plenty of time to complete hill once more, for one more your journey before the flow of slide, fell at the bottom and skiers ceases. In other words, broke a leg. No one heard his avoid if you can being the last cries of distress and he spent straggler on the trail. all night out. He survived owing to his robust constitution, but it It may .be argued that lone was an ordeal that few could skiers seldom or never take have stood and lived. The SKI chances, and that one "shows PATROL was born out of this off" only when there is company. incident. That may be, but accidents are not always the result of daring. Ski€rs in distress who, at some Good skiers have been known to time or other. have been rescued break a leg or snap an ankle on by the Ski Patrol need not be a flat course.. Slippery stuff is reminded of the usefulness of always treacherous, and snow is that organization. They know. almost as bad in this respect as Others might go on to the end of a waxed floor. their ski care€r quite unaware -If accidents may happen to of its existence, just as a reason the best of us, anywhere, a dis ably careful, lucky and peaceful ability that would lbe almost citizen, avoiding intoxicants and insignificant on a travelled high banana peels, might, to the end way might prove quite serious of · his days, remain in blissful on an out of the way path. A ignorance of the Black Maria or trail teeming with life at high the Ambulance Squad. For the noon might be just as desolate sake of the latter, it is well per at sundown as the most lonely haps that this story should be part of the North Pole or the told. Sahara desert. Unless one had However, while skiers shoul9 a book or a radio-let alone food know of the institutions that or blankets-to improve the watch over th€ir welfare, it is passing time, it would be a bit just as well perhaps that they tedious, if one was disabled, to do not put too much reliance wait a whole week for the re on them. The knowledge that turn of the throng. help may be coming should not prevent them from observing No one fortunately has ever the rules of the trail. been known to spend the night out in any of the many trails On€ of these rules, and a criss-crossing the Kingsmere fundamental one, is that no ski range of hills but it might hap er should ever venture alone on pen-one never knows with a remote trail, and particularly these fool skiers-and it is just towards the close of the day. to prevent such happenings that Always travel in groups, wait the Ski Patrol, a branch of the ing for one another. If you Night Riders, was organized. 26 Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 Ski Patrol in action Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 27 The Ski Patrol always stands as it were when the day's fun is in readiness to answer a call for over, to make sure that every help from any quarter, but its one goes home safely. duty does not end there. Every member of the patrol is in And so every Sunday -::hat charge of a trail, and his duty comes around and in any wea is to see that it is covered be ther or any snow conditions. fore nightfall. fair or foul, soft or icy, thirty above or thirty below, just as "Speed the parting guest" is the sun touches the crest of the motto of the patrol. If the · Traveler's hill and the shadows day is cold or blizzardly, the of the pines around Camp For guest a bit slow or clumsy and .tune begin to lengthen, the men the shades of night fast falling of the Patrol squad strike out to about him, the patrol man stays cover the various trails assign with him until he is out of ed to them. They time their harm's way. Or if the guest is departure about an hour after handicapped by some breakage the last skier is known to have in his equipment, skis and poles, gone home, and they generally tape or wire are produced from catch up with him before the the pack of ,the patrol man and end. temporary repairs made, suffi Not many casualties have cient to enable the guest to "get been found but many weary on" with reasonable speed. travellers have been helped and If the break cannot be repair comforted, and the services ed, the guest is led to the nearest rendered in this respect by the highway, where he can foot it Ski Patrol have been sufficient home, his skis on his shoulders. to justify its existence. Most He might be only a few hundred casualties occur in the im yards from such highway and mediate vicinity of Camp For not know it--keeping going on tune, on the Slalom hill, at the sinking and floundering in the foot of the Canyon, on the Dip snow until he is too tired to pers, and yet last year Elmer move. If the guest has injured Cassel· picked up a man with a a part of his anatomy, either a broken leg half way down on break or a sprain, splints, tape the Wrightville Trail, just about or bandages are soon found, at night fall, and it is doubtful and, if necessary a call for help that this man could have made sent to the nearest ambulance the first farm house.-As we squad or farm house. Such is in said before one never knows Rhort the main duty of the Ski with the fool skiers.--JC.E.M. Patrol, a mopping up of the trail ---V--- 28 Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 FOR YOUR NEXT APPOINTMENT TRY UELDR BRILEY Beauty Salon 546 Bank Street Dial 3-5974 mORRISOU-LRffiOTHE BRKERY LTD. BAKERS AND CATERERS 95 ECHO DRIVE DIAl 5-1401 Telephone 3-3327 tommuniTY IOSURHOCE H&EOCY umnEo Automobile, Fire, Accident and Sickness WM. T. TROY Roorr 51. 75 Sparks St. OTTAWA. Ont. Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 . 29 -The Laurentians by H. P. Douglas Your President and my old total area of 600 square miles. ski friend "Mort", invites me to And when you look at it on the write something about our Lau map, you are struck by the rel).tians that might be useful or smallness of the terrain, in fact instructive to those of you visit it is now becoming so crowded ing our lovely ski country. It in the skiing season that our starts at the little town of Shaw principal concern is how, after bridge, the foothills of the the war, we are going to take mountains, 42 miles north of care of the increasing throngs Montreal on the C.P.R. and of enthusiasts. The Laurentian C.N.R. and extends some 40 Division of the C.P.R. is a single miles no'rth-west to Mont Trem track line, sharply twisting blant. Its eastern boundary is a through the valleys, with line bisecting Lac Masson and grades so stiff that only light its western boundary a line equipment can be used, and the through Morin Heights to Lac year before the war it had just Tremblant, and its approximate about reached its capacity. We are hoping that the line will be double tracked, regraded and straightened out and if this is done the service will be much improved. The North Road ha:; been rebuilt, and we will have by next winter a modern high way from the city right through to· Tremblant; with normal mo tor and bus service in operation, this will be a popular travel route to the ski country. I used to ·pride myself that I knew every resort in the Lau rentians, but even with a war . on, new places are opening up so fast it is quite impossible to keep track of them, and you now find ski tows everywhere, . and countless little inns giving excellent accommodation. Prices have gone up sharply, and it is no longer possible to expect a 'five spot' will see you tlirough over the week-end as it did in the good old days. However, we might look over some of our best known resorts, starting at Trem blant which has become the lead- 30 Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 A. L. & W. SKI RITE STEEL SKI CLAMPS A very practical device for carrying or storing skis. Consists of two steel clamps with spring lever- baked enamel finish. A wooden block is supplied of the proper thickness to control the arch of skis. Packed in individual display boxes. Price .50 Set Order from your dealer or direct RLLCOCK, LRICHT & IUESTIUOOO CO., LIMITED 230 BAY STREET TORONTO Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 31 ing ski resort in the East. The s'ee some wonderful skiing. The morning C.P.R. train from feature of Tremblant is the trail Windsor Station, arrives at running and racing, and two Tremblant, 96 long slow miles, modern ski lifts take you· up to at one o'clock, sometimes, and the tip of the mountain, 2200 a smart bus runs us over to the feet, where the famous Kanda lodge, three miles away, in a har racing trail starts, and no few minutes. Mr. Joseph Ryan matter what the conditions may has built in the forest, at the be down in the valley, there is base of rugged old Mont Trem usually fine running on the up blant, a charming little French per mountain. The Tremblan~ Canadian village; church, hotels, trail system provides for every shops, 40 odd picturesque cab grade of skill, and even the no ins of all combinations, cafe vice will find great wide trails teria, restaurants, bars-every that can be taken safely. A thing has been provided for your modern ski school, with many comfort, and over three hundred instructors and guides, and a guests can be accommodated. well-appointed ski shop, nothing The young people have their being overlooked, it is a wonder own quarters, at a lower price, ful place today, and will be and in the season it is a fascin further developed in the future. ating place to visit, for you meet In the summer season there is ski enthusiasts· from all over, a riding, tennis, golf, a splendid most interesting lot of people, pool, sailing on the lovely lake, old as well as young, and you and some of the best trout fish- 32 Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944...:....45 ing in the province--what more could you ask for? Just a short distance from Tremblant is Manoir Pineteau, Wan_et.ng one of the oldest hotels in the mountains, modern in every -- respect, prices most reasonable, and in the village are many small Vaudevt·ffe boarding houses. It is interest ing to see the habitant children in these little villages, all on skis, barrel staves tied on with string, anything at all, but all !Refreshments doing perfect turns and stops quite unconsciously, and as you pass the school house you see a Courteous Service forest of skis sticking up out of the snow. These are champions of tomorrow. Gray . Rocks Inn on Lac Ouimet is a short four miles by the Maple Leaf Trail, and here for forty years the Wheeler family have conducted the Inn, and today the genial Tom Wheeler and his capable wife are the best of hosts. Their comfortable hostelry, with its adjoining cabins, is filled all winter, miles of trails radiate J(fways from the Inn in all directions; at the back door is a 35 meter· jumping hill. Hermann Gedner 6/he Best from Hans Schneider's former ski school in Austria, with a for Less staff of capable assistants, con ducts the ski school. Fine open country extends all about, ideal for cross country and touring. Jhe;} /} A great attraction especially to the children are the Seppla Ken _/Vualon nels, with their champion Siber ian Huskies that Harry Wheeler _jjote/ cftJ. has raced successfully ~u over Chelsea Highway North America. I might also mention that in the summer Phone 4-3206 Gray Rocks is famous for its fishing and hunting, the most distant lakes are quickly reach- Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 33 ed by its own plane _c;ervice, canoe lashed to the top of the plane, all a most modern und convenient saving of time and distance. Twenty miles south on the · Maple Leaf Trail, a steady up hill pull to 1200 feet, is Ste. Agathe, the highest point in the mountains this side of Mont Trem!blant. This has alway:3 been an important recreation centre and many well-known Montreal families have their winter and summer homes on Lac des Sables, Lac Manitou, or SKI TOGS Lac Brule, but a few miles away. The Harrisons have made a great success of the Laurentide arid Inn, completely rebuilt, with many separate cabins, it is in SMART SPORTSWEAR winter and summer a comfort able place to visit. The elevation for of Ste. Agathe guarantees our most dependable snow condi tions, and the surounding coun all sports try lends itself to every variety of skiing : perfect cross country trips, miles of trails, downhill and slalom hills with ski tows, DRESSES jumping hill, and a well con ducted ski school. In the village SUITS are many smaller hotels and boarding houses catering to the COATS Ski trade. & F'INE SPORTSWEAR Five miles south is Val Morin, and to the west lies our best ski country, miles of great hills and valley, lakes and streams; Mont Fitzgerald, J.C., Locas, and many other popular ski runs down great cleared slopes. In the middle of this skiing para dise is Sun Valley Farm, on the fifth Range road, four miles in from the C.P.R. just off the new 281 BANK 3-1050 highway, comfortable and mod ern, small and friendly, but all too small for the crowds flocking 34 Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 SKI APPAREL - SPORTSWEAR HOUSECOATS SMART ENSEMBLES-MODERATELY PRICED goan 0ever/ey 8hoppe DIAL 5-4000 127 BANK STREET ALL TRAILS LEAD TO FOR EXPERT DEVELOPING AND PRINTING 131 SPARKS ST. 3-6244 DIAL 2 - 0724 lo~:~{f P,Mion CUSTOM TAILORING - ENGLISH HABERDASHERY Agents for Tyrol famous Ski Boots Dack' s Shoes Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 35 there, so book your space early. At Val Morin there are many places to stay, also at Val David and Mont Roll'and, all on the C.P.R. A few miles south over plain ly marked well-conditioned trails is Ste. Marguerite, 900 feet elevation, a busy centre in all seasons, many private ski cab ins, and one of our best inns, The Alpine, rebuilt, and crowd ed to the doors. A standard jumping hill is just down the river and Hill 60 with its over worked ski tows. Three miles east. is Chalet Cochand, presided over by Emile and his busy wife, they started the Chalet in 1914, and have built up a re markable all-year clientele that On the Maple Leaf Trail comes back to them season after "Where do we go from here?" season. Emile, an old friend of Fred Dixon and John Clifford mine, is one of the finest all A short run south and west, round ski men I have ever met, cross country over open hills and and his sons headed by the fam bush trails is the Ste. Sauveur ous Louis now in the R.C.A.F. valley, 600 feet elevation, and are 'chips off the the block.' The to me the most picturesque com skiing is interesting, trail most munity of all, though of late ter ly with some open country, ribly overcrowded. The little slalom and downhill with ski village lies in a ·natural valley lifts, a good standard jumping with cleared hills on all sides hill. We are all proud ,)f the rising to 700 feet, the main Cochands and what they mean street bordered with one ski to our skiing. Tom Potter a cabin after the other, an old former Montreal broker, · has gray stone church on the corner, spent a fortune in his Ste.. A dele it might be a bit of Switzerland. Lodge development; lovely hotel, Many boarding houses and eat many cottages, the biggest din ing places available, the Sunday ing and drinking room in the morning crowds arriving on ~he mountains; enormous crowds C.N.R. enormous, every hill and flock there in the winter, and tow jammed, it is difficult to get summer as well. The Chantecler anything to eat or drink. Just is close by, surrounded by ski outside the village is the Pen tows, and all around, hills with guin clubhouse where forty out number, Mont Rolland is the smart and pretty girls live in nearest station on the C.P.R. every comfort. This is our only many places to stay, lunch and all women's ski club, and it is drink in the vicinity, quite our doing a grand job in advancing busiest centre. modern ski technique among the 36 Ottawa Ski Club Yeaz Book 1944-45 Tl)e Absolute PEAK of PERFECTION FOR BETTER SKI CONTROL This model is out for the Duration. But we are hoping that it will not be lc;>ng when we may again offer it. Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 37 The Laurentians s·chool girls of Montreal. To the oped in the Laurentian Zon~ un south is Hill 70 and at its foot der the direction of Paul d' All the house of the celebrated Red men and his hard working com Birds Ski ClUtb, a McGill grad mittee. I understand some 1000 uate aggregation of racing ex miles of trails have been cut, perts. · They have their down with most of them marked and hill, slalom, and: jumping, right mapped. The Maple Leaf Trail at their back door. Nymarks laid out by Hermann Johannsen popular hotel is just back of is the main artery ; starting them. Four ski tows in the im from Labelle 105 miles north of -mediate vicinity, up and down Montreal on the C.P.R. and end they go all day, to me a peculiar ing up at St. Jerome, distance disease, when I can't do my own 90 miles. Partly in the open, climbing I'll quit 3kiing, ~ay I. partly in the bush, climbing Shawbridge is a popular spot, gradually from 750 ·feet at La the Laurentian Lodge, the first belle to 1800 feet around St. ski club in the mountains, ::nany Faustin, descending again to 300 boarding houses, and the open feet at St. Jerome, it traverses country to the east, miles and some of the most interesting miles of it, my favourite play and varied ski country in the ground-not a ski tow in : The Home of Good Coffee • Fried Chicken and Steak Dinners NOTHING Our Specialty • takes the place of comfort Prescott Highway near Hog'sBack -and comfort always has 8-0290w /;,jt place at @oggS Hrmstrong &Richardson "Sf.o• Spsci.aku " ffiarbecue 79 Sparks St. 3-1222 Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 39 DRESSES G€0. H. ll€LffiS COATS SPORTSWEAR PRESCRIPTION OPTICIAN Telephone 2-0804 Telephone 5-4928 68 SPARKS STREET 89 SPARKS STREET FOR QUALITY most AND STYLE TRY Ottawa IDILHO'S men LADIES' WEAR wear • DRESSES-SUITS COATS PRlmiER • PHONE 3-1361 HHTS 207 BANK STREET 92 Sparks -2 stores-209 Bank Slalom Hill Camp Fortune Ted Gordon Harvel finishing 2nd Southam Race Winner Taschl laurentian Ski Zone Cha~ Slalom Race at George W 1st Inter-City COl Cross Country and S 1st Alec West Troph1 Alt Trophy Compet Schussing on Slalom Hill Ted Gordon Frank Ma with Harvey Clifford, above, w Bill Irving starting Slalom Race with Automatic Timer Ken Thomas in Slalom Race eau Race and onship at Mont Tremblant; -ington Meet, Lake Placid; egiate Meet, om, Seignory Club; Southam Trophy and ons, Camp Fortune. Harvey Clifford in Slalom Race nt' :e Don Kihl •ning team Southam Race 42 Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 STADROYS LADIES ·WEAR SMART FEMININE APPAREL TELEPHONE 5-1318 2DD-202v. BANK STREET Spttciahzttd from your hardware ste>re Pholotjraph'j SKIS btj SKI BOOTS, POLES SKATES and BOOTS HOCKEY STICKS The neWlO,nS BILL and JEAN W. a. RADHID Dial 4-1648 LIMITED 410-416 BANK ST. DIAL ~-4241 OTTAWA'S MODERN CENTRAL HOTEL THE BELLE CLAIRE The Favorite Place To Dine TELEPHONE 2-7351 227 QUEEN STREET Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 43 Night Riders week-end Diary by Fred Dixon SAT. 28 OCT. 44 ened to slightly ov·er sixty feet. Old man weather acted pret AJbout eight more trees were re ty grumpy all morning. Kept moved stumps and all by the threatening rain or snow, tried much simpler method of cutting a little of each but couldn't all the ma:in roots, tying the make up his mind. By late block and tackle high up in the afternoon he gave up in disgust tree, hitching Prince, the new and drove his heavy gr·ey clouds O.S.C. acquisition, and saying to new pastures with a strong "Gee Up". Simple isn't it, com north-wester clearing the skies pared to the old BP (before and letting the sun in for the Prince) days. While the boys few remaining moments of day are busy grubbing and cutting light to suck up some of yester roots of new trees for removal, day's rain. Prince is kept busy ·earning his keep hauling · half-ton boulders The N.R.s turned out early in down the creek into position in almost full force. John Clifford the new bridge. and Bill Irving coming up at eight-thirty a.m. with their · We got Dick, one of the work cars fiUed to capacity. I drove men emp1oyed on the lodge con in the afternoon with Clarence struction, to blast one big bould Fuller and Fred Hannah. Stu er that was too large to be re Parsons and Fred Richardson moved in one chunk, and also re the only two missing were out of move two particularly nasty town. Elmer CaiSse! had his stumps, thereby saving our regular gang of Jim Moore, Ron selves hours of hard grubbing. Carwardine and Alan Richard son with him at Pink Lake. John Clifford and Phil Botts were cooks in the Southam Work concentrated chieflv on lodge this week end and whip the new bridge at the foo"t of ped up a good 'hot supper of . Mort's Hill which has been wid- soup, roasted potatoes, oven- Our cook, Emile Danjar, Elmer Cassell sawing planks on in Southern Lodge. Great Divide Bridge. Plaunt Lodge, Night Riders 1943-44 Left to Right, Front Row First -Ted Crain, Freddie F Southam Lodge, Night Riders 1943-44 Left to Right, Front Row First Wa1ter Roche, Stm Parsons, Ted Grant, Bill Irving (.Ca~t.), Fred Richard s-on, Fred Hannah, George Brittain. Harvey Clifford, John Clifford, Ken Thomas, Elmer Cassel, Clarence Fuller. Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 45 baked pork chops, and apple seemed to know exactly what pie. Bill Irving and Dalton we were doing and pitched in Wood weren't going to let the with all his heart and weight. boys in the Southam get ahead (I mean Prince-not Dalton). of the Plaunt Lodge squad, so Without him, it would have they put delicious rice pudding taken us at least another with raisins on their· menu for four weeks to complete it, and dessert. with smaller rocks at that. There is more water flowing After supper, each bunk through Fortune Creek now but house gang got busy installing that diidn't hinder us much. built-in sinks and cupboards with a masonite top. Another The cooks really went to town evening's work and they should on the dinner today : Consomme, be complete. Baked spare-ribs with dressing, George Brittain had a few of Creamed peas, Mashed potatoes, the boys over on the ski tow. A Tea, and Chocolate pudding. We cut ten feet wide and eight feet didn't lose much time polishing deep at its maximum depth is that off. Nor did we give it called for on the blueprint to much time to digest, for we make the tow much more effi wanted to get on with the work cient, and ·easier for the cus and try and get home early this tomers to hang on to. evening. SUN. OCT. 29, 44. The ski-tow crew hit some Wilf, the caretaker, insists it's pretty large boulders and bed "Daylight in de Swamps" when · rock, which they are uncover he comes to wake us up at six ing ready for blasting at a later thirty in the morning. We're date. Hooking up the scraper too sleepy to argue the point, so to the tow rope and using the we get up anyway, at least the motor with a "forward~3top cooks of the week-end do; start reverse" signal system didn't breakfast of bacon, eggs, por prove very satisfactory. We ri.d'ge, etc., and once again we may try using a stone boat. at surprise ourselves by hitting fair with 4igh sides and see if the trail by eight-thirty. that is practical. If that doesn't work, then it looks as thoug!h We split ourselves into two we'll have to use the old chain gangs for the morning, the gang system of shovelling the larger part on the bridge, and dirt from pile to pile down the the rest on the ski tow. hill to be used as fill at the bot tom, where the blueprint calls By noon the masonry part of for an increase in height at one the bridge, which amounts to spot of around six fe~t. two sides extending fifteen feet past the bridge itself on each Three of the bridge gang end, or a total length of about went over in the afternoon to 190 feet, was nearly complete. the Practice Slope where an in Don't know what we'd do with termediate jump is being con out Prince. That noble beast structed. This is designed to with Dalton Wood at the reins encourage jumping as far as 46 Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45. four-way competitions are con The Pink Lake quartet have cerned, with distances of around finished with the foundation of sixty to seventy~five feet. Twelve the new woodshed and "Men's to fourteen trees have to be re Ladies" building, and are ready .moved, gr~;tding and levelling to to lay the floor and then con be done, and a small tower con tinue with the log-'siding waUs structed. The bridge and ski matching the lodge itself; and tow have first priority, as the the red roof. The windows in N. R. rule is always to consider the main lodge are being all re the majority of members first, fitted in order tq be wind tight but these are sufficiently well and keep out the cold. advanced to divert some energy to competitive interests. There is to be a meeting of the N.R.s at Bill Irving's on Supper bell sounded at five Thursday evening to discuss o:clock, and nineteen tired N.R.s progress of the work and lay picked up their tools and called plans for the early winter act it a day. ivities. The Night Riders at Work Bill Irving and John Clifford Bill Irving and Stu Parson laying foundation of working on - Great Divide Bridge Great Divide Bridge MEN'S WEAR Jine CU3tom JaifomJ Clothed ':J)idlinclive _AcceMol'ied 121 BANK STREET DIAL 3-3408 .Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 47 -L'origine du ski- par C. E. Mortureux Le haut plateau de la Mon ment dix ans apres que la popu golie, . borde d'infranchissables lation d'Ottawa, montee sur montagnes, ffit, dit-on, long skis, deborda de Rockcliffe et de temps avant notre ere, Ie pre Fairy Lake pour deferler par mier theatre des ebats du ski vagues successives, telle une sur le globe terrestre. La Ui maree montante, jusqu'aux con gende -veut qu'il ait ete apporte fins du pays tourmente de la par un messager celeste. Quoi Gatineau. La voie avait sans qu'il en soit les Mongols gar doute ete tracee -par quelques derent jalousement le depot qui hardis pionniers qui s'aventu~ leur avait ete confie. Ce ne fut rerent loin des limites de la ville que bien des siecles plus tard des le commencement du siecle, que ce merveilleux instrument mais ils ne constituaient que qui devait jouer un tel role dans des exmples isoles. Dans l'in i'emancipation de la race hu tervalle, les patins de bois maine, passa les frontieres de avaient envahi la Suisse, les leur pays pour se repandre en Alpes franc;aises et meme Ia Laponie puis dans les pays scan montagne de Montreal, faisant dinaves. Les Norvegiens pa leur apparition a ce dernier en raissent avoir ete les premiers droit en 1881. Aujourd'hui on a developper ses qualites sporti peut sans temerite dire que le ves. Un voyageur franc;ais, le ski est l'industrie principa1e des chevalier de la Tocnaye, qui par Laurentides oil ses fervents ac courut I a N orvege en 1793 no us courent par milliers de tous les dit son emerveillement devant points de I' Amerique des la pre les bonds prodigieux que fai miere chute de neige tandis que saient sur Jes flancs des mon des milliers d'autres travaillent tagnes les jeunes gens "chaus tout l'ete a la preparation des ses de longs p·atins de bois". Ce pistes et des cotes. Teiie est voyageur etait aussi un precur,. son emprise sur nous qu'il est seur. II predit le brillant ave devenu -aus-si -necessaire que le nir du ski, la vogue immense boire et le mang.er, et que s'il dont it jouirait un jour dans les etait menace de disparaitre et pays privilegies, oil une gene qu'il fallut pour le racheter tout reuse Providence dispense tous l'or du monde, tout l'or du mon les ans une manne celeste et de ne serait pas de tro-p. II n'est bienfaisante sous forme de nei pas un skieur digne de ce nom ge. qui ne consentirait a donner tout Ce ne fut toutefois que cent son avoir pour -prevenir une vingt ans plus tard, vers 1910, auss~ effroyable calamite. que les bonnes gens d'Ottawa La legende, avons-nous dit, purent s'extasier a leur tour de attribue au ski une origine di vant de memes sauts faits par vine. II ne serait pas sorti de ces memes Norvegiens dans le la main des hommes mais de pare de Rockcliffe, sur la tour celles des anges. C'est dans les de !'Ottawa Ski Club, et se_ule- forets pa:_radisiaques que fut 48 Ottawa Ski Club Yeax Book 1944-45 coupe le frene dont fut fac;onnee voient en lui une oeuvre diabo la premiere paire de skis, dans lique, cet instrument qui a sou la peau d'un buffle des troupeaux lage la pauvre humanite de celestes que furent taillees les l'esdavage des villes et de l'en lanieres qui servirent a faire sa lisement des neiges eternelles, ne monture, du rucher du bon Dieu peut etre qu'un don divin. Nous que vint la eire dont elle fut qui connaissons ses bienfaits, fartee. Faite de materiaux in qui·avons joui de la merveilleuse corruptvbles et fac;onnee par 1a sensation d'une descente sur une main des ouvriers celestes cette neige poudreuse, voire meme premiere paire a dil survivre a d'urie simple excurs·ion en foret l'usure du temps et peut etre sous le ciel bleu de nos hivers, sera-t-elle decouverte un jour nous admettons l'1intervention sous les sa1bles du desert de Gobi. celeste. D'ailleurs le mot "di Que ne donnerions-nous pour vin" n'a-t-il pas toujours ete I'a voir en notre possession? universellement emp-loye pour decrire la sensation sans egale Une legende, ai-je dit? J'en du ski, et ne serait-ce pas 1a une tends l'innombrable legion des preuve convaincante s'il en fal skieurs protester d'une seule lait une? Seul un instrument voix. Non ce n'est pas une le d'origine divine pouvait procu gende mais la verite meme. rer a la race humaine une telle Quoiqu'en disent quelques grin somme de jouissanee. cheux maladroits qui ne con naissent du ski que 1es chutes et ----V---- Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 49 The Willingdon Trail W-e had been over to Camp explored ridges, bush roads, Fortune and back in record time, glens and valleys to choose from and stood there, at the opening in this delightful park land, of the Canyon Trail on the changes were to be expected, Meach Lake road, loath to go the trail could not stay set, and home when the afternoon was even now it may be said to be in still so young. It was one of a fluid, not static state, like all thos LONGER LASTING · REASONABLY PRICED • PHONE 2-4889 F'DR APPOINTMENT • JUUl'S BERUTY SRLOO 99 RIDEAU STREET Traveler's Trail by moonlight 52 Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 caF€- THE BEST POSITIONS DEMAND H€nRY BURG€R EFFICIENT TRAINING We have it for sale at 69, rue LAURIER S12 A MONTH HULL, Que. UJILLIS BUSinESS COLLEGE Mme Burger DUDBRR SCHOOL proprietaire J. WILFRED KENNEDY Principal 14Sv. Sparks St. Tel. 3-3031 Registered with the Department of Education under the Trade Schools Regulation Act. Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 53 Through Cuban Eyes by Lieut. M. C. Harrington, R.C.N.V.R. (late private secretary to the Chilean Minister to Canada) As a Latin American, I will joined the ranks of these winter endeavour to describe my im haters. At last spring came. · pressions of skiing in Canada, Summer passed and another with special reference to the winter was approaching when I Ottawa Ski Club and its splen happened to be talking to some did facilities. Having travelled new acquaintances, and they extensively through twenty dif suggested that I take up skiing. ferent countries, the natural Faced with the dreary prospect beauty of Canada ,struck me, of inactivity during the coming and right there I fell in love winter months and looking down· with it. I must confess that it at my waist line, I decided there was summer-time and I was and then, that after all there s·pending a month at Long Lake, is only one life and "Allah be north of Lake Simon, up from blessed!" I walked into a de Papineauville. The long even partment store and bought the ings with the ever changing hues whole equipment, from the boot of the sunset reflected on the laces to the wax. waters evoked in me poetic feel My first experience was gain ings. For the first time in my ed at Rockcliffe, where I tried life, I felt satisfied to be alone the gentle slopes near the end and be able to drink in the of the car line. The next day I matchless beauty of my sur proceeded to the slopes leading roundings. My "portage" trip down to the look-out and believe through the wild country to it or not the third time I went Nominingue confirmed my ini down what used to be the ski tial impressions. As time went jump at Rockcliffe. I attribute on, I had more opportunities of this astonishing progress to the getting to know Canadians bet fact that in my college days I ter. Their sincere kindness, and had been a mile runner and that above all their delightful frank I am still a devoted acrobatic ness, won my heart. Reading dancer. Nijinski, the immortal about Canada's achievement in ballet dancer of all time, is said t'he war effort, I felt that here to have skied perfectly the first indeed was a new nation of poli time he ever put a pail' of skis tical significance emerging into on in Switzerland, and he was the international sphere. already over 30 years old. My first winter in Canada My next sortie was to Fairy had been quite a novelty to me. Lake but the physical contour of In no country I had visited had the place did not particularly at I ever seen such enormous mass tract me. Dome Hill was my es of snow. Everyone I hap next olbjective. I shall never pened to meet-and they were forget the second time I was of course non-skiers-cursed there: it was a Saturday morn this feature of Canadian wea ing and the thermometer marked ther and before long I also had 30 below. This particular hill 54 Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 Compliments of Ottawa Dairy Company , Division of The Borden Company Limited Phone 2-5741 Complete Adult Ski Consisting of Outfit • Skis • Boots • Bindings ll.9S • Poles • Treads We Carry a Complete Line of • Men's and Women's Parkas • Ski Slacks • Ski Mitts • Ski Socks and other Ski Accessories La:~~ay DOY~~~s according to W .P.T.B. regulations. SPORTING GOODS- HARDWARE 187 SPARKS ST. S-1481 ARTWORK- ENGRAVING BLUEPRINTS- PHOTOSTATS CR~BTREE CR~VURE LIMITED 317 QUEEN STREET DIAL 2-1587 Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 55 thrilled me as I took it full blast cial tuition in Spanish at ·a from the top; and not yet know private home, when I happened ing the intricacies of slaloming, to see a picture of two attractive I could barely make a sweeping young ladies in bathing coa turn at the bottom. tumes and on skis. I enquired Finally I graduated to Camp about this new phenomenon, Fortune. The first few times I since I had experienced Cana parked at Dunlop's, until I m;tde dian winter weather. Although the thrilling acquaintance of th_e reluctant to accept the fact, I Canyon trail and its initial was emphatically assured of its bumps. Henceforth I parked at feasability. So at the first op King,smere, crossing the golf portunity in spring, I stripped course and cljmbing to the Ridge to the waist and sat on one of Road. I can remember many a the benches outside the club beautiful Sunday when the pines house and acquired a nice tan. were covered with fresh snow, Frankly I was shivering, al the dark green of their branches though I was proud to be one of contrasting with the blue of the the very few to brave the cold skies and the golden sun cast breeze blowing down from Bon ing shadows on the virgin snow. ny Brae. No wonder Canada has produced I have 1been asked by many such good landscape artists: about skiing conditions outside this is a painter's paradise! To of Canada. In Europe the Alps this vivid picture of nature, the are the main skiing grounds, al reds, yellows, blues, and khakis though other countries boast of of the skiers must be added, as their skiing facilities. The fact well as the occasdonal cries of: is that one has to travel far to "Track! Track!". Camp For reach skrling terrain, and this tune on a Sunday: how refresh makes skiing an exclusive and ing in one's weekly schedule! expensive sport. Canada is a true communion with nature. particularly privileged in that skiing is truly democratic and The pinnacle of my thrilling within economic reach of the experiences on skis was wheri average citizen. my exploring spirit took me to In that respect the Ottawa investigate the trail behind the Ski Club has the finest facilities Divide. Although I did not of any ski club I know. Even know it, it was no less than the the famous ski ground·s north of cote du Nord'. What a descent! Montreal are only accessible It was my eighth time on skis after a tedious train journey of and I actually did not fall once, several hours. As Ottawa is al but please don't ask me to repeat most at sea-level, the descent that feat again-at least not un from Camp Fortune to Ottawa til I have learned how to check is as great as those in the Lau properly. As the season ad rentians, which froin a skiing vanced, I negotiated the Merry standpoint is the important go-round and its spine-tickling issue. The trails in and around Dippers, as well as the wash Camp Fortune are of the best I board of the Highland Fling. have seen, although I have not One evening I was giving spe- been to the Mont Tremblant' 56 Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 district. As for slaloming, hav ed elsewhere, as well as the wish ing spent several days at St. to take a part in Canada's war Sauveur and Ste Adele, I con effort, have caused me to join sider that our S-lalom hill com the R.C.N.V.R. If my duties take pares very favourably with hills me a way from 1. Ottawa, many 69 and 70 at St. Sauveur, which happy memories of my stay in are considered the best ih the Canada will have a definite link country. I have not yet had the ing with Camp Fortune. And privilege of going to the Pacific when Armistice Day finally coast ski regions. comes, I shall without doubt re Meanwhile, my various inner trace my steps to Ottawa and experiences that I have mention- · CAM'P FORTUNE. Compliments of Hllens Grill 175 BANK STREET - TELEPHONE 2-8059 dfeshey ~ !lea !Room Prescott Highway FULL A LA COURSE CARTE MEALS SERVICE REFRESHMENTS AND melody rRanch DANCING HAY DRIVES, SLEIGH DRIVES AND SADDLE HORSES FOR HEALTH AND RECREATION TELEPHONE 3-0677 DON GIBSON Proprietor Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 57 The Tale of a Horse by James S. Patrick From the beginning of time always led their armies into bat the horse has played a promin tle on horseback. What ii! the ent role in the lives of men and best known and most colourful n·ations. We remember the story military exploit of British his of the Trojan Horse and how a tory?-the Charge of the Light number of Greek warriors were Brigade ! When we think of the hidden inside it, who admitted pioneers of the American West, the Greek army into ~he city of we immediately think of th~ Troy. But that was a wooden covered wagon . . . horse and should~ perhaps be However, after this brief re classed with the clothes horse sume on horses in general and and the saw-horse, also valuable horses of bygone days, Wt! must members of the horse family. get down to the present day and However, let us confine our one horse in particular-and observations to that particuiar this is how the story goes : horse Mr. Webster describes, in "A horse, a horse, my king part, as: dom for a horse!" cried Bill Ir ving, Captain of the Night Rid horse (hOrs) n.: A large solid ers as he stood, his arms akim hoofed herbivorous animal bo, on the knoll of Camp For (Equus caballus) domesticated tune. He was ·not thinking of by man since a pre-historic King Richard III, but only sur period and used as a beast of veying Johnny Dunlop's "bony burden... old skate" which had been hired In the realm of mythology. at so much per day. (If apolo Saint George is depicted mount gies are due to Johnny's. equus ed on a powerful charger shy ooballus for such an epithet ing the dragon-the poor old they must come from Bill, for dragon didn't have a chance. I'm quoting him.) Apparently But take away the horse and the this old nag had completely ex- story· would be pretty hard to believe. And you take Lady Godiva-could you imagine her running around the streets of' Coventry in her bare pelt? No, siree, she just had to have a horse. . The headless horseman who frightened Ichabod Crane in the Legend of Sleepy Hollo'w, too, could never have got on without a horse. But to get down to more !'olid things, the horse has played an important part in world history and in the march of civilization: The ancient kings and generals 58 Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 pended his energy plodding up experiences with· horses had Dunlop road, and all Wilf Gosse been bad-they always came in lin's giddaps, gees and haws last; Treasurer Bernier said the were of no avail-he refused !-o auditors would not pass the ac tighten the traces, let alone do count; the Secretary had been the hauling he had been hired in the Artillery in the last war for. and was afraid he'd have to do Of course, Bill was mortified the grooming. at this needless expenditure of However, the dynamic captain club funds. (We all know how of the said Night Riders was not economical Bill is with the club's to be put off. money, unless it's a matter of ''Wilf," he suggested, "you steam-heated cabins and Beau buy the horse and we'll hire it tyrest mattresses for his pre from you." cious Night Riders!) But we Wilf was quite agreeable. He needed a horse badly, with the saw no reason why he should hauling that was to be done, so stand around and watch Johnny the Night Rider Captain scratch Dunlop rob the club when he ed his head in deep · contempla could do it himself. tion. Suddenly he had an in spiration. The trading spirit of his French-Canadian forebears be "Wilf," he exclaimed enthus ing aroused, Gosselin hunted the iastically, "let's buy a horse!" countryside high and low, final Wilf Gosselin, the genial care ly landing back at Camp Fortune taker of Camp Fortune, looked with a fine, dapple-grey horse up with surprise, and the Dun by the name of Prince. Ap lop horse contentedly sank to its parently Prince had heard of knees. the inefficiency or laziness of his "What do you mean, Bill predecessor, and wishing to who should buy a horse?" he vindicate the good name of the asked. equus caballus, he entered into "I mean, why should the rlub the work of hauling things with hire a worn-out skate that won't gusto. Just to keep him busy work? Why couldn't we buy a Wilf got hold of a scoop, and horse ourselves?" levelled off the ground around "Sure,. that's a good idea. We the lodge. (By the way, since could use one all the year round. then Wilf sowed grass seed on You ·get permission to spend the that area and probably next money and I'll scout around the year will be planting beds of country for a good horse." geraniums.) But it was not so easy as Bill Irving was delighted with that. Bill consulted the hard Prince and was not backward in boiled executive of the club and telling him so. Prince, however, they were adamant-no hor;;;e. said that was all eye-wash and President Mortureux said it was that if he really appreciated his unconstitutional, that neither services he would build him a our constitution nor by-laws sta.ble. Bill saw Prince's point mentioned horses; Legal Advis and immediately got Wilf and er George McHugh said all his his assistant, Gerard Seguin, to Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 59 build a handsome stable out of of Prince. We simply have to some lumber from Sigurd's charge Wilf a rea-sonable (or jump, which they had just dis unreasonable) rent for the stable mantled. (Shades of departed and a fair (or unfair) rate for sky riders!) pasturage. This should more Since Prince has become an than offset what we pay for established fact the members of Prince's services and automatic the executive are all claiming his ally the purchase price will be services for their own particular wiped out. (I was born north of benefit. Naturally Bill Irving the Tweed.) thinks he should be at the beck So you see, dear fellow mem and call of the Night Riders. bers, we have established an Vice-President Mar·shall wants other record. The Ottawa Ski to use him for ski-joring over Club has the best trails, the fin the Western trail. Rubie Doug est house on the continent. It las has the idea that he could has the best-looking girls and rig up some kind of tread-mill the swiftest ski-runners. Now and make Prince take the place to top it all we can claim to be of the capricious motor that the only one-horse club in tbe driv·es the ski-tow. Second Vice world. President Sigurd Locke-berg maintains that he has half in terest in the horse, since his beloved jump provided the ma terial for the stable! It will take some time to settle this, matter, but if it comes to the worst the decision can be left ~o a Royal Commission. Thus far. of course, the horse still belongs to our good friend Wilf Gosselin--.:but not for long. As your secretary, and always looking out for the interests of the Ottawa Ski Club, I have de vised a plan whereby the club will ultimately be the sole owner Bill Irving, Captain of Night Riders LIFE INCOME ACCIDENT INSURANCE BLANKET EXPENSE ACCOUNT INCLUDING TREATMENT BY OSTEOPATH or CHIROPRACTOR IAN R. J 0 N H S T 0 N E 4-9659 202 QUEEN ST. 2-9438 60 Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 The renovated Pink Lake Lodge The old green eyed monster Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 61 Pink Lake A new Ski Centre Geographically speaking, the have mastered the art of nego G.atineau country extends as far tiating turns and bumps and as the shores of the Ottawa can make good speed over flats, River; for all practical purposes but rather from green skiers, however, it ends or begins just or ski-tow addicts, who, having where the Pink Lake trail shoots outstayed their leave at Camp out of the bush, about a mile Fortune and missed the return and a half from the street car bus, undertake for the first time, terminus. The first part of that and with legs already wobbling, last stretch is still pleasantly to cover this long stretch of rolling, Gatineau-like land ; the bush and clearings at the close rest. is flat, pancake-like, strong of the day. ly reminiscent of the endless It is indeed a fairly long plains of Eastern Ontario across stretch, possilbly ten miles and the river. certainly not under· nine, made Between the Wrightville car up of a number of sections or line and the great ski centre of branches, each called a trail. Camp Fortune, a trail has been These paths were gradually de gradually developed through veloped one by one, named as years of incessant work by ski they came into being, and later pioneers, attached or unattach connected to make the great ed to a clu:b. This is the Wright "Wrightville Trail". Starting ville trail, the most useful per from the lodge of Camp For haps, and certainly · the most tune, they include the following: abused of all our snow ways The Lane, a steep grade con useful because it goes straight necting with the Ridge Road; home, whereas other trails wan George"s, from the Ridge to der round in search of hills and Kingsmere Lake, a wicked little scenery, abused ibecause it in trail, of bumpy disposition, cludes a few flat stretches, and known from time immemorial quite a few steep twisty descents as the graveyard of poor skiers; generally made fast and icy by the Mica Mine Trail, from the passage of hundreds of Kingsmere Lake to Pink Lake plank hoppers. Such as it is lodge, over MacKenzie King's however, the trail is a great broad acres and four long, favourite with the more demo smooth, . extremely "pleasant cratic members of the ski frat slides. The last section, which ernity. the penniless and the has been re-routed at various "autoless". It is also popular times during the last fifteen with the energetic and tireless years until it now takes in all because it gives them a chance the sloping ground that can be to let off steam and stretch their found in that part of the coun legs to their heart's content be try, is the Pink Lake Trail; it fore getting home. The abuse starts from the lodge, climbs a or criticism d'oes not come so bit at first then drops into the much from the old habitues who bush by a series of tricky and 62 Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 fast slopes, including the well more in times of tire and gas known Birch Valley, traverses shortage like the present. At the flat expanse of Radmore's first, before the bus came to clearing, re-enters the bush in Chelsea, the Wrightville hikers search of more tricky slopes included 80 per cent of the Club which it manages to find, and membership, and later only 20 comes out on the smiling but un per cent, but as the membership sheltered plains of Wrightville went up from a few hundred to after a long flight of bumps. Ex well over 2,000, the number of perienced skiers never allow Pink Lake visitors remained themselves to be caught by dark substantially the same, from ness on the Pink Lake Trail. 300 to 400 every good week-end. Standing in a lovely glen, The lodge however was sadly carpeted with junipers and neglected, because Camp For framed tune took all the surplus funds with stately pines, the of the Club. During the twenty Pine Lake lodge, near the little years of its existenc·e, lake of the only that nam€, invites the care given to it was a coat of weary traveler to rest and dirty green quench stain, making it look his thirst. Water is kept like a green-eyed! monster. boiling there at all times in a Weather beaten and dilapidat hug,e boiler, and tea pots are ed after twenty years of neglect, available. Ther€ are also fairly its floor burnt through in spots, steep hills around there, but few and rising and falling like the stop to try ·them because there waves of the sea, its roof leak are still five miles to cover to ing, its rough seats and tables get to the end of the trail. being minus huge chunks, hack Pink Lake lodge had long ed out for kindling by vandals, been a bone of contention. Its it was indeed', until this year, in building was strongly opposed at a pitiful condition, an object of first, some contending that the repulsion more than attraction, Dome Hill Lodge could be used entirely out of keeping with its for a rest station, if a short way marvelous surroundings. to it could be found; others that Then came Elmer Cassel, the Hull bus or street car serv Night Rider and Patrolman Ex ice would surely extend along traordinary, who by some lucky the Mountain Road before long, stroke, was placed in charge of and in that case, no one would · patrol operations on the Wright stop at the lodge. because the· ITille trail. His task was to at road runs parallel to tlie trail, tend to the casualties, whether and onJy half a mile from it. A broken bones or broken skis, short and interesting way to urge the stragglers on by stress Dome Hill never was found; the ing the danger of lagging on a car line is just as far to-day trail overrun after dark with from Pink Lake as it was twenty dynosaurs and snow snakes years ago. So the lodge has al and put them on the road if they ways been used more or less could' no ranger shuffle their through the years, more in times skis forward. His duty called of depression than in times of for one trip down from Camp prosperity~ and a great deal Fortune at the close of the day, Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 63 ".___/lad j" '!fou• rf!en ~ Skop SKI TOGS Jor Jun Outdoor3 Jhi3 Sea3on Jo feep Jjou Snug Jor Jrohc3 .!J-n Jhe Snow • SKI BOOTS • SHIRTS • PARKAS • MITTS • SLACKS • JACKETS • SOX • CAPS McKIRRACHlR·WANLESS_ ~ LIMITED RIDEAU and SUSSEX STREETS FORD FOR FALLEN ARCHES ADJUSTED EASING KNEE PAINS ExAMINATION FREE - TROUBLES OF THE BODY CHIROPRACTOR and DRUGLESS THERAPIST 19 WILTON Crescent · Dial 4-7766 64 Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 timing his departurB one hour or so after that of the last home ward bound skier. He did a good bit more than that how ever; he came up on Saturday and went d'own on Sunday, thus covering twenty miles of ter ritory every week-end. Elmer was not long in perceiving that the Pink Lake Lodge was by far the 'worst casualty on the trail, the one most in need ·Of atten tion. He explored around the lodgB and found in the immediate vici nity a number of ridges with high hills, almost as good as those of .Camp Fortune. All they needed was a bit of clean STYLE ing. Of the many thousands of GOES TO YOUR HEAD ski riders who, through the long years, had tumbled home down this trail, following one another • like sheep, none had ever looked outside of the beaten paths. El You don't have a lot of mer did, and became convinced time to bother with your that here was an excellent op hair when skiing.- Let us portunity of developing a new· ski centre much closer to the city style it in a flattering way than Camp Fortune and reliev for an all-occasion well ing the congestion there. The groomed appearence. first thing to do was to make the lodge more attractive and hospi table. Strongly supported by Bill For Appointment Irving, the energetic Captain of Phone the Night Riders, Elmer plead 5-1474 ed his case before the Executive and was voted a grant of $500. It was to be only the first of a series of grants. In order to save money, the Night Riders !Jan C!Jo/a undertook to do the job under the supervision of their Captain, ffieauty_ 8a/on who himself put in over two hundred hours solid of work, un 787 BANK STREET remunerated. Later on, when Corner Third Avenue ' Bill moved up to Camp Fortune, Elmer took over the work. The Club agreed to pay the board and Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 65 transportation of the workers. I It was not perhaps a very great saving, as between swims in Pink Lake, the sawing of boards and the hammering of nails, the workers developed tremendous ·appetites, but the job was done in masterly fashion, as well and perhaps better than any good carpenter could have done, and that was the essential thing. The lodg,e was jacked up and its floor straightened and repair ed; the unsightly wood shed and toilet that bulged out on both sides of the entrance were torn out and rebuilt as a separate For a unit. The outside of the build healthy active ing was sheeted with log siding,· painted white with red shutters, Winter same as at Camp Fortune; the inside was lined with Insulboard enjoy the and Masonite; comfortable comfort and benches, chairs and tables were coziness provided; a cafeteria was built of ski togs from which Major Hancock, a for the neighbour who has successfully operated for years a refresh family ment stand at the Hill Top Tea from House, just across the Hermit's Road, will dispense full course LAROCQUE'S meals, and steaming hot tea or coffee to week-end visitors. In short, the Pink Lake Lodge has been turned into one of the pret tiest, most attractive and most SHOP 1 comfortable lodges of our sys and tem, and as it is only half as far from the city as Camp Fortune, SAVE it is hoped that it may attract many skiers direct from Hull and Ottawa. Some may come by car as far as the Hermit's Road, a mile or so from the Carrier Rideau lodge, but the majority will Dalhousie & George Sts. probably pick up the trail from Wrightville. Other measur·es were taken by Elmer to insure the permanency 66 Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 of the Wrightville trail for fu ture generations of skiers. A numiber of gates, built by the Night Riders, were placed at strategic points along the way to save the fences and the temp er of the farmers, almost at breaking point. Of very pret ty design, painted red and stamped with the initials of the Ottawa Ski Clu!b, these gates will, as well as the renovated Pink Lake Lodge, stand as a monument to the foresight of the best friend the Wrightville trail ever had-Elmer Cassel, of Night Rider fame.-C.E.M. PLHZH HOTlL --- V-- - and TEA ROOM SMART DRESSES FOR YOUNG WOMEN QUALITY HAS NO· SUBSTITUTE WITH us PHONE 2-9950 137 SPARKS 'sT. 219 Sparks Street Opposite Citizen Bldg. Next to Regent Theatre Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 67 Camp·Fortune to Wrightville Via Pink Lake by Elmer Cassel So you are contemplating the Let us make the first trip return trip to th~ city on skis, from the Camp Fortune end of and wondering whether or not the trail. The run is made in you can manage to negotiate the three distinct sections, namely: short ten miles of trail from Camp ,Fortune to Kingsmere; Camp Fortune via Pink Lake to Kingsmere to Pink Lake via the Wrightville? Do you recall the Mica Mine Trail; and Pink Lake exciting tales and terrifying ex- to Wrightville via the Pink Lake periences told to greenhorns Trail. about the hills at Camp Fortune, For variation, there are also and especially the Canyon three ways out from Camp For Trail? Now that you have tak- tune to Kingsmere. First, and en them in their stride, you look long.est route, is the Highland back with a twinkle and exclaim, Trail-especially named for "Nothing to it!" or wistfully those of ye wi' a d:rappie o' Scots murmur "Wish I had come here · blood in your veins. You should "Ooner." u find "Doch and Doris", "A Wee To the average week-end ski- Drop", and especially the "High er, a ten mile jaunt sounds some- land Fling,. exhilarating:, excit what like a route march, and ing, and satisfying. Grimes' the first time a friend told me Hill, which may be gone over I would be doing that same ten (tby the experts) or around, wiU miles just for the fun of it, my bring the skier to Kingsmere prompt and' skeptical reply was, Lake. The second and perhaps "0 Yeah'·"· the best way is up Fortune· Lane· By some strange whim of cir- to the Ridge Road with a jog to cumstance, the most of · my the left and right via George's maiden run from Kingsmere to Trail to the foot of the Highland Pink Lake was made unaccom- Fling. At this point there open panied, and over a none too well eth a high way and a low: wheTe marked or beaten trail. Elated each and every skier must de with my accomplishment the cide which way his skis shall go. next week found me trying it But here endeth the parallelism, both ways. Since that time, I for both ;trails converge again have been entirely independent near the foot of Grimes' Hill. of gas rationing, frozen radia- The· third and last way is up tors, and bus or train schedules . . the Canyon Trail to Ridge Road Transportation worries have -which junction may also be now become a thing of the past, reached from Ft>rtune Lane or and since the installation of up Pleasant Valley-down the cafeteria services this year at Ridge Road to Booth parking lot Pink Lake Lodge under the eK- (you would never recognize it in pert direction of Major and Mrs. winter garb), or better still, the E. Hancock, hunger worries hairpin turn at Excelsior with a have been entirely forgotten too. left, right and left in rapid sue- 68 Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 cession, and a quick run across Taking the Pink Lake Trail the golf course to the road. from here the last lap of the There is a short cut across jaunt from Camp Fortune to the country from the road to the Wrightville car line may be ac Mica Mine Trail which. various complished in a little more than ly is described as starting at an hour of fairly easy skiing. Kingsmere-shall we say at the Except for about half a mile of foot of Grimes' Hill-and across level terrain midway, and again the lake. Kingsmere lake has a near the journey's end, the re habit of acquiring about an inch rt:lainder of the four mile hike is of slush between the ice and practically an down hill. snow, occ&sionally impeding The Birch Valiey run is per progress. The two trails, how haps the most beautiful and in ever, meet just above the first teresting of the runs, and while rise on the side toad, and after a few of the Night Riders may some meandering, the trail try it at night, the average skier crosses the Prime Minister's should plan to take it before estate. Check at the bottom of afternoon shadows have faded the first hill, and take the next into twilight. Another short four long, smooth, swift runs slide, a bit of open country, and with confidence and pleasure. wooded slopes again. Jus't about Practically no up hill work, at this point if your timing is . makes the downhill runs excel correct, and luck is with you, lent value for the train ride up you may thrill to a gorgeous sun to Chelsea or Tenaga. set and count the snow-capped A quarter of a mile of easy ridges on the rising moon. One skiing across open country soon long look, and an equally long brings the skier to the end of the run with perhaps a slight bump Mica Mine Trail and in sight of half way down, and the welcome beautiful "Pink Lake Lodge" lights indicate "Journey's End" where a tasty morsel or a full just over the little rise. course meal, piping hot, is wait ·The trip has certainly been ing to tickle the palate of the well worth the bit of effort it most fastidious or habitual took to get started; weather, gourmand. Linger for a pleas scenery, snow and trail cond'i-' ant time amongst congenial tions have been grand; and re friends and these enchanting gardless of whether you are ten hills, but tarry not too long with or three score and ten, you will out the polaroids, lest perchance want to go back next week and you emulate Ulysses without his try it an over again. wax. ----V---- · [JJ~tronize our Jl[dvertisers and when ma/u,'ng your purchases mention the "Year 0ook '' Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 69 CANADIAN T'IRE CORP. Assoc. Store REAL VALUES IN SKIING AND SKATING SUPPLIES COLD WEATHER NEEDS FOR CAR OWNER * Phone 2-2601 394 Bank St. Ottawa 70 Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 Summer Sojourn at Pink Lake by James S. Patrick Pink Lake Lodge has always It is therefore expected that, been looked on as a sort of half owing to the difficulty of two way house-a place to stop for_ way transportation and the rest and refreshment midway somewhat crowded condition of between Camp Fortune and the Camp Fortune lodge, a goodly Wrightville car-line. While this number of our members will gave it a certain utility value, prefer to take the train or bus its virtues had been regarded as to Chelsea and ski through to being rather commonplace and Pink Lake, spending the day more or less negative. It was ther€; and· thence to Wright just a place to relax in before ville. Others will ski up from venturing the thrilling Birch Wrightvlille, make 'their head Valley run and the long trek quarters at Pink Lake, and ski across the Flats. back in the evening. all this is going to be In fact, if the beginners and But would adop-t changed, for Pink Lake is about less expert skiers an attraction in its one of the above plans, or alter to become nate from one to the other, they own right-and not only in win and all the year round ... would enjoy skiing more, ter, but be more sure of getting home all . Before I start my narrative, in one piece. However, even the it would perhaps be well to tell proficient skier will find the long you why the Pink Lake lodge is rolling runs of the Pink Lake going to be a major centre for trail extremely enjoyable; and skiing in future, and really a if he wants thrills, I am sure second headquarters of the Ot the Night Riders will provide tawa Ski Club, instead of an plenty of them within a stone's auxiliary branch. When the throw of Pink Lake lodge. alteratio~s subsequently ex But let's get on with the plained are completed, it will be story: one of the prettiest and most One Saturday afternoon, I complete little ski lodges in Can took a notion to "bike" to Pink ada. There will be a cafeteria Lake to see how Bill Irving and run by Major Hancock, where a his Night Rid€rs were getting full-course meal or any part of on with the renovation of the it may be obtained at a reason somewhat dilapidated lodge. able price. (Of course, you may After pedalling up the Mount still cook your own if you pre ain road (and I say "up" ad fer to do so.) The Night Riders visedly), I came upon a sign are starting to clear an excellent reading "Hill Top Tea-room"~ slalom hill, as well as a down Dismounting my bicycle, I push hill run that 'will compare fa ed it almost straight up in the vourably with any we have at ai.r for a full quarter of a mile Camp Fortune. Other hills and till I reached the appropriately trails 'in the neighbourhood will named establishment, maintain be cleared and developed. ed by the genial and erudite Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 71 "OTTAWA'S MOST POPULAR SPORTS CENTRE" -FEATURING- The Finest in ladies' and Men's Ski Outfits • Deacon Grenfell, Fairway, Tolton Clothing • Penmans Authentic Ski Socks • Palmer Ski Boots • A.L. & W. and A.B.C. Ski Poles and Fittings • Goggles, Wax, Mitts, Caps, Etc. TH€ SPORT SHOP FRANK I. RITCHIE 98 BANK STREET Dial 2-6278 72 Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 Major Hancock (British Army, · retired) and his good wife. Even had I been unfamiliar with the terrain, I could have GIFTS easily found the lodge, for the air was filled with the grating of saws and the piercing ring of hammers. Parking my bike, I followed the path to the lodge. COSTUME Bill and six of his disciples were JEWELRY . working with a speed that would have shocked the local union officials; they wore only bathing LINEN trunks or shorts and running shoes, and were as brown as Indians. · CHINAWARE Being afraid that Bill would hand me a saw or a hammer (to which instruments I am dis SILK tinctly .allergic), I left .the lodge and proceeded down the valley, ·--· where the pine-and-juniper CLOISONNE scented air gave way to the dank ...... smell of ferns and bracken. Suddenly the trees parted EMBROIDERIES and I had my first view of Pink & Lake in summer-time! It 'lay translucent in an amphitheatre CARViNGS of wooded hills and towering, precipitous cliffs of solid rock. The high bank of the opposite GIFTS THAT ARE shore reared up majestically in the afternoon sun . . . in the FROM THE FAR EAST rocky wall the white trunks of stood BROUGHT NEAR the birches and poplars out vividly among the dark TO YOU green of the pines and the light er green of the cedars. The ·--· water was clear as crystal and at the entire lake was ringed with 167 Sparks St. low ledges of rock that in places were so smooth and sheer that they looked like man-made, re taining walls of cement. When I got back to the lodge the boys had finished for the afternoon and were preparing to go for a swim. One of them CHINESE GIFT SHOP lent me a pair of trunks, so I Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 73 went along. The boys frolicked around like a flock of seals, div ing from the rocky ledges at all angles into the cool clear dep-ths. PLAUUT The water was like champagne and the di.ver remained visible, Hardware Co. leaving behind a trail of effer vescent bubbles. It was one of the most enjoyable swims I had ever experienced. After dressing, we all repair ed to Major Hanco·ck's dining room for dinner. What a boun teous meal! And Mrs. Han cock's home-made pie! .. almost as good as my wife's. (You never can tell, she may read this.) You may easily guess that by this time I was comp'letely un der the spell of Pink Lake's charm. Where could I find a better place for spending a week in restful contemplation ! Ac SKIS cordingly, I reserved a cabin at Maple...... 2.25 to 7.50 the "Hill Top" for the following Ash...... 3.98 to 7.50 week. Hickory...... 9.95 to 18.50 The next Saturday afternoon Children's ...... 1.95 to 4.98 my wife and I took a taxi to the C.C.M. Laminated Major's place. The weather was ...... 15.00 to 18.50 glorious; and we were allotted a neat little cabin on the hil1side POLES among the sumacs. About thir Tonkin ...... 1.25 to 4.60 ty feet up the hill behind the cabin is a huge boulder of at BINDINGS least twenty-five tons, fiat on ...... 2.98 to 7.50 top. It was an excellent retreat SKI BOOTS for reading, and gave a bird's ...... 4.95 to 24.00 eye view of the surrounding countryside. Here we spent Accessories many peaceful and happy hours. EXPERT REPAIRS On Sunday I had plenty of Steel edges attached to time to view Pink Lake lodge and appreciate just how much any ski work the Night Riders had done. DIAL 2-3781 The old wood.. shed and the in 322 SPARKS ST. door toilet with outdoor plumb ing which had "grac·ed" the Corner of Lyon Street front entrance were gone, and 74 Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944--45 \ in their p-lace was a neat porch. tle siesta after lunch. In the The whole building had · been evening I chatted with the Han jacked up leve'l and set on new cocks, read, and lounged around cedar posts. The outside had enjoying the invigorating been log-sided, the knots shel mountain air and the calm still lacked, and the surface given ness that comes with the setting two coats of white paint. In of the sun. side, Bill and his boys were busy During that week I lived the putting "Insul-Board" on the life. of Reilly! I was the only ceiling. What a transform regular guest at the inn and felt ation! like Louis XIV, sitting alone in But I made one fatal mistake in the dining-room receiving the -I showed too much interest undivided attention of the kind and enthusiasm. And this ls ly and generous Mrs. Hancock. why: Bm, the crafty captain of She waited on me hand and foot. the Night Riders, when he heard and even catered .to my person that I was going to spend a week al taste in the matter of food.' or so in those parts, casually Bill Irving and his young suggested that it might relieve · brother Bob came up W edneR the boredom if I would under day afternoon and worked tiil take to give the lodge its third Friday night panelling the ceil coat of white paint. He started ing and doing fussy little jobs off very gently but gradually in that required special attention. creased the pressure, finally On Saturday there was an in bribing me by offering the use vasion of fourteen Night Riders. of his battery radio set for the Bill had them all organized into week. I succumbed. And heav gangs : some were painting the en help the member I find park window-frames a brilliant red; ing his (or her) skis against others were applying "Mason that glossy surface! ite" to the walls, making shut ters which were first-coated im Early Monday morning my mediately, clearing up rubbish ever-faithful helpmeet deserted me for more pressing duties in the city, leaving me all alone in the fastness of Pink Lake with a large paint brush and a five gallon can of white paint for company. Nevertheless, I had a glorious vacation-and here is the rou tine I followed: news over the rent-free ( ?) radio at 8 a.m.; breakfast at 9; reading til~ 10.30; exercise (with the paint brush) 10.30 till noon; swim; news at 1; and lunch at 1.30. My afternoon schedule was pretty much the same, although I al ways managed to work in a lit- Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 · 75 »» Ottawa's Largest Sports Centre «« Ski .Headquarters for HANNES SCHNEIDER JACKETS - SLACKS - BOOTS CCM LAMINATED SKIS DODDS "CHALET" SKIS STEEL & CANE POLES SKI BOOTS - BINDINGS WAXES - RUCK SACKS AND BELT BAGS SKIS TO RENT - SKIS REPAIRED -* GEORGE BOURNE REG'D. 151 RIDEAU STREET PHONE 3-8407 76 Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 around the lodge, etc., etc. Each simply idyllic, and we had a had his own job to do and seem grand time. ed bent on getting it done as soon as possilble. It was a hive But Sunday evening was the of industry; but having finished highlight of the whole trip. my painting job on Friday, I About dusk, we strolled over to could watch the boys with im the lodge and found the Night punity and a clear conscience, Riders busy piling pieces of waste lumber to be used for Sunday was Bill's 1birthday, kindling, as well as burying a and Mrs. Hancock set a dainty mountain of tin cans that had birthday cake in front of him accumulated through the years. at the head of the table. She S'Oon they spread out their had got up half an hour earlier blankets and sleeping bags be than usual to make it! There neath the pines. My wife and was a lot of banter during the I lay beside the boys under a meal, and I heard later that the myriad of stars listening to the boys threw their chief into the radio. As the full moon rose, lake fully clothed (which means piercing shafts of light stream that he was wearing his shorts) ed down through the trees on in order to commemorate the the hill ; and suddenly as it clear occasion. ed the tree-tops, .the whole scene was ba.thed in (!lear, radiant My wife had come u.p again moonlight! The mystic spell on Saturday to spend the long was broken by the 10 o'clock week-end with me and see that news, and reluctantly we left I got back to the office on Tues that world of enchantment and day, instead of . painting the made our way to the little ca'bin lodge floor, or building a new among the sumacs... chimney. The weather was Compliments of CUZNER HARDWARE CO. liMITED 521 SUSSEX* STREET Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 77 FISHER'S----. FOR THE ~~~ TAKE A BEATING ~ .tr • Here are the i ~;::...; kind of but a thorough SPORT CLOTHES a man wants . SANITONE for the ski trail and for working Cleaning out-of-doors. We have enough will give them different types of jackets to longer Mileage give every man what he wants for his own purpose - wind AND proofs, showerproofs and all wools rightly styled for with a water repellent complete freedom and real treatment of warmth! . . . Plus slacks and accessories to complete the "SANITEX" weatherproof outfit. See them at Fisher's. You're all set to WINDBREAKERS shove off next time ...... 5.00 to 12.50 SWEATERS ...... 5.00 to 7.50 Plain and Fancies -Also Boys' Sportswear Dept. - 8 stores. One near you 78 Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 The Western Lodge by Herbert Marshall Many of our newer members packed trails why not ski with have not yet visited the Western freedom and enjoyment on the Lodge and thereby have missed Western? one of the joys of the skiing season. A trip over the West In these days when our mem ern trail yields a variety of bership is so large, Camp For pleasures which are unique tune sometimes becomes un among the many furnished to pleasantly congested. The West ou:z: members. It is true that ern is a spacious lodge where· the trail is somewhat long as you can lunch and rest in com trails go-about three miles fort. It is unique in that it has but what are three miles on one a separate lounge room. This of our crisp, sparkling winter is not furnished with chester days? lt will. not yield the same fields but it has high backed kind' of thrills one ex:periences benches which, when placed on the SlaJom hil'l, 111ut isn't around the huge drum stove, variety still the spice of life? create such comfort that one is For those who are experts in loath to leave. This lounge downhill work a cross-country room adds greatly to sociability. hike makes a pleasant change. Around the stove conversation For those who still prefer cross soom becomes general. An ad country skiing, and there are ded pleasure is the genial care many, the Western trail offers taker, Russel Ormond, whose a trip through beautiful wood winter ambition is to wel land country with many good come skiers to the . lodge and slides. The country traversed is see that everything is ready for quite different from the rest of their enjoyment. our ski terrain. After passing Apart Keogan's clearing from all these ad the skier vantages, it is worthwhile to ventures forth into an area visit the Western which, being more remote, is Lodge because much less it has the ·finest location of all frequented. Hence in our lodges . . It rests close to the ,the silent and restful woods one edge has a feeling of a · precipitous drop and of being very, very looks out across the Ottawa far away from the urban strains val and ley and river. On a clear day the healing influence of na there is a ture is more keenly marvellous prospect. experienced. The view takes in many miles Snow conditions on the West beyond the Ottawa river and ern are usually different from long stretches up and down it. those on the other trails. When The dining tables are placed bv the much-used trails leading to the windows looking out on thfs Fortune are hard and uninvit view. The writer has not no ing, it frequently happen's that ticed hungry skiers entirely the Western is in first-rate neglecting their lunch to gaze shape. So instead of snow spellbound at the panorama, but plowing for safety on hard- the meals are slowed up. Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 79 Some have !become so e~ amoured with the advantages of Western Lodge that they go by car to Meach Lake, park at the SPECIALIZING IN foot of McCloskey's Hill and climlb by a trail made ·by Col. SMART Coleman, Bruce Lyon and Bill Am!brid'ge to Western, and on LADIES SPORTSWEAR the home trip have a magnificent down-hill run. AND APPAREL Don't miss the pleasure of a visit to the Western Lodge. PHONE 5-1015 SPORTSWEAR 134 BANK ST. WE . STRAIGHTEN AXLES, WHEELS al")d FRAMES * We will stop your car from wearing Tires, Shimmying or Wandering B€RR S€RVIC€ J. ALEX McDONALD, Prop. 137 ALBERT STREET PHONE 3-5629 Ski Terrain in The Rockies . . . make our Sports Shops headquarters for all your ski equipment, fashions and accessories. Ski jackets and slacks from our Sports Centre include Grenfell. Fairway, Storm Twill and Gelineau Gabardine. De Luxe Cable Ski Bindings Ski Boots and Poles Men's Parkas and Slacks Meet the Woods wHEN YOU SEE HIM ON FINE WORK CLOTHING OR SPORTING GAR MENTS, IT MEANS THAT THEY ARE THE BEST IN STYLE, WORKMANSHIP AND MATERIAL, - HE STANDS FOR GUARANTEED QUALITY. (jJ ECAUSE WE ARE ENGAGED IN WAR WORK, ROUGH RIDER BRAND CLOTHING IS RATIONED FOR THE DURATION - BUT HE'LL BE BACK AFTER IT'S ALL OVER. WOODS MANUFACTURING . CO., LIMITED MANUFACTURERS OF THE FAMOUS WOODS SLEEPING ROBES AND DOWN JACKETS OTTAWA, ONT. u.1s~A. OGDENSBURG, N.Y.