Ottawa Ski Club - the Gatineau Valley Historical Society

YEAR BOOK 1951-52
lovely. Thert! are other ways down
for .the experts, but we did not dare
attempt them.
·Saturday evening .some splendid
skiing films were shown in Noah's
Ark. Afterwards an orchestra composed
of hotel personnel played
sna·ppy music and the guests mixed
freely in an informal dance. The
majority were Americans, and a more
friendly group I have yet 1to meet, but
there were a few Ottawa ·people too,
including Dr. Kniewass•er and Dr.
Williamson.
All day Sunday a driving snowstorm
raged, and although the visibility
wall poor most of the guests, including
ourselves,' got in a bit of
skiing. In the evening a large group
who had come from Montreal for the
day took over Noah's Ark, so Alf
~innie, the ski 1Jro -and master-of-cere·
monies, assembled us in an upstairs
lounge-room .for a showing of coloured
slides of winter Laurentian scenes and
summer shots of Perce, which were
marvellous. By the way, Alf's assistant
is Helen Layeux, an Ottawa girl
and one-time O:S.C. racer.
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The trip home on Monday was uneventful.
By this time the tempe-rature
had ·moderat-ed •to the extent of
making the road· slus.hy, but the driving
was much improved.
Many of our members take a . win·
t e·r va-ca.tion in the Laurentians every
year an1i to them this article only
brings to mind something they already
know. On the other hand,
however, perhaps {he majority have
never ·been