Ottawa Ski Club - the Gatineau Valley Historical Society

YEAR BOOK 1951-52 5
EDITORIAL
"The best-laid plans o' mice and men gang aft agley" said Bobbie
Burns. Unfortunately, we were obliged to change our advertising
agent this year, which caused quite a disruption. The whole preparation
of the Year Book was behind schedule, and if it should be a
little off colour, please just bear the circumstances in mind. There
is also a dearth of pictures to cut costs. We expect, however, that
next year the progress made by this publication since its inception
will be resumed.
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Mr. Marshall in his usual "Message" makes some reference to the
beavers working hard "far up in the Gatineau". It is to be hoped,
as he infers, that this is a sign of an early and long winter. But as
far as we are concerned, far up in the Gatineau is the place _for·
beavers- not at Fortune Lake, where the devastating critters have
turned a gem of a lake into a mud-hole of drowned lands.
In his "Report of the Trail Riders for 1950-51" Morgan Hildebrand
tells how his QOys laboured to give us safe and smooth skiing.
He also embodied in the text what he calls a ';pome". It s