1944-1945 Year Book - the Gatineau Valley Historical Society

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t r a i I triumphs frelman s ... from . ' ski centre ... ottawa Skiing is such fun ... you arise at an unearthly hour and laugh at the biting winds and driving snow to try your skill on the hills! Twice as much fun if you know that your entire outfit is a pretty picture from head to toe .... from your gay little jockey cap to your streamlined downhill slacks. Beginners and enthusiasts alike are stemming to Freiman's for sturdy professional action togs and gay feminine after-ski fireside clothes. From the sketch you can see that our ski togs have what it takes to complete the fun .... Kingsmere cloth ski jacket.... windproof and water ~" repellent. 11.95 .... downhill slacks shown with jackets. 6.50 hit the trail to Freiman's ski centr-::;;r e. F#_ second floor. '/j-11 ... / -~ -~ .r
Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 1 -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, enlightening 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 Ambassador. 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
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