1944-1945 Year Book - the Gatineau Valley Historical Society

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Chaudt.ere
Club
2 FLOOR SHOWS
DANCING
Aylmer Road
3-3456
NIGHTLY
DINE & DANCE
NIGHTLY
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J. P. MALONEY, Pres.
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Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45
panting and exhausted, into a
hole half a mile deep, where
there is much gnashing of the
teeth; the Willingdon, after a
pleasant and l"estful trip delivers
its passengers whole, happy
and contented, in a sunny, smiling
clearing at the foot of the
Dunlop road; the Canyon is encompassed,
tunnel like, over the
greater part of its length by two
solid walls of saplings, the Willingdon,
wide open on all sides,
gives one an impression of unlimited
freedom. The Canyon
looks down on the plain from
high vantage points, the Willingdon
looks up to the hills
from many vistas, between
ridges. And I don't know if I
would not gladly· give all your
Canyon look-outs for that glimpse
from a little valley I know of,
where the dark mass of the
mountain is suddenly revealed
at a distance. I think the view
of rising land is more impressive
t'han the view of the plain .
from a height.
This feeling of freedom which
it imparts is perhaps the chief
feature of the WiUingdo11 trail.
It is practically the only one of
our snow ways that goes through
open land, and yet land that is
well sheltered over the greater
part of its course.
The Willingdon trail now
starts from the right hand side
of the Meach Lake road, a little
before coming to the opening to
the Canyon, and about five hundred
feet from the bus stop and
the big stove in Donovan's store
at Old Chelsea. It starts out in
a north westerly direction alongside
a pleasant wooded knoll,
sheltering it from the north
wind, turns north as far as; the