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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Skiing Legends and the Laurentian Lodge Club

Skiing Legends and the Laurentian Lodge Club

McKenty, Neil
McKenty, Catharine

Paperback

CanadaSkiing

ISBN10: 1611530830
ISBN13: 9781611530834
Publisher: Light Messages
Published: Sep 3 2013
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.33 Width: 7.50 Depth: 9.25
Language: English

This book invites you to curl up beside the fire and journey to a time when Montrealers skied down Peel Street and the Laurentians were the wild west of Quebec.For two expatriate Torontonians, Neil and Catharine McKenty, this journey begins at the Laurentian Lodge Club in Shawbridge, now Prévost. There we meet skiing legends like Jackrabbit Johannsen, Harry Pangman and Barbara Kemp. With them we discover the perils of Foster's Folly, the world's fi rst ski tow, we climb Mont Tremblant in the Thirties and we ride the ski trains with their smells of wax, orange peels and cigar smoke.And we also meet those earlier legends, the larger-than-life Curé Labelle, and the tragic Viscount D'Ivry who lived in a magnifi cent chateau on the shores of Lac-Manitou. This is also the story of how the Laurentians helped Montrealers weather two World Wars and the Depression. It's a great story and the authors have told it well.

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