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 \u201cthe wild west\u201d of Quebec.<\/p>\n
For two expatriate Torontonians, Neil and Catharine McKenty, this journey begins at the Laurentians Lodge Club in Shawbridge, now Pr\u00e9vost.\u00a0 There we meet skiing legends like \u201cJackrabbit\u201d Johannsen, Harry Pangman and Barbara Kemp.\u00a0 With them we discover the perils of \u201cFoster\u2019s Folly\u201d, the world\u2019s first 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.<\/p>\n
And we also meet those earlier legends, the large-than-life Cur\u00e9 Labelle, and the tragic Viscount D\u2019Ivry who lived in a magnificent 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\u2019s a great story and the authors have told it well.<\/p>\n
Neil McKenty is an award-winning author and a former broadcaster with CJAD radio and CFCF-television where \u201cthe lines were always blazing\u201d.\u00a0 Besides cross-country skiing, he enjoys golf, walking the streets of Montreal and reading Disk Francis.\u00a0 His wife, Catharine, was a research editor at Pace magazine in Los Angeles; a government speech-writer at Queen\u2019s Park, Toronto; a researcher at the Reader\u2019s Digest, Montreal.\u00a0 She enjoys friends, eating out on St-Denis Street and racing Neil on skis.\u00a0 This is their first bool together.<\/p>\n
Price-Pattersin Ltd.<\/p>\n
Canadian Publishers, Montreal, Canada<\/p>\n
ISBN 1-896881-21-1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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