We continue our exploration of your memories of local winter carnivals of days past this week by sharing several of the fantastic recollections you sent in
Now, why is that important you may ask, considering the topic of this month’s articles?
Unfortunately, Mother Nature had other plans that year and as my own mother wrote: “That poor sculpture , we tried, the weather was too warm on Sunday and then too cold by Tuesday.” The enormous crowd that came out watched the contestants taking off from a specially constructed tower and ski hill that reader Helen Antonini wrote in to share that her “husband helped build … with the Tech High School boys.”
Thirty years later, and for a few years at the end of the 1970s, the Sudbury Winter Carnival Committee presented a winter festival dubbed Flanagan's Fair in mid-February on Minnow Lake. The ‘Flanagan’ referred to here is Thomas Flanagan. In August of 1883, he was working as a blacksmith on the expansion of the Canadian Pacific Railway’s westward line through the area and is believed to have discovered the rust-coloured material that later identified as copper sulphide.
By the early 1990s, another sports championship came to the Sudbury Region and attracted spectators from far and wide to our winter paradise. The Canadian Snowmobile Championships came to Coniston with an event that has been talked about among long-time residents even all these years after it ceased to exist.
The Winter Carnival also featured the Sudbury district's own Gertrude Desjardins and Maurice Lafrance, who were the 1958 Northern Ontario junior pairs champions and 1960 Canadian junior pair champions. They were accompanied by members of the Sudbury Figure Skating Club.
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