Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also, the Laurentian range extending from Tremblant three hours south to Montreal offers many closely connected resorts like Saint Marguerite, with a T-bar lift and the luxurious Chalet Cochaud, Saint Adole, and Saint Adole both with rope tows. None have the extensiveness of facilities or size of hills that many New England resorts possess, claim Americans...
Alfred de Marigny, acquitted by a Nassau court in 1943 of the charge of killing his wealthy father-in-law, Sir Harry Oakes, ran an ad in the Montreal Star, offering for sale: "Entire worldly possessions . . . pending departure for parts unknown...
Toronto has brawn, getting by on what one rival manager calls "bull strength and ignorance." Montreal has Maurice Richard (TIME, March 3), still probably the game's No. 1 player; Boucher's up-&-coming Rangers have speed and depth; Detroit the league's best defense. The Boston Bruins, though weak on defense, have had few goals scored against them, largely because of incomparable Frank ("Mr. Zero") Brimsek, a goalie who has the knack of always being...
Sixteen varsity skaters hit the road for Montreal and possibly their longhest hockey match last night, commencing a five-game holiday junket for 1947-48. McGill University, their Canadian opponent, considers its ice team "the most important heritage to the world of sport," and the last time the boys across the border faced an American squad, they shattered Yale's high-flying 1946-47 sextet...
...background, Canada's northern climate provides natural ice for over half the year and natural skaters from the time youthful natives are old enough to walk. The earliest hockey game on authentic historical record was played on Montreal's Victoria skating rink with two McGill students piloting the opposing teams. The present coach, popular Dave Campbell, is a heavy believer in the farm system for developing talent...