Wasn't expecting this on WIKIPEDIA
Jan 18, 2019 00:45:39 #
This is what all us young hockey players in Trail BC lived for! I got my chance as a goalie in 1970 with the Trail Pee Wee reps (11-12 yrs), in Victoria. The first year they had provincials, and we won it.
Great Memories
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_Smoke_Eaters_(senior)
Who said you can't go back
Let me know if you have ever heard of the Smokies!
Great Memories
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_Smoke_Eaters_(senior)
Who said you can't go back
Let me know if you have ever heard of the Smokies!
Jan 18, 2019 05:52:12 #
Swede wrote:
This is what all us young hockey players in Trail ... (show quote)
Smokies???? Were they a brand of cigarettes??
Jan 18, 2019 11:29:06 #
Purelightglow
Loc: High plains
have family there from those years, they must have watched the games.
Jan 19, 2019 09:00:12 #
Jan 19, 2019 09:16:15 #
Wicker
Loc: Montreal MILE END
The year was 1967 and North of The 49th parallel the main talked about items were, Father David William Bauer and The TRAIL SMOKE EATERS plus Montreal's EXPO 67. What a wonderful time.
Father Bauer's proposal for a national team, which would re-establish Canada in international competition, while providing its players with the opportunity to acquire an education. In 1967 the team won the Centennial Tournament in Canada and a bronze medal in the 1968 Winter Olympics at Grenoble, France.
(excerpt from)
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/father-david-william-bauer
Father Bauer's proposal for a national team, which would re-establish Canada in international competition, while providing its players with the opportunity to acquire an education. In 1967 the team won the Centennial Tournament in Canada and a bronze medal in the 1968 Winter Olympics at Grenoble, France.
(excerpt from)
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/father-david-william-bauer
Jan 19, 2019 12:49:41 #
I first heard about the Smoke Eaters when a girl from B.C. moved to our school's Grade Slx class in Ville Lasalle (a Montreal suburb) in 1952.
Jan 19, 2019 23:50:06 #
GreyOwl40
Loc: Quebec City
If you are from my generation and lived in Canada, then you heard about the Smoke Eaters!
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