Swede
Loc: Trail, BC Canada
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!
Swede wrote:
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!
This is what all us young hockey players in Trail ... (
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Smokies???? Were they a brand of cigarettes??
have family there from those years, they must have watched the games.
sr71
Loc: In Col. Juan Seguin Land
Smokie mountains sure have heard of em......nice moe hills
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
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.
If you are from my generation and lived in Canada, then you heard about the Smoke Eaters!
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