‘ Mu BLL Ste Andrew Stey Ottawa, Ont KAN 509 uly 1987 Dear Cousins, Althovoh the Mitchell fanily has recently ceased to oun lakeshore property at Lac Brule, brothers Bob, Bill and I continue ta oun back lots and still have fond menories of our routs in the Brule conmnity, Our parents) Allan and Hilde (Walker) Mitchell, vere long residents there and father initisted an outline history of the Lake Brule Club Now Brule newsletters fron Bruce Nartin have spurred ne into action. For the present, however, rather than tackle all of Brule’s history, I propose to linit my efforts to my mother’s ancestors and their descendants at Brule and elsewhere, Hith help fron nants relatives my parents did corpile a lot of pertinent statistics and sone stories of our predecessors, fuilding on their beginning I plan to prepare an outline history of the fanilies ‘concerned, hopefully in an anecdotal vein, Such local fanilies have sumnanes like? Srodie, Brown, Fairnany Horsrell, Johnston, Martin, Hotenzie, Hills, Moffat, Oliver, Peck, Pollock, Rae, Schlenn, Sevell, Shearer, Stevart, Walker, Hilson, etes hs you nay know, while working for Valdurn Realty Linited (1972-82) I prepared a short local history entitled Heritage Valduen, which was published in August 1981, Over the past six years T compiled an anecdotal history cof Canada’s aldect reoular regiment, the Rovel Canadian Horse Artillery. Entitled ROMA - Right of the Line. this Wi-page history is just now into a second printing, I used 3 word processor at hone and the type-setting was done directly off corputer diskettes which saved much tine and thousands of dollars. With this new project in ‘rind, T’ve bought a genealogy progran for the conputer vhich should nske compilation and charting much easier» fires suggestions, contacts ard naterial such as diaries, nenoirs, anecdotes, postcards, photographs, ete. would de nost welcone, (Naturally, any loaned naterial will be returned 3s soon as possible after uses) As well, ary vital statistics (births, marriages, death dates/places) concerning yout insediate fanily would be much appreciated, I shall be at Valdumn till the Labour Day weekend and can be contacted ati ReRs 1, Sts Faustiny JOT 260 or by telerhone (819) 224-8864, Phyl and I would like to hear fron yous Hoch cousinly lovey Daf | tebe! P.S, The family data form on the reverse indicates the sort of vasic information desired for each of your children and grandchildren.ic 2(4g, speoy mg — 491 p75meA/ as] horSULY 1987 BRULE NEWSLETTER FIFTH ISSUE Bike Roads in the Brule Area There are several enjoyable bike rides people can take in our area. The roads I suggest are paved, mostly in good condition, and most importantly the traffic is not fast and quite light. Motorists on these roads are considerate for the well being of bikers, There are two short trips, three very enjoyable medium length trips(about two hours), and two longies on: which I take a bite to eat and plan for an afternoon snooze upon return. Medium length- Val-des-Lacs: from the Calex station on 329 go west, take the fork going to Val-des Lacs(marked) then a nice downhill to lake Quenouilles followed by a scenic ride along this lake then back east by Little Lake Long to the Calex station. - a variation of this is to go left at the Val-des-Lacs fork and go as far as the top of the hill(mountain?) to Lac Carre but not down the other side as the climb is quite bad. This road is both in very good condition and very lightly used. The return trip is great because of several lone gentle run outs. - the third medium length one is to bike to Lantier when 329 is not much used(such as sunday mornings); over to Ste. Lucie and back south to Brule. At the north end of this loop an alternative is shown on the map. I prefer the northern one but it is a bit longer and involves a bit more climbing(walking for me). Long routes - go from Calex turn-off on 329 west by little Lake Long, left at Val-des-Lacs fork by childrens' camp on Lake Quenouilles,up and down to Lac Carre then north to Lac Superior(there is a nice Casavant ice cream store with clean tables on the way). When you arrive at Lac Superior turn right on the Four du Lac. It goes close to the lake most of the way and is scenic. Then home the same way. If you start feeling discouraged on the way home remember the nice long run out from Lac Car With the cool-breeze ruffling your shirt. ~. the longest trip might be called the Lac tow circuit. I prefer todo this in a clockwise direction as the hills seen to be steeper this way and done with more quickly. Proceed to Ste. Agathe, take the Tour du Lac-north side or south side whichever you choose-so south of Lake Manitou, north-to highway 117, at Lac Carre cc east and complete the cirovit via Quenovilles, Little Lake Long. Now for the short and relaxing ones. Everyone knows of the Tour av Lac at St, Agathe-you can look at the nice houses, watch the people sailing and poke arovnd the camp sround, The last one is the most laid back; you can go two abreast , wade in the nice sandy river-but-you need a car to get there. Leave your car at the entrance to the Lac Monroe side of Tremblant park(no. charge, lots of room) and bike the 11 km. to the lake where you can explore a bit before returning.a) ») JuBY_198 2 Real Estate a) This section is intented to welcome people who are visiting, renting or who recently purchased a house. b) Offers to buy or sell real estate, Welcome-:.To Jennie Strickland and Jim Logan who are renting the Martin Fieldhouse for the entire summer. = To Andrea(Martin) Code who is visiting Dot and Eric until avg. 4th, To Debbie(Doyle) and Sandy Riley who have rented Jim and Joan Stewart's house during July. - To Marc and Alexandra(Stewart} Courtois at the Johnston main house. Marc and Alex have two children; Sophie age 24 and Victoria ace 10 months. They will also be returning next year. - To Hélene Richer and Stephen Bruneau who will be staying at the other Johnston house year ‘round. - To Sue and Katie Spengler who are renting the former Dunbar house for July and August. Drew and Matthew will be coming for two weeks in Aveust-Mat for the 2nd and 3rd weeks and Drewfor the last two. To Leslie and Abe Kestenberg who will be in Jim and Joan Stewart's house during Aucust. Leslie is Jim's daughter. Baby Sarah is about eieht months old. - To Catherine and Christopher Carlisle who are tuilding on Beaulre Stream in Aveust. Daughter Melissa is a great friend of Mylene Thompson, = To Jane and Dr, Denis Leduc and their three youngsters. Charles (Shal) is, Allison and David . They have bought the Shearer big house(Ron Peck made the sign). Dorothy and Eric Martin are interested in selling some of their lard. one of the lots, which is north-west of the Lac Noire read and Toward Pallock's, is a hill which rises 60 metres(197 feet) above the lake. Much of Brvlé can be seen from the tov. Right of way to Mud Lake could te arranged, giving access to Brule by boat. This lot is 9.403 acres and could be purchased for $12 000. ‘he other lot which 1s offered lies along the road to the sovth- east of the former lot and is adjacent to it. This lot contains 18.232 acres and is priced at $7 500. Eoth of these lcts have access to the community beach at the northern end of Brule.SULY 198) el Announcements ladies Auxiliary: A new ledies auxiliary has been formed to look after the "aesthetic aspect" of the club house maintenance. Their first task this Spring was a mammoth clean up. At the same time they took an inventory of some things that needed to te done, such asi new lighting fixtures, new linoleum on the kitchen floor, and’ some new new curtains, The floor has already been sanded and refinished-Beautifvl! The auxiliary also planned a few fund raisers for this summer. As mentioned in last summer's News Letter, 1f you or anyone you know is having their kitchen re-done, the club would certainly welcome any cld cabinets. The Auxiliary is headed up by Dicksie Outerbridge and Marg Moffat. They hope that all interested will participate. A meeting is planned on the 5th of Aucust at 1:30 P.M. at the Clubhouse. Lac Brulé Portrait-198 y HST ag the siete oF ereadites on Holy Island(circa 1903-4) on the cover of the last issue of the newsletter, en updated family picture is being planned. The date, Sunday, Avaust 9th between’ Sand 10 A.M., at the club. Not everyone(all Brule residents of all generations) will te able to be present for various reasons. However, those attending could number between 150-200. A professional photographer will be hired and the photo will be taken on the verandah of the clubhouse. It could take about half an hour. We assume that there will be a reasonable demand for prints of the eroup, and a price will be set according to costs. We hove that lake residents will back this project whether or net they intend to-order eprint by planning te be “in the picture" and to talk it vp with friends and neighbors! Madeline Doyle: It was with great sorrow that the Brulé community heardof the rassing away of Madeline Doyle on the 12th of July in the Montreal General Hospital. Our feelings of sympathy go out to Jim,and te Madeline and Jim's family. Netehbourly News Congratulations to Cathy and to Cathy's twin sister Frances Duff. Frances won a music competition in Iowa in June, placing first,. and ‘s presently studying for her masters in music performance at Iowa University. She is also teaching cello and violin according to the Suzuki method. Two more people in the Pagoda photo have been identified(the photo was in Newsletter no. 4 June/87). Brodie Shearer has identified number 47 as his mother, Leah Brodie, and he says that number 45 is not his father, Jim Shearer. Also, Duff Mitchell recognized the little girl #8 as Madeline Cresswell Walker- daurhter of George P., and sister to Duff's mother Hilda (Walker) Mitchell. More on the Lake map which appeared in the third issue(Christmas 8). Concerning the two islands at~the north-east end of the Lake. The inrerSULY 1987" 4 Netehbourly News CoN island is owned by our club and the outer one by David Brown. David dourht the island to help preserve the natural appearance of the shorelain. The President's Cocktail Farty was again a ereat sucess. Organized this year by Judy Russel and Feary Payson,. the two have ideas for making At even better next year, Ninety-eizht people attended. It is a great way for people who haven't seen each other for some time to get together.. The loss this year was less than in previous years and it is expected to be self-supporting next year, Wines, both red and white were. Many thanks to Marg Moffat who has done the organizing over the past several years. Our non-seasonal population is increasing. Several families will be spending more time at the lake due to retirement. Alan Thompson was given a surprise retirement party at the Royal Montreal Golf Club on Ile Bizard in June. It was a real fun party with everyone renewing auld acquaintances. Alan gave an-excellent speech. Harry Moore is hovering arcund retirement. Thovgh Barry and Marguerite will keep their house in Calgary(where Marguerite is a well known piano teacherstwo erand pianos) they, and Barry esvecially, will spend more time at Brulé. Philip and Lucette Brown will also be retiring next year. I think this must be a very interesting couple after having lived and worked in so many places around the world. Catherine(Brown) Carlisle, their daughter, 1s building on Beaulne stream this summer. Lucette was born in Normandy and still speaks with an appealing accent. Speaking of accents, Francine Thompson,who is a francophone, speaks english with a Chicago mid-western accent. Ask her to lay it on. Hush and Prancine like Chicago very much and so does Mylene who goes to Junior High there. Hugh arrived here July 2uth and they will be here 'till Aue 18th. Like other youngsters from far away Myléne has good friends at the Lake and enjoys returning here. Since Ben Martin’s mother left for the Far West he has been prevaring his food and processing his dishes. He is learning fast-like dropped dishes don't bounce, nor do they have to be washed! A report was turned in to the Newsletter which was grossly and blatantly false. David Sewell was not the first one in the Lake this spring. The source of this information was from none other than cur self-effacing, shy summertize club minister. Appropriately enough He plunged in on Good Friday, Saturday and twice on Sunday, Seems to me some of the older euys are worried about the heat- down the road. Anyway David, next year, you show hint Martha ard Tom McKenna had an interesting time earlier this sumter hiking in the Pyrenees- on the Prench side. Dick McXenna,.who recently earned his PhD., has an appointment to Memorial University and is studying ice(bergs not cubes).IULY 1987 s Netehtourly News CONT'D. Pat and Donnie Mackenzie, back in time for the President's cocktail party,. had a great time cycling in the west of France. Georgia Pappas, 12 years old,,comes from North Delta,.3.C. and is staying with Pegry and Russ Payson, She will be at Brule until the first week of August, A most remarkable story from Vicki Barrett. Last June she set out to climb the tallest mountain in North America, Mt. McKinley. Vicki is an instructor for NOLS(National Outdoor Leadership School ). They climbed the north side which, because it is more difficult, is more isolated. From this side, the 20,320 feet of McKinley presents quite a challenge. Also the weather comes from the south. They had good weather and made smooth progress over the snow until, at 9,500 feet and almost halfway up, one of the party developeé a hernia. Even though they were carrying eighty pounds on their backs Viigki andjtwo others shared his gear and they walked bac out. The mountain is m ‘ly sng@w and ice with a few rock edges sticking out. The glaciers on whidh they climb have in places many crevasses, some of which are hidden by the ‘blowie snows At \one point the elacier is sliding down the mountain at 15 inches per day. J They\used snow shoes and then crampons. Vicki says the scénery\and tHe eve: was beautiful, and sc it must be, for next April she p: e Along with three friends there will be no students te skis shall be used instead of s. snow shoes. The level of fi hh these people can train their bodies is inpressive- pezhans\o Congratulations!!! 4 Ores 4 ft Sel secone child 0 died some years p an Olympic athelete? To Anton and Sally( Amanda Roslyn. Roslyf 1 aro. o ‘. \ # July in Toronto. tw Evans who were married To David and Jan Stewar Margery Stewart is the pleas as 2) > To Ann Hastings and John. on June 13. To Alan and Dori Thomrsc! Svorts Sports day news: ‘ Di you know that the followine res Girls' Broad Jump-ages 124.13-11'103" Boys! Broad Jump- ages 10&11- 12*2*— Girls" Hich Jump- ages 8 & 9- 310"\— 3 Boys’ High Jump - ages 6& 7 ~ 28 These and other records aust U Bruléites as possible to come out as By popular demand, the Tug of supported by prizes for all winners and a open" cate’ and Women cf stature may wish to strain ‘their Sinewsyin opposihg forces- a tradition in the making! The schedule for Sports Day 1987 (A 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM - Morning Races gust 15) will tke:JOLY1987 6 42:30 PM - 1:30 PM - Lunch and Baseball 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM - Tug of War, Mini Marathon, Relay Race We hope crowds of adults will join us for the entire day- lunch and Tug of War especially! P.S. Does anyone have a $0' sisal rope one inch in diameter to be used for the Tug of War? = Please contact Tony Layton at 326-0308 A Fun Day For Mixed Doubles 1987 Table mats for places at the table, napkins decorated with a tennis motif, wine kept chilled in coolers, and some special dishes amounted to icing on the cake at this year's mixed doubles tennis day, July 18. Most of the 30-odd who took part in the morning- only event gathered on the club veranda for lunch and a pleasant set together. ‘The format changed slightly from past years in that all the tennis was completed in the sorning. As the four courts each had their own winners, no play-offs were held. Evidently the arrangement met with approval as nany of the players claimed the day to be one of the best we have ever held. Thirty-one people participated; 16 men and 15 women, and five courts were used. On each, vartners and opponents changed after each match and everyone was supposed to play four times. The man and woman with most games won for the day received a can of new balls at the lunch presentations. The lucky winrers were: Club Court #1 - Gail Gorman & Ron Peck Club Court #2 - Pegey Payson & Olivier LeTousse Margery Stewart's - Judy Russel & Len Barrett ‘Thompson's - Heather Hodgson & Russ Payson Age isements ‘The following is from Jennie Strickland who works in Ottawa at Prospero Books. Jennie specializésin obtaining difficult-to-find inslish language books from anywhere. Most Canadian bookstores only order to7ks with specific Canadian rights but Prospero's range 1s much wider. ‘The average order time is a month, wonth-ané-a-half, bvt the process often takes longer; so if folks want a book for a specific occasion it's ood to order well in advance. Jennie needs an exact title or a full author'sname to go on- preferably toth. There 1s no surchage for special orders and only a 70¢ charge for mailing within the area. You can leave your order with me to the end of August or write to Jennie care of: Prospero Books, 128 Bank St. Cttawa, Z1P 5X6 Annual General Meeting ‘The anrual general meeting was very well attended. The most discussed topic was the work of the hishway 329 comiittee. We wish to convince the government that it is unwise to leave the highway in its present location and that small step-by-step improvements will make it increasingly difficult to move, We are using two arguments, One is to present the covernment with well thovsht out alternate routes and the other is to point out the serious environmental impact a larger highway would have on the lake. Qpinions and Options - Nary a Word.