diptych # 142 / civilized ku # 2920-21 ~ Canadian sojourn
Monday, June 29, 2015 at 05:13PM 
vintage pictures ~ Kingston, Ontario CA. • click to embiggen
mural / Jayna Hefford ~ Kingston, Ontario CA. • click to embiggen
Don Cherry and the wife ~ Kingston, Ontario CA. • click to embiggen
Late Thursday evening, Hugo finagled his way, with the help of a friend's father, on to yet another summer tournament hockey team, the Syracuse Cadets. He traveled to Kingston with his friend (classmate and hockey-mate) late Thursday evening. I drove up on Friday morning, watched 2 of his games and drove back home - 4 hours each way. On Saturday, I convinced the wife to go with me back to Kingston for Hugo's Saturday evening game. We stayed over Saturday night and we (+ Hugo) spent Sunday exploring the 1000 Islands by boat. The 1000 Islands are misnamed inasmuch as the archipelago is consists of 1,864 islands which straddle the Canada-U.S. border in the Saint Lawrence River as it emerges from the northeast corner of Lake Ontario. The highlight of the boat tour was a stop over at Boldt Castle. FYI, the old time pictures were spotted at: 1. Boldt Castle, and, 2. the Kingston hockey rink. The mural features Jayna Hefford, a Kingston native and leading figure in Canadian Women's hockey. The goalie picture is of Jacques Plante, the first to wear a mask in a NHL game .... During the 1959–60 NHL season, Plante wore a goaltender mask for the first time in a regular season game. Although Plante had used his mask in practice since 1956 after missing 13 games because of sinusitis, head coach Toe Blake did not permit him to wear it during regulation play. However, on November 1, 1959, Plante's nose was broken when he was hit by a shot fired by Andy Bathgate three minutes into a game against the New York Rangers, and he was taken to the dressing room for stitches. When he returned, he was wearing the crude home-made goaltender mask that he had been using in practices. Blake was livid, but he had no other goaltender to call upon and Plante refused to return to the goal unless he wore the mask. Blake agreed on the condition that Plante discard the mask when the cut healed. The Canadiens won the game 3–1. During the following days Plante refused to discard the mask, and as the Canadiens continued to win, Blake was less vocal about it. The unbeaten streak stretched to 18 games. Plante did not wear the mask, at Blake's request, against Detroit on March 8, 1960; the Canadiens lost 3–0, and the mask returned for good the next night. ~ Wikipedia
I believe that the man on the left in the guys driving a boat picture is George Charles Boldt.
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