Trinity College School - Record Yearbook (Port Hope, Ontario Canada)

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TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD. 2l fire 2 or even 3 rounds of 5 shots each in one day. At the time this concession was made, one consequence was not foreseen, viz., that an undue advantage was given to those behind hand in their rounds, since-once their eye was in-they could fire ten or fifteen shots in succession instead of being limited to 5. Nearly 5o entered the contest and more than half of these finished. The scoring was not very high, but that was due to a much smaller target than usual being employed 5 in IQO8 the bull's eye had a diameter of 125 inches and would have covered the entire surface of this year's bull and inner combined g the bull's eye itself this year was only 21-32 of an inch in diameter. The score was as follows :--1 Taylor 148, 2 Rhodes 145, 3 Ings 1 18, 4 G. S. Tucker 104, 5 J. A. Dennistoun 104, 6 J. B. Waller roz. 1 Che Summer Tboltbape. N. B.-A young man who has had experience in foreign travel wishes to take charge of a small party of boys whose parents may wish them to travel in England or on the Continent during the coming summer. For particulars apply to the Head Master. QRIIIDIIIQ- O parents intending to let their boys camp out this summer we can heartily recommend The Kagawong Camp on Manitoulin Island, Lake Huron. This camp is in charge of the Gymnastic director of St. Andrew's College, Toronto, and one of his assistants is McQueen, our own Gymnasium instructor. Any camp numbering among its assistants as good a man as Mac must be one of the best. This plan of having a responsible and competent adult in charge of a boys' camp has become very popular in recent years, and it is an admirable thing, especially for boys between the ages, say, of I2 and 16. Not only do they get all the good out of 6 or 8 weeks in the backwoods, but they learn to do for themselves, to use an axe, light a fire, cook a meal or cater for a crowd. And these are accomplishments quite as well worth the having as cube roots or Greek particles. They learn, also, to be- come expert in a canoe-or out of it, for swimming is taught as well as practiced in most of these boys' camps. The camp on Manitoulin Island we are sure will be a suc- cess, for McQueen besides being a thoroughly likable fellow is absolutely reliable. There is also a fine camp in the Temagami district managed by Mr. Cochrane of Up- per Canada College. As we said before this sort of camp is becoming very popular. Two summers ago we met with a jolly and prosperous crowd of schoolboy campers from the United States who had set up their tents in Algonquin Park 5 sun-browned and hard as nails they looked to be enjoying Kas indeed they werel ideal conditions. In the halcyon days of a Canadian summer, camping in the woods is an idyllic life.

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20 J. W. Duggan. . . .. F. G. Delafosse. Total ....... J. Mackenzie. . . R. F. Wyssman. ' ' Tar TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD. A. Kern.............. ..5 ...ro G. C. Campbell... .. 6 ...35 Total ..... ....zo F904'S 1 A. Campbell .... 3 3 E.M.Watts.... 4 J. Duggan ...... .. . 7 N. Robinson ...... . . 5 E. Hethrington. . . . S G. F. Hilliard ..... . . . . 6 H. G. Lockwood .... . . . 9 G. C. Campbell .... . . . . I0 Total ........ ..... 2 8 Total ........ . . . .27 IQOS-6 A. Greey ....... . .. 6 A. Campbell .... . . I A. J. johnson ..... . . . 7 E. M. Watts. . . . . . 2 W. S. Lawrence ..... . . . 8 T. Seagram. . . . . 3 H. Vernon ..... . . . 9 F. Cruthers ..... . . . . 4 C. W. Dunn .... . ..1o E. Walker .... . . 5 Total..... ...4o Total ..... ....15 1906-7 Cup Retained Qby defaultj on Lower Flat. 1907-8 F. Watts .... . . . 5 E. Ings ........ . . I R. F. Osler .... .. . 6 C. Maynard .... . . . . 2 F. Carswell .... . . . 7 E. F. Pinkham ..... . . . . 3 W. L. Taylor .... . .. 8 G. C. Campbell .... . . . . 4 H. Thompson ..... . . . 9 R. M. Haultain . . . . . . . to Total ....... ............... E Total ............. .... Q2 GHUQIIQ 5lJ0OtlllQ GOITIDCIIIIOII. N order to give the Cadets something to do this winter Captain Smart kindly offered a prize for competition in gallery shooting. In this style of shooting the ammunition has a reduced charge,calculated exactly to 1-zo of the ordinary rifle range firing. Thus at a 6o foot range in the gallery shooting the riiles are sighted as for the 400 yard range. In order to encourage competitors, considerable latitude was allowed in the time by which each man had to have his rounds fired. At the outset it was intended that each competitor should have 9 rounds of 5 shots each, not more than x round being fired in a day 5 later on those who had fallen behind in their rounds were allowed to 5 .7 4 IN 3 I .f liar!-4 l'.'. -Ldv as - l .19 V1 Hr 4 ' u 1 lvl R. .40 I .,k 1 ',. ,. w 9 v . .2-S1 1'

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--t ri -4 . .. -wry ,.jl,x I-.,l.,hy,q5H l 54 - n tn, tlt',A: .jig N 22 TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD. No doubt there are hundreds of other such summer resorts as these 3 probably most of us have in our mind's eye our own particular pet of a place that we mean to go to, if we can, when the dog-days come. liut if there is anyone who has not yet tasted the delights of camping out by the shore of some lake that nestles in the heart of the virgin forest, in his hearing we would like to say a good word for the Algonquin Park. The Algonquin National Park of Ontario is a Forest and Game Reserve forming a block about 50 miles square in the heart of the Province of Ontario. It is about zoo miles north of Toronto, and about i7o miles west of Ottawa. It is thoroughly acces- sible , the old Canada Atlantic Ry. between Parry Sound and Ottawa, now a branch of the Grand Trunk Railway, skirts its southern border. On this line lies the Algon- quin Park station at Cache Lake in the south west corner of the Park. Here are the rangers' headquarters, the residence of the Park Superintendent, and a line hotel, the Highland Inn. Though the district is, as it were, right on the railway, it is perfectly secluded. The whole area of the Park is unbroken forest, unbroken, that is by farm, clearing or high road, for it is intersected everywhere by lakes and streams, 1,200 of which are accessible from the inn 3 thus the only roads through the Park are the waterways, and the canoe is the vehicle of exploration. The trails and portages are kept in good con- dition by the government rangers, and guides for canoe trips and fishing expeditions are always procurable. Mr. Bartlett the Government superintendent, is a most oblig- ing man, and most painstaking in looking after the comfort of visitors and tourists 3 an expert woodsman himself, who was for many years with the J. R. Booth Lumbering Co., there could be no more delightful companion in the woods, as all who have had the privilege of meeting him know. The present writer visited the Park two years ago on a Natural History expedition in company with two Toronto friends. There was then no hotel in the ordinary sense, but the rangers' headquarters, under the management of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Colson were used as a boarding house for the numerous visitors and guests Qmostly Ameri- cansj. For the benefit of tourists the G. T. R. had set up a number of tents on a bluff overlooking Cache Lake. On this bluff the Colsons have now built a fine hotel, the Highland Inn, where guests, tourists and casual visitors can lind every accommo- dation. The site of this summer hotel is within a stone's throw of the Railway: it is well named the Highland Inn, for the altitude here ton the railwayj is 1,700 feet above sea-level g and a mile or two away stands a wooded cliff as nearly as possible z,ooo ft. above sea-level from whose summit a most magnificent panorama of lake and forest meets the eye. The Park is in fact a table-land and is often known as The Highlands of Ontario. Some idea of the height may be gathered from the fact that its confines embrace the headwaters of the Muskoka rivers as well as those of the Madawaska and Petewawa, tributaries of the Ottawa.. As to its climate, we can speak from experience and have nothing but praise. 'l'wo years ago we were staying on the Rideau near tmf ,C v, I i A 1 ,. .VI f t Q x lr! fi x .ill .Y Y .9 ' ' Y . f