It’s Wayback Wednesday, sponsored by Pharmasave Huntsville!
Lacrosse has long been part of Huntsville’s sporting history. The town’s first lacrosse club formed in the spring of 1901. According to Huntsville: With Spirit and Resolve, in 1902 town council donated 1,000 feet of hemlock plank to be used as seating at the lacrosse ground. And the sport was so popular that “special trains had to be engaged to take spectators to the club’s ‘away’ games.”
The players pictured here were the Tri-County Intermediate Champions in 1932.
Pictured are: (front from left) H. Cole, C Law, C. Huffman, E. Houser, C. Dinsmore, R. Ball, J. Gioletti, G. Millest, G. Snowden, R. Ganton; (back from left) W. N. MacDonald, H. Wilkins, S. Baker, G. Metcalfe, W.D. McCaffery, R. Higgs, S. Snowden, C. Cooper, W. Kohn, and J. Fenton (Photo courtesy of the Baker Collection, Muskoka Heritage Place).
Do you know anything about this team? Can you provide any of the players’ first names?
Last week we shared this photo:
This is Goldie and Fisher’s store. Thomas Goldie and James Fisher operated their business where Pharmasave is today (and previously Eaton’s) where they sold a variety of wares including dry goods, groceries, clothing and boots. (Photo courtesy of Janet and David Fisher via Huntsville: With Spirit and Resolve.)
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I am the grandaughter of GEORGE Snowden, and yes the other Snowden is Stan.
In the lacrosse photo, I think C. Dinsmore is Charles, who was bush boss for Bethune Pulp and Lumber for years and then worked for Muskoka Wood. G. and S. Snowden would likely be George and Stan. From reports and legend, George Snowden was a team on his own.