New Year's Eve Dance 1935

This club officially formed in 1935 shortly after the Parkdale Canoe Club changed its name to the Boulevard Canoe Club. Former paddlers recall that a splinter group led by Alan Longstaff left the Boulevard Club, taking up the former Parkdale name from an old boating shack on the lake shore. Newspaper regatta results in 1937 indicate that the club hosted their annual regatta from a new clubhouse on the Humber River. CCA minutes indicate that the club was originally called Parkdale Racing Canoe Club from 1935-37, the Parkdale Rowing & Canoe Club in 1938 and finally Parkdale-Swansea Canoe Club 1939-40, when they managed to win the national championship, much to the chagrin of the Boulevard club. Parkdale-Swansea did not regroup after WWII, having officially ceased operations by the time of the CCA AGM in May of 1941 (stated reason as "lack of quarters"). The rivalry between Parkdale-Swansea and Boulevard resulted in the mother club’s legal blocking of the name ‘Parkdale Canoe Club’ which the offshoot intended to use, along with the original club's colours and logo! Member Bill Bond was elected first rear commodore of the CCA in 1940.