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St.
Rose Boating Club was
founded 1884 and enjoyed a propsperous period hosting regattas
in North Montreal. Sometime in 1882 or 1883, "a party
of young men were standing on the shore near the bridge
at Ste. Rose. One of the party challenged the others to
row across the river and back for cigars. Ste. Rose Boating
Club sprang from that incident." (Gazette, August 14,
1893) After the war, the club applied in 1920 for CCA membership
but was denied due to one of their members playing professional
hockey. The following year, after changing their name to
the St.
Rose Canoe Club, they applied for membership
again and were accepted. (as stated in the Gazette) Ste.
Rose hosted Eastern Division regattas regularly for twelve
years. The club was founded by a group of vacationers from
Montreal and was situated where the Thérèse
Casgrain Manor now stands. Their last year was 1933. A St.
Rose C4 crew were the first men to raise the John W. Black
trophy. In the early 1900s, St. Rose held joint regattas
with the Hiawatha Canoe Club (never
a CCA member club). |
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