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far enough back to make him want to preserve the event’s history. It’s one of the reasons he was instrumental in reviving it. His father, uncles and their friends were racers in the regatta in its 1950s heydays, when it attracted up to 10,000 spectators one year. He and a buddy were sitting in their man cave in 2006,
reminiscing – likely over a pint or two. “We were talking about the 175th
birthday of Parks
Canada in 2009 and their drive to celebrate Rideau history,” he said. By that time the regatta had been dormant for 30 years. The Rideau Ferry Yacht Club property was turned over to the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority (RVCA). Within months of the club’s status as a registered non-
profit corporation disappearing, the RVCA agreed to let them use the property for a bi-annual two-day regatta. There are wooden boats among Scott Cameron’s family
and friends that can be found from Rideau Ferry to the Muskokas. “Wooden boats and old motors is all I ever knew,” he
says, “all my family ever knew.” He inherited his father’s 1939 Jeffrey, Crow’s Nest,
named for his father’s nickname, Crow. A few years ago the bottom fell out of it, but he and family members restored it to its current beauty.
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not the type of alcoholic drink.’ MADD agrees. “In excluding spirits from grocery store sales and
from participating in the subsequent changes that will inevitably take place, Ontario will needlessly squander an industry that has generated economic activity and jobs for generations of Ontario citizens, cost the government revenue when the deficit is high, and make buying spirits more inconvenient. “Beer and wine in grocery stores may sound like a
good thing, but hurting Ontario distillers to advantage foreign beer companies is a bad idea.”
Davin de Kergommeaux is the author of Canadian
Whisky: The Portable Expert and a regular contributor to Bounder.
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