Reipas Athletic Club

The Reipas Athletic Club was a Finnish-Canadian athletic club in the Thunder Bay area, founded in 1955 and disbanded in 2011; its records are held by the Lakehead University Archives.^[1]

Reipas hosted the Canadian cross-country ski championships at Intola in 1960 and at Boulevard Lake in 1965.^[2] It developed the Tapiola trail complex off Government Road and held the Tapiola Invitational race.^[3]

Besides Tapiola, Reipas held many races on trails at Centennial Park; Bayview Magazine credits the club with part of the 1960s rise of cross-country skiing in the area.^[2]

References

↑ "Athletic Clubs" (Nahjus, Reipas and Nousu athletic club records). Lakehead University Archives.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Imrie, Diane. "High flying". Bayview Magazine, November 2017.
↑ Puumala, Lana. Themes on Finnish Settlement in the Thunder Bay Area (MA thesis, Lakehead University, c. 2004).

[lu_clubs-1] "Athletic Clubs" (Nahjus, Reipas and Nousu athletic club records). Lakehead University Archives.

[bayview2017-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Imrie, Diane. "High flying". Bayview Magazine, November 2017.

[lu_thesis-3] Puumala, Lana. Themes on Finnish Settlement in the Thunder Bay Area (MA thesis, Lakehead University, c. 2004).

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