Strathcona Heights
Strathcona Heights is the hillside above the Strathcona golf course, off Hodder Avenue in Port Arthur (now Thunder Bay). It was the home hill of the Port Arthur Ski Club from 1929 until at least 1940.
Skiing
The Port Arthur Ski Club built a log trestle jump there in 1929. Its clubhouses of 1938 and 1940 stood above the fifth hole of the golf course; the 1938 building burned on 3 December 1939.[1][2][3] The Thunder Bay Museum holds 1939 photographs of a club meet at Strathcona Heights, including two of Knute Hansen, later a co-founder of Big Thunder, jumping.[4]
See also
References
- ↑ "New Ski Club House Opened After Many Years of Effort" and "Port Arthur Ski Club Opens New Club House Tuesday". Port Arthur News-Chronicle, 5 December 1938, p. 10; clipping from the Thunder Bay Museum archives, supplied by Emma Hurley Warren (archival assistant) in an email to Michael Currie, 26 October 2026 (personal communication). Scan.
- ↑ "Fire Destroys Ski Clubhouse". Port Arthur News-Chronicle, 4 December 1939, p. 1; clipping from the Thunder Bay Museum archives, supplied by Emma Hurley Warren (archival assistant) in an email to Michael Currie, 26 October 2026 (personal communication). Scan.
- ↑ Photo, new Port Arthur Ski Club clubhouse. Port Arthur News-Chronicle, 8 January 1940, p. 9; clipping from the Thunder Bay Museum archives, supplied by Emma Hurley Warren (archival assistant) in an email to Michael Currie, 26 October 2026 (personal communication). Scan.
- ↑ Thunder Bay Museum photographs 984.53.1018.a, .e, .h and .n, "1939 meet, Strathcona Heights, Port Arthur Ski Club", supplied by Emma Hurley Warren, email to Michael Currie, 26 October 2026 (personal communication).
