A Regional Parity Voting Paradigm Dear Editor: As our nation grew, so too did Canada’s federal and provincial political agencies. Geopolitical regions were created by corresponding agencies, with each region differentially consisting of ridings in numbers of voters, and social and economic factors. A single candidate is elected by plurality vote per riding. Votes cast for unsuccessful candidates that comprise the popular vote are of no avail. An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.1 This has produced a lack of voter representation and considerable voter dissatisfaction. Why? There is a vast chasm between wanting to do something and trying to do something and actually successfully doing it.2 We need an electoral system that better aligns seat distribution with the popular vote. Why do politicians keep avoiding to update our current electoral procedures? Simply stating one’s intentions, real or otherwise, is not the answer!3 They are the ones able to effect change to electoral legislation. Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth (Albert Einstein). Therein lies the rub.We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options.4 David Farrell, in Electoral Systems, suggests: A judgement on which electoral system is best for a given country should be made in the light of that country’s history, social composition and political structures.5 For Canadians, this begets democratic integrity, where votes represent merit within and across ridings of a region (proportional parity) and, in the same way across regions (electoral parity), thereby promoting more inclusive electoral procedures. In the Regional Parity Voting Paradigm (RPVP) described herein, a standard parity seat is determined by dividing the regional popular vote by the number of ridings. Entitlement to parity seats/ridings is then calculated on a party’s regional popular vote. Occasional harmonization of the number of parity seats with ridings will be needed, by rounding up and prioritizing left-over regional party votes. A candidate of a fledgling party or as an independent may also gain a riding in this manner. For if liberty and equality, as is thought by some, Are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost. (Aristotle) Next, listings of regional intraparty ranking of candidate voter percentages per riding are prepared, followed by between party ranking across ridings. Candidates with the best ranking across ridings will be assigned their riding according to parity seat entitlement.(In ridings where a party doesn’t field a candidate, votes may be included in the party’s regional vote). CS. Lewis David Becker John Maynard Keynes David Suzuki David M. Farrell, Electoral Systems. PALGRAVE Publishers Ltd. Implementation of an RPVP can be quite sobering for politicians and voters alike. When an elected member becomes incapacitated or deceased, a replacement shall be determined from the party’s regional list of remaining unassigned candidates. A politician who wants to switch parties will be restricted to Independent status, for obvious reasons. Finally, strategic voting will increase the vote of the gaining party. However, surprise, surprise! This will also reduce the conniving party’s popular vote! I believe that our politicians have the wherewithal and capability to successfully implement the popular vote into our electoral system. But will they? Docendo discumus (by teaching, we learn). Albert Madsen M.A, BEd Kelowna Help for homeless dog owners Dear Editor: We note that homeless dog lovers face loss of beloved dog companions with onerous R.D.C.O. dog fee requirements. [Headline 23/5/26] Our dog friendly community society, Dog Voice, is prepared to lend a helping hand . We are initiating a special fund to assist indigent dog owners with licencing authority requirements with the RDCO. We are pledging the sum of $1,000.00 for beneficial discretionary use of Dog Enforcement to avoid further hardship to the downtrodden from overly harsh bureaucratic fines and seizure. Dog Voice association expects to hold an open membership meeting to address this topic. In the meantime, those interested in working for the advancement of a dog friendly community may contact the group at 236.484.2069 Special thanks to your stalwart reporter , Ron Seymour, and others like him who continue to draw local public attention to human interest concerns. Ian Royce Sisett Kelowna End segregation in BC politics Dear Editor: This letter is in the mail to all our BC MLAs. Segregation is just another ugly form of racism, and racism promotes hatred, which begs the question, why do our WOKE politicians not stop segregating the people, instead of writing hate laws, turning us all into criminals? Eby and his supporters have built an ugly and insurmountable cultural Berlin wall segregating 5% of the people of British Columbia to award them special rights, including VETO rights to paralyze the BC economy. The ‘I saw it first’ has become the single biggest FRAUD ever perpetrated on the Canadian people, while lawyers are making millions of dollars. So-called Indigenous people (earlier arrivals) have no more rights to lands and our natural resources than the people who arrived before, during, and after their arrivals. We all have ancestors that date back thousands of years, and all have the same rights, including the right to own land and property that is an essential and basic foundation of any society. Another very important issue that does not get the attention it should have, is how little of aboriginal blood is in the veins of the indigenous people today, and how that must be reflected in all settlements. By now most of them have only about 15%, while the remaining 85% is non-aboriginal CANADIAN blood, representing all races and cultures of the world. Billions of resource royalty dollars are disbursed to the wrong people every year, denying millions of Canadians their fair share of those precious resource royalty dollars, to help pay for essential community infrastructure and services. That must stop. All settlements if any, should be pro-rated to reflect the aboriginal blood content in their veins, using DNA technologies if necessary. Why are you so readily supporting what has become extreme radical criminal activities. Andy Thomsen Kelowna The high cost of protests Dear Editor: A few days ago on the Frontier Centre for Public Policy show; a Winnipeg conservative podcast, reported that Canada’s famous Gas Buddy, a former Liberal MP, said: “ Venezuela had recently shipped 12 million Barrels of Oil to India”. Somehow or other, I would ask the BC Indian Chiefs: to take a serious look at their ‘continuous protests against stopping BC pipelines to the West Coast’. When BC taxpayers discover the high volume of oil shipped to India, by another source: India has made very clear their hopes to buy BC LNG and Crude Oil. The India market should have been BC’s priority customer, for a very long time: The Insult to Injury, in this case, the BC Chiefs DO NOT PAY TAXES, they Just Continue to Ride for Free. Something else to ask the Chiefs’; hundreds of Chiefs Pay Themselves Huge Outrageous Tax Free Salaries. Prime Minister Harper had stopped the chiefs cold. While Trudeau Junior, Canada’s village Idiot, re-opened the Money Flood Gates to the chiefs Again. Ernest Slump Canadian Army retired, Penticton The significance of attitude Dear Editor: In our backyard we have a bird nesting box attached to the trunk of a Ponderosa pine tree. The entrance was purposely made small to keep birds such as house sparrows from gaining access. A pair of Black-capped chickadees has recently taken up residence. Those cheerful little songbirds are one of our favourites. They weigh half and ounce or less and typical produce a clutch of 6 to 8 eggs. A couple days ago a naive chipmunk started climbing up the tree. It was immediately assailed by both chickadees. When the chipmunk dashed away to take refuge under a nearby rain barrel, the tiny, but fearless, chickadees landed on the ground near the barrel... and I suspect they glared menacingly at the trespasser. The chipmunk turned tail and fled. Another example of how attitude can overcome adversity. Lloyd Atkins Vernon Memorial cup memories Dear Editor: St Catharines, Ontario,1954. There was complete pandemonium. The Teepees were in the Memorial Cup race, but they had to get past four other high quality teams to reach their lofty goal. Hopes were high. After all they had the record setting Brian Cullen on a line with his brother Barry and Hugh Barlow. Defence was strong with the likes of Pierre Pilote, Elmer Vasko, Ian Cushanen and others. Marv Edwards was between the pipes and rookie Stan Mikita helped to bolster the offence. The team was piloted by the great Rudy Pilous who later became coach of the Chicago Blackhawks taking many of the graduated Teepees with him. I was a 17 year old rink rat at the time, helping to clean ice between periods with scrapers along with 23 other guys at the Garden City Arena. We were all thrilled to be a small part of the team’s success ensuring the quality of ice in the rink was pristine. The playoffs started with a tough series against the Toronto St Michaels Majors lasting eight games. Tie games were not played in overtime. “Eradicate the Irish” was the theme used by St Kitts enthusiastic fans. Then came the Toronto Marlboros with greats such as Bobby Baun and Billy Harris. Long lines of traffic festooned with logos and banners paraded along the Queen E to Toronto Maple Leaf Gardens to watch this seven game series. It was rumoured that all-time attendance records were broken for at least one of the games. This included games played by the Leafs. The Teepees then took on the Quebec Frontenacs who were disposed of in six games. There was a mini riot during this series in Quebec City in which the St. Catharines club had to be escorted into the arena by police for fear of being mobbed. The finals were held in Toronto against the Edmonton Oil Kings. They were dispatched in five games, one being a tie. The Teepees returned to St. Catharines where their bus was greeted by a huge crowd which escorted them down St. Paul Street, the main thoroughfare in an impromptu parade. I remember wearing an old Marv Edwards jersey and Edwards leaning out the window of the bus incensed that i had somehow gotten hold of it. The Memorial Cup has had many such enthusiastic welcomes, but having been a part of the scene for the 1954 cup winners is something I will never forget. John Broughton, Kelowna
A Regional Parity Voting Paradigm Dear Editor: As our nation grew, so too did Canada’s federal and provincial political agencies. Geopolitical regions were created by corresponding agencies, with each region differentially consisting of ridings in numbers of voters, and social and economic factors. A single candidate is elected by plurality vote per riding. Votes cast for unsuccessful candidates that comprise the popular vote are of no avail. An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.1 This has produced a lack of voter representation and considerable voter dissatisfaction. Why? There is a vast chasm between wanting to do something and trying to do something and actually successfully doing it.2 We need an electoral system that better aligns seat distribution with the popular vote. Why do politicians keep avoiding to update our current electoral procedures? Simply stating one’s intentions, real or otherwise, is not the answer!3 They are the ones able to effect change to electoral legislation. Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth (Albert Einstein). Therein lies the rub.We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options.4 David Farrell, in Electoral Systems, suggests: A judgement on which electoral system is best for a given country should be made in the light of that country’s history, social composition and political structures.5 For Canadians, this begets democratic integrity, where votes represent merit within and across ridings of a region (proportional parity) and, in the same way across regions (electoral parity), thereby promoting more inclusive electoral procedures. In the Regional Parity Voting Paradigm (RPVP) described herein, a standard parity seat is determined by dividing the regional popular vote by the number of ridings. Entitlement to parity seats/ridings is then calculated on a party’s regional popular vote. Occasional harmonization of the number of parity seats with ridings will be needed, by rounding up and prioritizing left-over regional party votes. A candidate of a fledgling party or as an independent may also gain a riding in this manner. For if liberty and equality, as is thought by some, Are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost. (Aristotle) Next, listings of regional intraparty ranking of candidate voter percentages per riding are prepared, followed by between party ranking across ridings. Candidates with the best ranking across ridings will be assigned their riding according to parity seat entitlement.(In ridings where a party doesn’t field a candidate, votes may be included in the party’s regional vote). CS. Lewis David Becker John Maynard Keynes David Suzuki David M. Farrell, Electoral Systems. PALGRAVE Publishers Ltd. Implementation of an RPVP can be quite sobering for politicians and voters alike. When an elected member becomes incapacitated or deceased, a replacement shall be determined from the party’s regional list of remaining unassigned candidates. A politician who wants to switch parties will be restricted to Independent status, for obvious reasons. Finally, strategic voting will increase the vote of the gaining party. However, surprise, surprise! This will also reduce the conniving party’s popular vote! I believe that our politicians have the wherewithal and capability to successfully implement the popular vote into our electoral system. But will they? Docendo discumus (by teaching, we learn). Albert Madsen M.A, BEd Kelowna Help for homeless dog owners Dear Editor: We note that homeless dog lovers face loss of beloved dog companions with onerous R.D.C.O. dog fee requirements. [Headline 23/5/26] Our dog friendly community society, Dog Voice, is prepared to lend a helping hand . We are initiating a special fund to assist indigent dog owners with licencing authority requirements with the RDCO. We are pledging the sum of $1,000.00 for beneficial discretionary use of Dog Enforcement to avoid further hardship to the downtrodden from overly harsh bureaucratic fines and seizure. Dog Voice association expects to hold an open membership meeting to address this topic. In the meantime, those interested in working for the advancement of a dog friendly community may contact the group at 236.484.2069 Special thanks to your stalwart reporter , Ron Seymour, and others like him who continue to draw local public attention to human interest concerns. Ian Royce Sisett Kelowna End segregation in BC politics Dear Editor: This letter is in the mail to all our BC MLAs. Segregation is just another ugly form of racism, and racism promotes hatred, which begs the question, why do our WOKE politicians not stop segregating the people, instead of writing hate laws, turning us all into criminals? Eby and his supporters have built an ugly and insurmountable cultural Berlin wall segregating 5% of the people of British Columbia to award them special rights, including VETO rights to paralyze the BC economy. The ‘I saw it first’ has become the single biggest FRAUD ever perpetrated on the Canadian people, while lawyers are making millions of dollars. So-called Indigenous people (earlier arrivals) have no more rights to lands and our natural resources than the people who arrived before, during, and after their arrivals. We all have ancestors that date back thousands of years, and all have the same rights, including the right to own land and property that is an essential and basic foundation of any society. Another very important issue that does not get the attention it should have, is how little of aboriginal blood is in the veins of the indigenous people today, and how that must be reflected in all settlements. By now most of them have only about 15%, while the remaining 85% is non-aboriginal CANADIAN blood, representing all races and cultures of the world. Billions of resource royalty dollars are disbursed to the wrong people every year, denying millions of Canadians their fair share of those precious resource royalty dollars, to help pay for essential community infrastructure and services. That must stop. All settlements if any, should be pro-rated to reflect the aboriginal blood content in their veins, using DNA technologies if necessary. Why are you so readily supporting what has become extreme radical criminal activities. Andy Thomsen Kelowna The high cost of protests Dear Editor: A few days ago on the Frontier Centre for Public Policy show; a Winnipeg conservative podcast, reported that Canada’s famous Gas Buddy, a former Liberal MP, said: “ Venezuela had recently shipped 12 million Barrels of Oil to India”. Somehow or other, I would ask the BC Indian Chiefs: to take a serious look at their ‘continuous protests against stopping BC pipelines to the West Coast’. When BC taxpayers discover the high volume of oil shipped to India, by another source: India has made very clear their hopes to buy BC LNG and Crude Oil. The India market should have been BC’s priority customer, for a very long time: The Insult to Injury, in this case, the BC Chiefs DO NOT PAY TAXES, they Just Continue to Ride for Free. Something else to ask the Chiefs’; hundreds of Chiefs Pay Themselves Huge Outrageous Tax Free Salaries. Prime Minister Harper had stopped the chiefs cold. While Trudeau Junior, Canada’s village Idiot, re-opened the Money Flood Gates to the chiefs Again. Ernest Slump Canadian Army retired, Penticton The significance of attitude Dear Editor: In our backyard we have a bird nesting box attached to the trunk of a Ponderosa pine tree. The entrance was purposely made small to keep birds such as house sparrows from gaining access. A pair of Black-capped chickadees has recently taken up residence. Those cheerful little songbirds are one of our favourites. They weigh half and ounce or less and typical produce a clutch of 6 to 8 eggs. A couple days ago a naive chipmunk started climbing up the tree. It was immediately assailed by both chickadees. When the chipmunk dashed away to take refuge under a nearby rain barrel, the tiny, but fearless, chickadees landed on the ground near the barrel... and I suspect they glared menacingly at the trespasser. The chipmunk turned tail and fled. Another example of how attitude can overcome adversity. Lloyd Atkins Vernon Memorial cup memories Dear Editor: St Catharines, Ontario,1954. There was complete pandemonium. The Teepees were in the Memorial Cup race, but they had to get past four other high quality teams to reach their lofty goal. Hopes were high. After all they had the record setting Brian Cullen on a line with his brother Barry and Hugh Barlow. Defence was strong with the likes of Pierre Pilote, Elmer Vasko, Ian Cushanen and others. Marv Edwards was between the pipes and rookie Stan Mikita helped to bolster the offence. The team was piloted by the great Rudy Pilous who later became coach of the Chicago Blackhawks taking many of the graduated Teepees with him. I was a 17 year old rink rat at the time, helping to clean ice between periods with scrapers along with 23 other guys at the Garden City Arena. We were all thrilled to be a small part of the team’s success ensuring the quality of ice in the rink was pristine. The playoffs started with a tough series against the Toronto St Michaels Majors lasting eight games. Tie games were not played in overtime. “Eradicate the Irish” was the theme used by St Kitts enthusiastic fans. Then came the Toronto Marlboros with greats such as Bobby Baun and Billy Harris. Long lines of traffic festooned with logos and banners paraded along the Queen E to Toronto Maple Leaf Gardens to watch this seven game series. It was rumoured that all-time attendance records were broken for at least one of the games. This included games played by the Leafs. The Teepees then took on the Quebec Frontenacs who were disposed of in six games. There was a mini riot during this series in Quebec City in which the St. Catharines club had to be escorted into the arena by police for fear of being mobbed. The finals were held in Toronto against the Edmonton Oil Kings. They were dispatched in five games, one being a tie. The Teepees returned to St. Catharines where their bus was greeted by a huge crowd which escorted them down St. Paul Street, the main thoroughfare in an impromptu parade. I remember wearing an old Marv Edwards jersey and Edwards leaning out the window of the bus incensed that i had somehow gotten hold of it. The Memorial Cup has had many such enthusiastic welcomes, but having been a part of the scene for the 1954 cup winners is something I will never forget. John Broughton, Kelowna
A Regional Parity Voting Paradigm Dear Editor: As our nation grew, so too did Canada’s federal and provincial political agencies. Geopolitical regions were created by corresponding agencies, with each region differentially consisting of ridings in numbers of voters, and social and economic factors. A single candidate is elected by plurality vote per riding.
Votes cast for unsuccessful candidates that comprise the popular vote are of no avail. An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.1 This has produced a lack of voter representation and considerable voter dissatisfaction. Why?
There is a vast chasm between wanting to do something and trying to do something and actually successfully doing it.2 We need an electoral system that better aligns seat distribution with the popular vote. Why do politicians keep avoiding to update our current electoral procedures? Simply stating one’s intentions, real or otherwise, is not the answer!3 They are the ones able to effect change to electoral legislation.
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth (Albert Einstein). Therein lies the rub.We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options.4 David Farrell, in Electoral Systems, suggests: A judgement on which electoral system is best for a given country should be made in the light of that country’s history, social composition and political structures.5 For Canadians, this begets democratic integrity, where votes represent merit within and across ridings of a region (proportional parity) and, in the same way across regions (electoral parity), thereby promoting more inclusive electoral procedures. In the Regional Parity Voting Paradigm (RPVP) described herein, a standard parity seat is determined by dividing the regional popular vote by the number of ridings.
Entitlement to parity seats/ridings is then calculated on a party’s regional popular vote. Occasional harmonization of the number of parity seats with ridings will be needed, by rounding up and prioritizing left-over regional party votes. A candidate of a fledgling party or as an independent may also gain a riding in this manner.
For if liberty and equality, as is thought by some, Are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost. (Aristotle) Next, listings of regional intraparty ranking of candidate voter percentages per riding are prepared, followed by between party ranking across ridings. Candidates with the best ranking across ridings will be assigned their riding according to parity seat entitlement.(In ridings where a party doesn’t field a candidate, votes may be included in the party’s regional vote).
CS. Lewis David Becker John Maynard Keynes David Suzuki David M. Farrell, Electoral Systems.
PALGRAVE Publishers Ltd. Implementation of an RPVP can be quite sobering for politicians and voters alike. When an elected member becomes incapacitated or deceased, a replacement shall be determined from the party’s regional list of remaining unassigned candidates.
A politician who wants to switch parties will be restricted to Independent status, for obvious reasons. Finally, strategic voting will increase the vote of the gaining party. However, surprise, surprise!
This will also reduce the conniving party’s popular vote! I believe that our politicians have the wherewithal and capability to successfully implement the popular vote into our electoral system. But will they?
Docendo discumus (by teaching, we learn). Albert Madsen M.A, BEd Kelowna Help for homeless dog owners Dear Editor: We note that homeless dog lovers face loss of beloved dog companions with onerous R.D.C.O. dog fee requirements.
[Headline 23/5/26] Our dog friendly community society, Dog Voice, is prepared to lend a helping hand . We are initiating a special fund to assist indigent dog owners with licencing authority requirements with the RDCO. We are pledging the sum of $1,000.00 for beneficial discretionary use of Dog Enforcement to avoid further hardship to the downtrodden from overly harsh bureaucratic fines and seizure.
Dog Voice association expects to hold an open membership meeting to address this topic. In the meantime, those interested in working for the advancement of a dog friendly community may contact the group at 236.484.2069 Special thanks to your stalwart reporter , Ron Seymour, and others like him who continue to draw local public attention to human interest concerns. Ian Royce Sisett Kelowna End segregation in BC politics Dear Editor: This letter is in the mail to all our BC MLAs.
Segregation is just another ugly form of racism, and racism promotes hatred, which begs the question, why do our WOKE politicians not stop segregating the people, instead of writing hate laws, turning us all into criminals? Eby and his supporters have built an ugly and insurmountable cultural Berlin wall segregating 5% of the people of British Columbia to award them special rights, including VETO rights to paralyze the BC economy. The ‘I saw it first’ has become the single biggest FRAUD ever perpetrated on the Canadian people, while lawyers are making millions of dollars.
So-called Indigenous people (earlier arrivals) have no more rights to lands and our natural resources than the people who arrived before, during, and after their arrivals. We all have ancestors that date back thousands of years, and all have the same rights, including the right to own land and property that is an essential and basic foundation of any society. Another very important issue that does not get the attention it should have, is how little of aboriginal blood is in the veins of the indigenous people today, and how that must be reflected in all settlements.
By now most of them have only about 15%, while the remaining 85% is non-aboriginal CANADIAN blood, representing all races and cultures of the world. Billions of resource royalty dollars are disbursed to the wrong people every year, denying millions of Canadians their fair share of those precious resource royalty dollars, to help pay for essential community infrastructure and services. That must stop.
All settlements if any, should be pro-rated to reflect the aboriginal blood content in their veins, using DNA technologies if necessary. Why are you so readily supporting what has become extreme radical criminal activities. Andy Thomsen Kelowna The high cost of protests Dear Editor: A few days ago on the Frontier Centre for Public Policy show; a Winnipeg conservative podcast, reported that Canada’s famous Gas Buddy, a former Liberal MP, said: “ Venezuela had recently shipped 12 million Barrels of Oil to India”.
Somehow or other, I would ask the BC Indian Chiefs: to take a serious look at their ‘continuous protests against stopping BC pipelines to the West Coast’. When BC taxpayers discover the high volume of oil shipped to India, by another source: India has made very clear their hopes to buy BC LNG and Crude Oil. The India market should have been BC’s priority customer, for a very long time: The Insult to Injury, in this case, the BC Chiefs DO NOT PAY TAXES, they Just Continue to Ride for Free.
Something else to ask the Chiefs’; hundreds of Chiefs Pay Themselves Huge Outrageous Tax Free Salaries. Prime Minister Harper had stopped the chiefs cold. While Trudeau Junior, Canada’s village Idiot, re-opened the Money Flood Gates to the chiefs Again.
Ernest Slump Canadian Army retired, Penticton The significance of attitude Dear Editor: In our backyard we have a bird nesting box attached to the trunk of a Ponderosa pine tree. The entrance was purposely made small to keep birds such as house sparrows from gaining access. A pair of Black-capped chickadees has recently taken up residence.
Those cheerful little songbirds are one of our favourites. They weigh half and ounce or less and typical produce a clutch of 6 to 8 eggs. A couple days ago a naive chipmunk started climbing up the tree.
It was immediately assailed by both chickadees. When the chipmunk dashed away to take refuge under a nearby rain barrel, the tiny, but fearless, chickadees landed on the ground near the barrel... and I suspect they glared menacingly at the trespasser.
The chipmunk turned tail and fled. Another example of how attitude can overcome adversity. Lloyd Atkins Vernon Memorial cup memories Dear Editor: St Catharines, Ontario,1954.
There was complete pandemonium. The Teepees were in the Memorial Cup race, but they had to get past four other high quality teams to reach their lofty goal. Hopes were high.
After all they had the record setting Brian Cullen on a line with his brother Barry and Hugh Barlow. Defence was strong with the likes of Pierre Pilote, Elmer Vasko, Ian Cushanen and others. Marv Edwards was between the pipes and rookie Stan Mikita helped to bolster the offence.
The team was piloted by the great Rudy Pilous who later became coach of the Chicago Blackhawks taking many of the graduated Teepees with him. I was a 17 year old rink rat at the time, helping to clean ice between periods with scrapers along with 23 other guys at the Garden City Arena. We were all thrilled to be a small part of the team’s success ensuring the quality of ice in the rink was pristine.
The playoffs started with a tough series against the Toronto St Michaels Majors lasting eight games. Tie games were not played in overtime. “Eradicate the Irish” was the theme used by St Kitts enthusiastic fans.
Then came the Toronto Marlboros with greats such as Bobby Baun and Billy Harris. Long lines of traffic festooned with logos and banners paraded along the Queen E to Toronto Maple Leaf Gardens to watch this seven game series. It was rumoured that all-time attendance records were broken for at least one of the games.
This included games played by the Leafs. The Teepees then took on the Quebec Frontenacs who were disposed of in six games. There was a mini riot during this series in Quebec City in which the St.
Catharines club had to be escorted into the arena by police for fear of being mobbed. The finals were held in Toronto against the Edmonton Oil Kings. They were dispatched in five games, one being a tie.
The Teepees returned to St. Catharines where their bus was greeted by a huge crowd which escorted them down St. Paul Street, the main thoroughfare in an impromptu parade.
I remember wearing an old Marv Edwards jersey and Edwards leaning out the window of the bus incensed that i had somehow gotten hold of it. The Memorial Cup has had many such enthusiastic welcomes, but having been a part of the scene for the 1954 cup winners is something I will never forget. John Broughton, Kelowna
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