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A picture is worth a ... in 1936, and then scored the Cup

winner the following year. That
system. For all of those years my year (1937) Barry was named
constant companion has been Lady Byng Trophy winner for
Lana King. She runs the game his gentlemanly play. He ended

clock and eight years ago Lana his NHL career in Montreal. For
By Thom Racine started bringing her son, Cohen, many years after his playing

to the games. I have watched days were over, he coached
him grow up and have come senior teams on Canada’s east
to learn he loves wrestling and coast, and in 1965 Marty Barry
or someone who loves old Mr. Freezies, but really likes the was inducted into the Hockey
Fpictures and the stories Boston Bruins. Co-Dawg, as I Hall of Fame. He died in 1969.
they could tell, I had to share like to call him, received a gift If nothing else, because of a
this one. Akwesasne Lacrosse last month from a man at his nice gesture from a man who

has been on my spring and church. The picture is a black and recognized a young Bruins fan
early summer calendar for over white of Marty Barry, circa early in church, my pal Co-Dawg will
twenty years. I have spent many 1930s Boston Bruins. Safe to say always know about the Hall of
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weekends in the penalty box Cohen, and even I, had not heard Fame career of Marty Barry.
at the A’nowara’ko:wa arena of Marty Barry, so I checked. 1935. He was traded to Detroit Strange what a picture can tell
on Cornwall Island, filling Barry was born in Quebec City and helped the Red Wings win — when you look deeper. See
out game sheets, and calling and scored 130 goals over six back-to-back Stanley Cups, in you at the ‘Turtle Dome’ in the
goals and penalties over the PA seasons in Boston, from 1929- which he scored in the final game spring Co-Dawg.

The Miracle Maid

But, with the men fighting overseas and dying
in droves, women took to the ice, playing
competitive full contact hockey to entertain the
masses left behind. They gave worried families
By Thom Racine a respite of sorts, a chance to take their minds
off the carnage on the battlefields of Europe,
and the best of them all was a seventeen-year-
old from Cornwall.

fter over ten years (actually many more,) I approached Albertine as a mystery that could
Amy third book is finally ready and should be be solved and was taken aback by the secrecy
available early in the new year. Twenty-five years that, 100 years later, still shrouded her life. Why
ago, I first heard the name Albertine Lapenseìe had a young girl who dazzled thousands of
and wondered why someone who had played hockey fans in Montreal, Ottawa, and here in her
women’s hockey during the Great War and who hometown, simply vanished, never to be seen
played the game at an expert level, was virtually or heard from again. Nicknamed the Miracle
unheard of. The fact Albertine was born, raised, Maid, the investigation took me to places I
schooled, and performed her hockey exploits never thought would reveal clues and hints to 100 years ago that still resonates today. It was
right here in Cornwall made me more determined her whereabouts, and what began as curiosity a wonderful case to investigate and sheds a
to find out why there was little or no history on evolved into a cold case investigation that will shining light on an important untold story, sure
this teenager from the Lorneville district of WWI keep you turning the pages to an incredible to make a mark on our sporting heritage. Watch
Cornwall. Sure, we had Newsy Lalonde in that ending. Watch for ‘The Miracle Maid’ a story for an update and release date in the January
era, and he rightfully garnered the headlines. of perseverance and survival. A story from edition of Sports Energy.