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Jim Riddell’s Sports Talk with Area Seniors

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Art Buckland – Sports and Education

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rt Buckland was born in 1934 Art recalls that “there wasn’t a lot would learn dyeing, weaving, knitting,
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Ain Maisonneuve, a section of kicking involved, - but it worked. and everything about the textile
of Montreal that Art described as There were three or four teams made industry. Art played on the basketball,
“being the Harlem of Canada at the up of youths from the surrounding area table tennis, and hockey teams at
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time”. His long involvement in sports that would come to play us”. Sheek the college, mentioning that each
began in 1944 at the Montreal East Island was lost to the flooding of the basketball player was responsible for
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boys’ club where he played peewee Seaway, but part is still visible from making his own uniform. Graduating
hockey and boxed. Art’s competitive the shore as well as from Barnhart in 1956 as a Textile Technologist,
boxing career was a short one – he Island on the NY state side. Due to the Art returned to Cornwall spending
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was scheduled to fight in the Golden surrounding water and its proximity to the next four years being employed
Gloves novice division but suffered the Long Sault Rapids, Sheek Island by Courtaulds Canada Inc. In
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a broken nose while training and was had an additional three weeks of frost 1956-57 Art played football for the
forced to withdraw. free weather in both spring and fall. Sherbrooke Athletics, a team which
The Buckland family then moved Art mentioned that those conditions played in the Quebec Rugby Football
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to Sheek Island, which was located would be ideal for a vineyard. In Union (QRBU). Being from Ontario,
directly east of the Long Sault Rapids 1946-47 Art played hockey for Art was considered an “import” and
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and south of County Rd 15 (Avonmore Central Park in Cornwall’s OCOT was paid $10 per game. In 1958 the
Rd.). There were twelve families who (Our Citizens of Tomorrow) League, Cornwall Emards entered the QRFU
were permanent residents of Sheek which was comprised of teams from and Art joined the team as a defensive
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Island, but with its many cottages various parts of the city. The Central halfback. The Emards made it to the
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those numbers climbed to about one Park Jerseys cost each player eighty- league finals, losing to the Verdun

hundred during the summer months. five cents which Art recalled were Shamcats in the championship game.
No one owned a football so the boys paid for in four or five installments. Softball was a popular sport in
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had to improvise; - they got a feed bag In 1953 Art was off to Hamilton on a Photo Submitted Cornwall at that time, having three
from Wilfred Raymond’s farm and scholarship to the Provincial Institute leagues each made up of nine or ten
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wrapped it in binder twine, calling of Textiles (now Mohawk College). teams. Art wore many hats in the
the game “Sheek Island Football”. During the three year program students Continued on page 17

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