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SUMMER DIVERSION— LAW AND LABOUR 

 —PATRICK O'HARA AND SI BOOTH 



Tennis and dancing were the favourite forms of 

 diversion in the historic village of Fort Qu'Appelle, 

 vi^hich since the coming of the Grand Trunk 

 Pacific Railvi^ay has developed the plain and useful 

 features of a town without losing any of the 

 attraction of its exquisite environment which 

 blesses the trail of the Qu'Appelle valley all the 

 way. 



One cannot dance through the summer months 

 even in the cool region of the Qu'Appelle lakes ; 

 but the tennis club of Fort Qu'Appelle has all the 

 distinction of tradition defended by the force of 

 exclusion. At one time, to be known as a member 

 of the club gave much the same cachet in the district 

 as presentation at Court during the Victorian era. 

 Also, in common with many of the great persons of 

 the Victorian era, face value went for little. None 

 would guess from a glance at the club enclosure 

 with its distinctly primitive pavilion the important 

 part it played in the creation and preservation of a 

 social atmosphere in the little village that grew 

 round the Hudson Bay fort in the centre of the 

 valley wherein the Indians love to dwell. 



On Saturday afternoons the members of the club 



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