CHAPLEAU WINTER CARNIVAL IN 1930s MEANT DRESSING FOR BEAUTY AND COMFORT

Jimmy Purich leads the 1938 Chapleau Winter Carnival Parade over the old horsehoe bridge from the CPR station to the Ice Palace in downtown Chapleau

Here are moments from the 1938 and 1939 carnivals plus a curling championship photo.

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It looks like everyone in Chapleau is in the 1938 Carnival Parade. This is Chapleau's second winter carnival

Another view of the huge numbers out for winter carnival. These first three photos provided by Elwood Glabb

Not  quite a winter carnival photo but a great shot of four of Chapleau's very good curlers in 1940

Dressed for beauty and comfort at the Chapleau Winter Carnival

C.J McGregor, 1938 Carnival King surrounded by "Bevy of Snow Queens"

The 1939 Chapleau Winter Carnival King Dan Jessup seems a bit puzzled.

Down the bridge comes the parade at the 1938 Chapleau Winter Carnival

Special thanks to Doug Greig, Chapleau councillor, for his assistance.

Chapleau in the Fifties - A trip down Memory Lane

In response to requests for larger images of the views of Chapleau in the late Fifties to better enable folks to take a trip down memory lane, here they are. Simply click on them to enlarge the view and start the journey.

Enjoy your trip and please feel free to email me at mj.morris@live.ca to share your journey.

Thanks to David McMillan for providing the postcards from Chapleau then. David died earlier in 2012.

Ian Macdonald noted about the postcards

 "It points out the enormous value of post cards in providing a historic profile of places. You'll notice in Vince Crichton's website at http://www.chapleau.com/  (click on Chapleau history) that much of early Chapleau was recorded with postcards. This, of course, is because it took a while for camera ownership to become commonplace and not everyone owned one. The technical photographic quality of post cards also tends to be quite high as evidenced by David's aerial images of Chapleau."