WINDING TRAILS history

During the 1960’s Winding Trails, owning its own property, started to physically take shape.

12 For this and other incidents from my life as a PhD student, see ‘Moments in the Making of a Feminist Historian,’ in Minds of Our Own; Inventing Feminist Scholarship and Women's Studies in Canada and Quebec, 1966–76, ed.

In 1968, Mort Dunning from Dunning Sand and Gravel started to mine gravel out of Poplar Swamp which sat at the southern boundary of Winding Trails and would eventually become Dunning Lake.

J. Donald Wilson, Robert Stamp, and Philippe Audet (Scarborough, on: Prentice-Hall, 1970).

In 1973, Winding Trails began its cross country ski program with just 25 sets of skis.

Enterprising scholars presented the association's first session on women's history at that meeting – a stimulating and inspiring event. It was also exciting to be in attendance at the 1975 meeting in Halifax, which witnessed the founding meeting of the Canadian Committee on Women's History.

At the annual general meeting in London in 1978, the officers, including the vice-president, who would become president of the association, were still elected by those who attended, although voting by proxy was permitted.

The 1980’s was a decade of planning and slow growth.

As Donald Wright has noted, competition for the presidency had been seen as problematic for at least a decade when, in 1981, the cha Council decided that only one candidate would be nominated, then and in the future.

J. Megarry (London: Kagan, 1984); and Alison Prentice, ‘Multiple Realities: The History of Women Teachers in Canada,’ in Feminism and Education: A Canadian Perspective, ed.

At some point, a mail ballot was also introduced and, in 1987, procedures were amended again to permit additional nominations from the floor of the annual general meeting, should the need arise.24

36 See Elgqvist-Saltzman, ‘Educational Reforms – Woman's Life Patterns: A Swedish Case Study,’ Higher Education 17 (1988); Elgqvist-Saltzman, ‘Declines and Green Hills’; Elgqvist-Saltzman, ‘Gravel in the Machinery or the Hub of the Wheel?’; and Elgqvist-Saltzman, ‘Straight Roads and Winding Tracks.’

A very difficult situation developed when the association met in Quebec City in 1989.

David Keane and Colin Read (Toronto: Dundurn, 1990); Prentice, ‘Themes in the History of the Women Teachers' Association of Toronto,’ in Women's Paid and Unpaid Work, ed.

55 Prentice, ‘Scholarly Passion’; and Alison Prentice, ‘Bluestockings, Feminists, or Women Workers? A Preliminary Look at Women's Early Employment at the University of Toronto,’ Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 2 (1991).

Beverly Boutillier and Alison Prentice (Vancouver: ubc Press, 1997), 214–15.

24 See Donald Wright, The Canadian Historical Association: A History, Historical Booklet 62 (Ottawa: Canadian Historical Association, 2003), 27–8.

Ruby Heap, R.S. Gidney, and Wyn Millar (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2005). See, as well, Prentice, ‘Vivian Pound Was a Man? The Unfolding of a Research Project,’ Historical Studies in Education/Revue d'histoire de l'éducation 13, no.

Marguerite Andersen (Ottawa: Feminist History Society, 2010), 280.

In 2011, Walton and Trout Ponds were dredged and their dams rebuilt.

In 2015, Winding Trails completed a 10 Year Master Plan for Dunning Lake Beach and Picnic Area.