Page 3 - PCYC 75th Anniversary Book

Foreword

The 75th anniversary of Port Credit Yacht Club provides a very special opportunity and preserve our heritage. In addition, Dave organized much of this material into
to look back in time and marvel at the rich history of our Club. Exploring our an historical text about our Club and we have been most fortunate to be able to
roots and the people and places we came from helps us understand the issues borrow extensively from Dave’s earlier works in order to produce this volume.
of the day and prepare for the future. As members of Port Credit Yacht Club, we
have much to be proud of and much to look forward to. Special thanks for our VC Planning & Marketing, Paul Fountain, who conceived of
the idea for a commemorative book and supported the project from start to finish.
This history of PCYC is really just a sampling of the boats, people, events and Thanks as well to Maureen and Doug Cameron who spent many hours writing,
places that make up our collective past. We have done our best to capture the editing and organizing the contents of this exciting 75th Anniversary Project. And,
spirit of our Club through the decades but, for every memory and story told, we of course to Ed Radonic and his team at Radonic Rodgers who transformed the
have necessarily omitted many others. Please forgive us if your favourite is not words and pictures to such a beautiful, first-class publication!
included among these pages.
I have every confidence that you will be amazed and thrilled by the stories you
This book was made possible by the far-sighted efforts of our first Club historian are about to read. Our Club members have always demonstrated an adventuring
and archivist, Dave Hunter, who has collected many historical documents and spirit, resourcefulness and determination, generosity, a passion to win, a love of
photos over the years. Much of our history might have ended up in the trash nature and the good fellowship of like-minded boaters. I hope you will enjoy learning
several decades ago had Dave not intervened at just the right moment to save more about the history of this Club as much as I have enjoyed writing about it.

Marilea McAllister
Port Club Yacht Club Historian & Archivist
Mississauga, Canada
April, 2011