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FeedsFarm.com > The long slide home The toboggan is to Canadian winters what the canoe is to the summer, a humble pleasure that evokes our collective history. But it has never been granted the Olympian dignity of hockey or skating, or of European rivals such as the luge. ANTHONY REINHART quests for tobogganing's soul in a year when a snowy hill can be hard to find

The long slide home The toboggan is to Canadian winters what the canoe is to the summer, a humble pleasure that evokes our collective history. But it has never been granted the Olympian dignity of hockey or skating, or of European rivals such as the luge. ANTHONY REINHART quests for tobogganing's soul in a year when a snowy hill can be hard to find

16th Mar 2006, 02:04 GMT

The hill at Lakeside Park was a mountain to eight-year-old eyes, and it was never more majestic than when the air was cold, the snow fresh and the toboggan waxed.

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The long slide home The toboggan is to Canadian winters what the canoe is to the summer, a humble pleasure that evokes our collective history. But it has never been granted the Olympian dignity of hockey or skating, or of European rivals such as the luge. ANTHONY REINHART quests for tobogganing's soul in a year when a snowy hill can be hard to find related news: