/ sought to cultivate a yen for baseball, curling, cards, and then I pinned my hopes on homelike joys, but they were not the true decoys; And so I waged a losing fight, as can be seen on hockey night; I still bolt meals and gulp a drink in a mad rush to reach a rink. I've bunted the old Ford through drifts with angry forward-backward shifts; I've shivered in a tarpaulined truck, and perspired freely when it stuck, I froze six toes, two thumbs, an ear, waiting for buses to appear; I've landed home at streak of dawn too tired and cold to stretch or yawn. My family scold- 'We cannot sleep; there's too much noise for counting sheep'. I shout the war-cry of the rink in all my dreams, then wildly sink Back on my pillow to re-pick the latest game withMerv and Vic . 'The boards'... 'agoal'... 'assist'... 'bad spill''; at 5a.m. I'm raving still. My better-half's condemned for life to be a hockey-widow-wife; For when I get too old to be an active fan, we'll have TV. And when I pass to the unknown, you're sure to see carved on my stone: 'Although we laid him here, we think you '11 find him at the hockey rink'. Golf and Country Club In the spring of 1969, a company was formed for the purpose of building a golf course at Stanhope . This company, the Stanhope Golf and Country Club Inc ., comprised the following: ??? President, Harry MacLauchlan , Stanhope ; Vice-President, Howard Douglas , Charlotte- town; Secretary, Sterling MacKay , Charlottetown ; and Directors: Ernest Matheson , Charlottetown ; Reagh Bagnall , Charlottetown ; Robert Dawson , Crapaud ; Edward MacCallum , Brackley Point ; Bev . Simpson, York ; and Gideon MacLauchlan , West Covehead . A previous agreement had been made in 1962 to purchase 108 acres of land from Patrick and Kathleen Horgan; with additional land purchased from Joseph Horgan , Harry Lawson , Alvin MacLauchlan and Erma MacLauchlan (approximately 70 acres of additional land), this company undertook to construct a championship golf course. The architect for the course layout was C.E. Robinson Associates Ltd . of Toronto , and superintendent of construction was Doug Kirkpatrick. Work was begun in May, 1969 and completed in the spring of 1970, with the following construction firms taking part: ??? Island Exca?? vators Ltd ., Island Coastal Services Ltd ., D.B . & J. Inc ., MacKay Construction , Matheson and MacMillan Construction , Hayes Paving Co., King's County Construction , Edward MacCallum and Son Construction and H.W. MacLauchlan Ltd . During the general construction of the course, a swamp (Mont?? gomery's bog) was drained, making way for #3 and #6 tees, fairways and greens; a causeway was built connecting #14 tee with its fairway across Parson's Creek, thus creating a lake, which could be crossed 196