Front Row: Carl Sheppard, Don MacInnis. Victor MacKinnon. Joe Thompson, & Clem Campbell.

BOWLING & BASEBALL

St. Peters Bay Bowling Team, 1950/ 1951 Photo courtesy of Stuart MacEwen

Back Row: Billy O'Hanley, Victor MacKinnon, Harold MacLean, Mike Burns, Dan MacInnis, Johnny “Dough Boy" MacKinnon, and Roy MacKinnon.

Front Row: Ruben MacDonald, B.J. O'Hanley, Stuart MacEwen, Emmett Griffin, and Johnny Maclnnis.

For ten years, between 1950-1960, Stuart MacEwen had five pin bowling alleys in the basement of his house in St. Peters. Stewart recalled that people even traveled the bad roads in the spring of the year

to come and bowl:

The place would be filled. Play-offs would be on. We had different teams, which came from as far away as the Northside. The team I was on included Mosey MacInnis, Edie MacKinnon, Hubert Gallant,

Robert Rossiter, and myself, and was called the “Big Five.” (41) There were many interesting names, which included the ”Thrifty Five,"

and the “Pin Smashers." People paid fifteen cents to bowl one game, out of which the pinsetters would be paid. In the early 19605, the alleys

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