Au Naturel
The History of Nudism in Canada
James Woycke, Ph.D.
ISBN 0-9682332-3-6
The following End Notes to Au Naturel: The History of Nudism in Canada are organized in the following manner.
Articles are listed by author (public periodicals only), title, periodical title, date of publication, and page number (for magazines only; none for newspapers or newsletters).
Correspondence is cited by the organization that originally held the correspondence (eg CSA, ASA, FCN), the initials of the sender and the recipient, and the date.
Interviews are cited by the first name of the person and the location.
Please consult the list of abbreviations.
List of Abbreviations
AANR &endash; American Association for Nude Recreation (cf. ASA)AN &endash; Au Naturel (magazine of the FQN)
ANRL &endash; American Nudist Research Library (Florida)
ASA &endash; American Sunbathing Association
CNC &endash; Canadian Nudist Confederation (cf. ECSA)
CNN &endash; Canadian Nudist News (magazine of the WCSA)
CSA &endash; Canadian Sunbathing Association
CSAir &endash; Canadian Sun Air (continues Sunny Trails magazine)
ECSA &endash; Eastern Canadian Sunbathing Association
FCN &endash; Federation of Canadian Naturists
FQN &endash; Federation Québecoise de Naturisme
GN &endash; Going Natural (magazine of the FCN)
H&E &endash; Health & Efficiency (British magazine)
INF &endash; International Naturist Federation
RP &endash; Readers' Page (column in SBH)
SBH &endash; Sunbathing for Health (Canadian magazine)
SH &endash; Sunshine & Health (U.S. magazine)
ST &endash; Sunny Trails (column in SBH)
STM &endash; Sunny Trails (magazine of the CSA)
WCSA &endash; Western Canadian Sunbathing Association
WP &endash; Woman's Page (column in SBH)
Chapter One
1. Letter, SBH, March 1943, p. 1110.
2. RP, July 1956, p. 14; RP, June 1951, p. 19. See also "How I Discovered the Joys of Naturism," SH, April 1950, p. 14 (reprinted as "How I Tasted the Joys of Naturism," SBH, September 1950, p. 25.
3. RP, February 1959, p. 12; RP, March 1956, p. 21; "Prelude to Nudism?", SBH, August 1939, p. 113. Also RP, February 1956, p. 23; RP, January 1948, p. 18.
4. "Prelude to Nudism?," SBH, August 1939, p. 113; RP, February 1953, p. 15; RP, February 1956, p. 15. Also RP, May 1951, p. 18; RP, November 1956, pp. 14-15.
5. Letter, STM, June 1947, p. 2; RP, January 1954, p. 14; RP, February 1956, p. 25; RP, July 1956, pp. 14-15. Also: RP, September 1950, p. 18; RP, September 1951, p. 19.
6. RP, June 1955, p. 14; RP, December 1953, p. 29; RP, October 1950, p. 18; RP, February 1959, p. 12. See also RP, February 1952, p. 12; ibid, November 1952, p. 14; ibid, November 1955, p. 32; STM: Canadian Nudist Registry (February 1952).
7. RP, June 1956, p. 23; RP, March 1948, p. 22; Letter, STM, June 1947, p. 2; RP, February 1953, p. 14; "The World of Naturism: Nova Scotia," H&E, November 1938, p. 442; reprinted in SBH, November 1939, p. 208. Also RP, July 1953, p. 14.
8. CSA: RN-RC, 23 January 1949; RP, August 1949, p. 20. See also RP, June 1951, p. 18; ST, May 1951, p. 12; RP, September 1950. p. 18; interview--Mel (Welland, ON); interviews--Frank, Rene, and Tony (Montreal). Physical culture advertisements and pictures appeared regularly in Health & Efficiency and Sunbathing for Health. See also: "Canadian Nudist Champion," SH, October 1947, pp. 6-9; RP, September 1950. p. 18.
9. RP, SBH, April 1949, p. 18; RP, August 1950, p. 18; RP, September 1949, p. 20. Also RP, August 1949, p. 20; RP, SBH, December 1952, p. 14; "Naturism in the Snow," HE, December 1936, p. 408.
10. "What naturism has done for me," H&E, November 1938, p. 400; ibid, May 1938, p. 158 For an example of Boyce's ideas on health see his article "Back to Nature for Health," SBH, September 1939, pp. 153-154. See also "Dr. Herbert Frank Boyce" in "Families Histories" on the Big River Webpage at: <<www.net.big-river.sk.ca>>
11. RP, April 1955, p. 14; RP, January 1953, p. 28; RP, August 1950, pp. 19-20. See also: "Cruising in a British Columbia Fjord," H&E, June 1936, p. 196; "Canoeing in a Naturist's Paradise," H&E, January 1938, pp. 1-4; "Health Regained in the Canadian Wild Wood," H&E, February 1938, pp. 1-2; "Naturism gave me health at 55," HE, November 1938, p. 400; "My Naturist Holiday," SBH, February 1944, p. 312; RP, September 1947, p. 20; RP, July 1948, p. 20; CSA: DN-RC, 17 April 1949; RP, August 1958, p. 28; "Naturism and the Family," GN, Winter 1989, p. 6. On church camps see CSA: HM-WN, 16 March 1951; HM-JP, 3 April 1951.
12. RP, February 1948, p. 22; RP, September 1955, p. 13; "Indian Summer," SBH, July 1940, p. 81; RP, July 1950, p. 18.
13. Canadian Nudist registry; RP, December 1949, p. 20; RP, October 1947, p. 8.
14. RP, October 1953, p. 27; Canadian Nudist Registry; Letter, STM, September 1947, p. 4.
15. RP, September 1953, p. 24; RP, December 1950, p. 20; RP, July 1956, p. 14; "A Manitoba Naturist," SBH, August 1944, p. 125; "Touring with Nature in Charming Georgian Bay,"SH, December 1943, p. 3. Also: RP, April 1957, p. 15; RP, September 1957, p. 14; RP, July 1957, p. 14.
16. RP, September 1952, p. 14.
17. RP, December 1958, p. 12; RP, May 1951, p. 18; RP, January 1958, p. 15; RP, April 1949,p. 18. Also: ST, August 1947, p. 9; RP, July 1951, pp. 19-20; RP, October 1954, p. 15; RP, September 1955, p. 14; RP, August 1958, p. 12; "Ii y a 50 ans, on faisait du nudisme au Quebec," NdQ, 11 February 1979, pp. 12-13.
18. RP, November 1958, p. 15; RP, April 1949, p. 18; RP, November 1950, p. 18; RP, May 1957, pp. 14-15, 28; ST, August 1947, p. 10; RP, January 1958, p. 15.
19. RP, October 1947, p. 8; Canadian Nudist Registry. Also: ST, August 1947, p. 9.
20. "The Sun Air Freedom Lovers," SBH, February 1945, p. 302.
21. RP, November 1950, p. 18. Also: RP, June 1949, Canadian Nudist Registry.
22. ST, October 1947, p. 8; ST, July 1948, p. 10; Letter (Galiano Is, BC), STM, July 1948, p. 10; RP, March 1956, p. 21. Also: RP, July 1951, pp. 18-19; Canadian Nudist Registry.
23. RP, September 1949, p. 18. Also: Canadian Nudist registry; ST, October 1947, pp. 7-8.
24. RP, November 1958, p. 13; RP, December 1949, pp. 18-20. Also: RP, May 1949, p. 19; RP, May 1950, p. 20; RP, May 1953, p. 29; RP, June 1953, p. 25.
25. RP, June 1957, p. 14; RP, December 1953, p. 29. Also: RP, September 1954, p. 14.
26. RP, November 1954, p. 15. Also see RP, June 1957, p. 26. 27. RP, May 1953, p. 15. Also: RP, November 1954, p. 15.
28. RP, November 1952, p. 24; ECSA: MD-ECSA, 29 June 1970. Also: RP, May 1953, pp. 14-15; RP, June 1957, p. 26; RP, September 1954, p. 14; RP, December 1956, p. 14; RP, September 1957, p. 15; Canadian Nudist Registry_.
29. RP, December 1957, p. 25. See the listings of clubs in The Nudist, SH, and SBH, passim.
30. "Canadian Nudism History," CNN, Winter 1983-Spring 1984, p. 20; ST, January 1959, p. 8.
31. CSA: MM-RC, 2 December 1949; RP, June 1954, p. 23.
32. ST, July 1948, p. 10. RP, December 1956, p. 14; "Mag Picts Result in Charge," STM, July 1948, p. 17.
33. WP, August 1951, p. 17; RP, SBH, February 1954, p. 25. Also: "Canada Speaks," November 1947, p. 22; CSA: KL-HM, 12 April 1951; ST, July 1948, pp. 10-11; RP, September 1955, p. 29; RP, December 1957, p. 25.
34. RP, February 1958, p. 14; RP, May 1950, p. 18; RP, June 1948, p. 18. See also RP, March 1956, p. 14.
35. RP, February 1958, p. 14. Also: RP, January 1948, p. 21; ST, March 1951, p. 10; ST, May 1953, p. 8.
36. RP, September 1953, p. 15. On McLachlan see CSA: KL-GE, 24 January 1952, and his series on "Aids for the Amateur Photographer," which appeared in SBH regularly during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Advertisements for Lanza and Forbes appeared regularly. Additional information courtesy Tony Lanza, interview--Montreal.
37. RP, April 1949, p. 20; ST, July 1948, p. 10; RP, August 1951, p. 23. See also CSA: RC-MM, 5 December 1949; RP, January 1949, p. 18; RP, May 1950, p. 23; RP, December 1953, p. 14; WP, October 1950, p. 17; RP, August 1951, p. 23. On shaving see WP, August 1949, pp. 17-24.
38. CSA: Minutes of Board Meeting, 7 January 1953; Editorial Reply, RP, March 1951, p. 10; ST, July 1948, p. 11; "Our Greatest Need," STM, July 1951, p. 4; Editorial Reply, ST, May 1953, p. 10.
39. Editorial Reply, ST, May 1953, p. 10; STM: International Nudist Registry_ (1953); RP, November 1949, p.18.
40. "Canada Speaks," SH, November 1947, p. 22; Letter, STM, May 1947, p. 2; RP, November 1950, p. 19; Canadian Nudist Registry. See also "The Picture Problem," STM, April 1949, p. 17; RP, August 1951, p. 18.
41. CSA: GC-RC, 9 June 1949; RC-MM, 5 December 1949. Also GC-MM, 25 November 1949. Several pages of each issue contained ads for such publications. See CSA: Minutes of the First Convention, 18 October 1947.
42. CSA: Minutes of CSA-West Board Meeting, 15 November 1958; TGS Echo, February 1959; "Toronto Gymnosophical Society," CSAir, April 1959, p. 11. Also "Western Secretary Report," CSAir, March 1959, p. 3; CSA: JC-DS, 26 January 1959; "Sunbathing for Health Bankrupt," CSAir, February 1959, p. 3.
43. TGS Echo, April 1959, p. 3; CSA: DS-JC, 3 February 1959. Also Public Relations Director Report to CSA East Board Meeting, 27 September 1958; "Eastern Secretary Report," CSAir, June 1959, pp. 13-15.
44. Lakesun newsletter, Spring 1967. On CSA concerns with existing magazines and Customs restrictions see "Modern Sunbathing for Hygiene," CSAir, June 1960, p. 15; "Entry of Nudist Publications into Canada," CSAir, JanuaryFebruary 1962, p. 4; Maritan News, April 1962.
Chapter Two
l. "Reminiscences of Ray Connett," tape recording, WCSA Library; STM, November 1947, p. 6; Jean Howarth, "I Visited a British Columbia Nudist Colony," Liberty, August 1955, p. 30; "Ray Connett Remembers," Poplar Leaves, August 1972.
2. ST, July 1948, p. 10. "Canadian Scene," SH, April 1955, p. 12; "America Plans for Nudism," Sun Bathing Review, July-August-September 1942, pp. 28-29.
3. "British Nudism Co-operates," SH, October 1943, pp. 1213; "Canadian Nudist in Italy," Sun Bathing Review, October-November-December 1944, pp. 57-58. CSA: RC-HC, 26 July 1946; Letter, SH, June 1943, pp. 4-5.
4. CSA: RC-RN & DL, 7 January 1953.
5. Connett, "Reminiscences;" CSA: RC-HC, 26 July 1946; RC-DB, 14 September 1946.
6. ST, December 1946, p. 237.
7. ST, May 1947, pp. 10-11; ST, June 1948, p. 12; ST, May 1947, p. 11; RP, July 1948, p. 22.
8. ST, April 1947, pp. 6-7; May 1947, p. 11; Letter (Whitehorse, Yukon), STM, November-December 1950, p. 20; RP, November 1950, p. 19.
9. CSA: BE-MM, undated (December 1949); BE-RC, 26 February 1949; ST, June 1948, p. 12 See also CSA: BE-RC, 11 December 1948; BE-DN, 29 April 1949; RS-CSA, 20 September 1949.
10. Interview--Myles (Bristol, N.B.); Marcus Meed, Of Interest to Recall (Bristol, 1984).
11. ST, May 1947, p. 12; CSA: MM-RN, 15 October 1949. Also ST, February 1950, p. 10.
12. CSA: MM-RC, 10 April 1956. "Marcus Meed Critically Ill," STM, September 1950, p. 1; CSA: MM-RC, 19 September 1955. For club reports see "Atlantic Recreational Club," STM, July 1955, pp. 11-12; August 1955, p. 10; November 1955, pp. 21, 23.
13. Maritan News, November 1959. For additional reports see CSA: MM-RC, 10 April 1956; MM-RC, 22 May 1956; "The Maritans," STM, June 1956, p. 27.
14. ECSA: RA-ECSA, 21 November 1968; BC-RA, 4 December 1968; "Maritime Dilemma," GN, Summer 1987, p. 10. There is now an attempt to form a successor to the Maritans in New Brunswick: "Land ahoy in New Brunswick," GN, Summer 1998, p. 23.
15. CSA: RC-HC, 31 December 1946; "Canada Speaks," SH, August 1947, p. 18.
16. CSA: RC-RN & DL, 7 January 1953; ST, May 1948, p. 6.
17. STM, July 1947, p. 1; "For the Record," CSAir, May 1960, pp. 5, 12-13; CSA: RC-Dear Sun Friends, 25 July 1956; HM-BS & JS, 2 May 1951; RC-MW, 11 June 1956; Canadian Nudist Registry; RC-U.S. Postal Inspector, Elgin, Illinois, 7 March 1952.
18. ST, May 1947, pp. 10-12.
19. Supreme Court of Canada, "Regina v Verrette," 85 Dominion Law Reports (3d), especially pages 4-6, 15-16; ST, May 1948, pp. 7-8. Also ST, February 1951, pp. 8-9.
20. ST, September 1947, p. 8; ST, July 1957, p. 14.
21. ST, July 1957, p. 14; ST, September 1947, p. 8.
22. WP, August 1951, p. 20. ST, September 1947, p. 6; ST, May-June 1952, p. 9.
23. "Message from Canada," SH, March 1950, p. 14; Letter, STM, May 1947, p. 2; Sunny Gatherings, July 1961; CSA: GC-BB & FB, 2 June 1949.
24. ECSA: NR--ECSA, 26 June 1970.
25. RP, September 1954, p. 28; RP, June 1953, p. 25; ECSA: JC--ECSA, 28 April 1969; ST, May 1948, p. 8; "Message from Canada," SH, March 1950, p.14; STM, May 1947; CSA: GC-RB, 2 June 1949.
26. Pete, quoted in Eric Francis, "Grin and Bare it! ," Ottawa Sunday Sun, 8 August 1988; WP, June 1957, p. 16; WP, October 1958, p. 7.
27. ST, June 1947, pp. 7-8; ST, March 1948, p. 10.
28. ST, August 1948, pp. 10-11; ECSA: "Single Men" (flier); RP, May 1949, p. 20. See also ST, June 1947, p. 8; ST, April 1951, pp. 8-9; "Problem: Single Males," Modern Sunbathing, June 1949, reprinted in GN, Winter 1990, p. 6.
29. ST, July 1958, p. 9. ST, August 1951, p. 8; RP, July 1958, pp. 8-9; "Tolerance," GN, Winter 1991, p. 11; CSA: BB-Norhaven Members, 10 May 1951.
30. ST, August 1951, p. 8; ST, July 1958, pp. 8-9; "Tolerance," GN, Winter 1991, p. 11; CSA: BB-Norhaven Members, 10 May 1951.
31. RP, October 1947, p. 19-22.
32. ST, March 1948, p. 10; ST, August 1949, p. 9.
33. ST, June 1955, p. 8; RP, May 1948, p. 22; "Do singles really want nudism?", ST, December 1948, pp. 10-12; "The Single Fraternity Makes Strides," ST, July 1950, p. 10.
34. Editorial reply, RP, September 1950, p. 18. Also CSA: RB-Wally, 13 August 1952.
35. Sun Valley News, February 1962; STC: Minutes of Board Meeting, 3 March 1959; STC: Minutes of Board Meeting, 12 June 1965; Sunny gatherings, July 1964; Jack Scott column, Vancouver Sun, 18 July 1964.
36. ST, August 1949, pp. 11-12; CSA: BB-Norhaven Members, 10 May 1951; RC-MS, 11 January 1956.
37. CSA: BB-To All Members [Norhaven], 10 May 1951; ST, July 1958, pp. 8-9; "Tolerance Towards Singles," GN, Winter 1991, p. 11.
38. "To start a naturist club," GN, Summer 1991, p. 12; CSA: HM-KL, 27 April 1951; Echo, February 1959; "President's Column," CSAir, May 1963, pp. 6-7; ECSA: BC-JS, undated (1962).
39. ST, February 1951, p. 9; CSA: HM-RN, 23 April 1951. Also: WP, September 1951, p. 21; WP, March 1955, p. 17; interview--Ike (Glenburnie, ON).
40. ST, October 1947, p. 12.
41. Editorial Reply, RP, June 1956, p. 15. "Norhaven," STM, May 1955, p. 14; "My Adventure in a Nudist Camp," SBH, February 1958, pp. 24, 35; Sun Valley News, January 1958; "Club of the Month: Sunny Acres," CSAir, June-July 1962, pp. 3-4; Keith Knight, "The Volunteer Firefighter," Ridgetown Dominion, 28 December 1994, reprinted in GN, Summer 1995, p. 18; Sunny Gatherings, June 1970; "Sunny Trails Club," CSAir, July-August 1959, pp. 5-6.
42. Interview--Rosie (Glenburnie, ON).
43. Toronto Telegram, 30 January 1951, reprinted in STM, May 1951, p. 11; interview--Doug (Barrie, ON).
44. ST, February 1953, pp. 8-10; CSA: BB-To All Members, 10 May 1951.
45. ST, February 1953, pp. 9-10. 46. ST, October 1952, pp. 8-11.
47. ST, October 1952, pp. 8-10; "To Start a Naturist Club," GN, Winter 1992, pp. 14-16; WP, July 1950, p. 17; "The Maritans," CSAir, July 1959, p. 11; ECSA: BC-JS, 30 September 1965.
48. Letter, YMCA (London) Volleyball Team-Glen Echo Volleyball Team, 8 September 1963; Maritan News, April 1962. Also ST, October 1947, p. 13; Link, February 1949.
49. ST, passim; and club newsletters.
50. Claire Lamarche, "Textile ou Nudiste?," Le Lundi, September 1993, p. 15; WBPS Newsletter, No. 21, 1993.
51. Quotes from Andre Poulin, "Des milliers de Quebecois choisissent de vivre nus," Le Droit, 4 August 1988; and Eric Francis, "Grin and bare It," Ottawa Sunday Sun, 8 August 1993; the "Hiawatha" ode to barbecues is from Don in the TGS Echo, July 1960.
Chapter Three
1. "Pac Sun Club," STM, June 1953, pp. 8-9. "A Camp Twenty Years Ago," RP, September 1952, p. 15; "Vacationing on Vancouver island," SBH, November 1940, p. 187; RP, September 1950, pp. 10-12; Interview--Joan (Vancouver); "Alberni Group," STM, August-September 1952, p. 10.
2. "A Voice from Canada," SH, February 1941, p. 2. "Good News from Victoria, B.C.," SH, April 1942, p. 3; "Vacationing on Vancouver Island," SBH, November 1940, p. 187; "Up in Victoria, B.C.," SH, August 1944, pp. 3-4; "Naturists at Play," SBH, March 1943, pp. 1110-11.
3. CSA: BG-RC, 13 November 1949. "Naturists at Play," SBH, March 1943, pp. 1110-11; "Happy Naturists: Health & Hygiene Sun Shine Camp," SBH, June 1944, pp. 54-55; "From Victoria, B.C.," SH, October 1945, p. 29; "Victoria," STM, April 1949, p. 16; ST, January 1952, pp. 8-10; ST, January 1959, p. 8; CSA: BG-RC, 28 February 1949; DN-BG, 6 March 1949; CSA: RC-BG, 6 November 1949; interview--Mike (Surrey).
4. "Another Club for Victoria?", STM, December 1951, p. 11; "Report from Albert Young, Victoria," STM, April 1952, p.12; "More from Victoria," STM, November 1952, p. 13; Victoria Singles," STM, August-September, 1952, p. 15.
5. "Pac Sun Club," STM, May 1955, pp. 5-6. "Pac Sun Club," STM, June 1953, pp. 8-9; "Victoria," STM, July 1955, pp. 5-6; CSA: RC-NP, 20 November 1955.
6. "Pac Sun Club," STM, May 1955, p. 5; "Sol Sante Club," STM, February 1956, pp. 12-13; "Totem Dedicated at High Noon," American Nudist Leader, November 1963, pp. 20-22; "The Year of the Totem," CSAir, November 1963, pp. 2, 8; "The Year of the Totem: WCSA Convention," Sundial, November 1963, pp. 14-15.
7. ST, October 1956, pp. 8-10; ST, June 1957, pp. 30-31.
8. CSA-West: DR-RC, 18 April 1958, and RC-CSA Officers, 6 May 1958, both attached to DR-OJ, 3 June 1958. Semipublic accounts (written by Connett) appeared in his magazine. See "CSA Clears Sol Sante," STM, June 1958, p. 3; "Sol Sante Club," CSAir, March 1959, pp. 6-7, 12.
9. Sunshine Sketches, July 1959. Also Sunshine Sketches, October 1959; "Sol Sante Club," CSAir, April-May 1959, p. 5; "Sol Sante Club," CSAir, March 1960, p. 16; "Sol Sante Club," May 1961, p. 5.
10. Sunshine Sketches, February 1959; "Victoria Sunbathing Club," STM, August 1958, p. 7; ibid, CSAir, March 1959, p. 7; ibid, June 1959, p. 10; ibid, February 1960, p. 4; "Victoria Sunbathing Club Triumphs Again," CSAir, June 1959, p. 10.
11. WCSA : ON-CC, 31 January 1967; ED-CR, 31 October 1966; RFON, 4 October 1967; ED-ON, 5 October 1967; "The westernmost naturist club in Canada," GN, Spring 2001, p. 7.
12. "Nanaimo Tans," CNN, July 1971; "Nanaimo Tans," CNN, November-December 1971; "Nanaimo Tans Club Report," WCSA Newsletter, (1974); "Nanaimo Tans," WCSA Newsletter, Spring 1970; Sunny Gatherings, Fall 1970; interview--Mike (Surrey BC).
13. "Arbutus Park," CNN, June 1973; "Arbutus Park Travel Club," CNN, June 1993; "Tsolumaires," CNN, SeptemberNovember 1972.
14. "Van Tan Recall," Van Tan Call (1989); Connett, "Reminiscences;" ST, June 1956, pp. 8-10; "An Australian in Canada," SH, August 1943, pp. 5-6; interview--Dick (Vancouver).
15. "Van Tan Recall;" Connett, "Canada Speaks," SH, March 1948, p. 22; Connett, "Reminiscences." Also "Parade of Camps: The Van Tan Club," SBH, September 1952, pp. 12-13; interview--Dick (Vancouver).
16. "August Meeting," Van Tan Call, September 1947. Van Tan Call, November 1947; VTC: "City Nudists Incorporated for Camp at Lynn Valley," Vancouver Sun (undated press clipping).
17. "Van Tan Recall;" Connett, "Reminiscences." CSA: RC-MW, 30 December 1958; "Van Tan Club," CSAir, April-May 1959, pp. 5-7.
18. CSA: RC-DB, 15 July 1946; ST, September 1951, pp. 8-10.
19. "A Visit to the Police," STM, October 1952, pp. 5-8.
20. ST, April 1951, p. 9; CSA: RC-MM (Note on RC-BG, 6 November 1949). Also "Van Tan Recall'; Van Tan Call, October 1947; December 1947; "Van Tans," STM, April 1949, p. 12.
21. Van Tan Call, June 1947; August 1947; December 1947. Also ST, July 1952, pp. 8-9; "The Van Tans," SBH, September 1952, pp. 12-13; "Van Tan Recall." Also: "Van Tan Club," STM, April 1949, p. 12.
22. "Shall We Go to Seed?", Van Tan Call, July 1947; "Bluff Developement," Van Tan Call, March 1948.
23. Van Tan Call, September-October-November 1948; Van Tan Call, June 1947. Also: Van Tan Call, August 1947; September 1947; November 1947; "Van Tan Club," STM, October 1951, pp. 10-11; ibid, October 1951, pp. 10-11; ibid, August-September 1952, p. 11; ibid, October 1952, pp. 10-11; ibid, July 1955, p. 6; ST, January 1959, p. 8; "Van Tan Recall."
24. "Van Tan Club," STM, October 1957, pp. 19-21. Van Tan Call, October 1947; "Pro-Rec," ibid, November 1947; "Van Tan Club," CSAir, January 1960, pp. 5-6; "Van Tans," CNN, June 1985.
25. "Van Tan Club," STM, October 1951, p. 11; ibid, August 1954, pp. 11-12; ibid, June 1956, p. 7; ibid, October 1957, pp. 19-21; "Van Tan Club," CSAir, January 1960.
26. "Van Tan news," WCSA Newsletter, Spring 1970; Michael Becker, "N. Van nudist camp celebrates 50 years," North Shore News, 7 June 1989; "Canada's Oldest Nudist Group," Times of North & West Vancouver, 9 July 1975; Karen Gram, "Nudists drawn to hilltop club in all seasons," Vancouver Sun, 14 June 1989.
27. "Border Tans," STM, July 1948, p. 20; "Friends one and all," STM, April 1949, p. 12; "Border Tans," STM, MarchApril 1951, pp. 9-10; ibid, STM, August 1954, p. 12; ibid, STM, June 1956, pp. 9-11; Van Tan Call, January 1948.
28. "Fraser Valley Police Co-operate with Border Tans," STM, Summer 1949, p. 16; ST, September 1951, pp. 9-10.
29. "The Border Tans," Suntan, August-September 1952, pp. 1820; Sunny gatherings, October 1952; "The Border Tans," Suntan, May 1953, pp. 10-11; "Border Tans," STM, August 1954, p. 12; ibid, June 1956, pp. 9-10; ibid, December 1956; CSA: SW-AT, 26 April 1955; ST, January 1957, p. 9; Connett, "Reminiscences."
30. "Your Secretary Reports," STM, March-April 1950, pp. 3-4; ST, May 1950, p. 10.
31. "Health and Sun Society," STM, September 1950, p. 10; ibid, October 1950, p. 12.
32. "Tebbutts' Nature Park," SH, May-June 1952, p. 12; "Tebbutt Nature Park," STM, May 1951, p. 9; ibid, October 1951, p. 12.
33. "The Bare Beginnings of Sunny Trails," Sunny Gatherings, October 1973; "The Story of Sunny Trails," American Nudist Leader, Vol. 4, No. 3 (1954), pp. 12-13; Connett, "Reminiscences."
34. "Bare Beginnings of Sunny Trails," Sunny Gatherings, November 1973; "Bare Beginnings," February 1974; ST, January 1953, pp. 8-9; ST, August 1953, p. 8; ST, September 1953, pp. 8-10; "Nudist Land Purchase Gets Good Publicity," STM, May 1953, pp. 4-7, 16; "Early Days at Sunny Trails," May 1962, pp. 10-13; Connett, "Reminiscences."
35. ST, January 1953, p. 9. ST, October 1953, p. 9; "New Light in Canada," SH, November 1953, p. 5; STC: Minutes of Board Meeting, 20 February 1955.
36. ST, March 1953, pp. 8-10; ST, April 1953, pp. 8-10.
37. "Nudists to Open New Camp," Vancouver Province, 17 July 1953; "Inside a Nudist Camp: Sun Reporter Visits Sun Worshippers' Surrey Colony," Vancouver Sun, 20 July 1953; "Surrey Nudist Camp Opened," Vancouver Province, 20 July 1953; "Nudists Defy Showers to Choose Royal Family," Vancouver Province, 17 August 1953.
38. Jean Howarth column, Vancouver Province, 19 July 1954; Jean Howarth, "I visited a British Columbia nudist camp," Liberty, August 1955, p. 30; WP, November 1958, p. 6; Sunny gatherings, August 1954. Also Mac Reynolds, "Nudists' Socks Good Pockets," Vancouver Sun, undated clipping in STC press file (July, 1954); ST, December 1954, p. 9.
39. "2,500 Attend Open House At Surrey Nudist Camp," Vancouver Sun, 17 August 1959; "Public Visits Nudist Camp; Weather Hostile," Globe & Mail, 17 August 1959; "2300 Sign Cards at Nudist Club," Surrey Leader, 20 August 1959; "Nudist Camp Open House Draws Crowd," Whalley Herald, 20 August 1959.
40. Sunny Gatherings, September 1959; "The Biggest Open House in History," Modern Sunbathing, December 1959, pp. 29-30, 41; "Open House at a Nudist Park," American Sunbather, January 1960, pp. 16-18; STC: Minutes of Spring Board Meeting, 1960; Sunny Gatherings, June 1960; "Sunny Trails Scores Again!," CSAir, June 1960, p. 5.
41. STC: Minutes of Board Meeting, 11 July 1964. See also "Sunny Trails Club," SH, June 1954, p. 25; "A Day among 'The Bares' at a Nudist Camp in Surrey," Surrey Leader, 10 June 1964.
42. "New Light in Canada," SH, November 1953, pp. 4-5. Also "Early Days at Sunny Trails," CSAir, May 1962, pp. 10-13.
43. "Sunny Trails Club," SH, June 1954, p. 25; "History of Sunny Trails," Sunny Gatherings, May 1973; CSA: AC-RC, undated (1955).
44. Sunny Gatherings, June 1957; STC: Minutes of Board Meeting, 30 September 1974. WP, April 1957, p. 17; WP, July 1957, p. 16.
45. "Larry's History," Sunny Gatherings, August 1972. STC: Minutes of Board Meeting, 5 October 1959; Minutes of Annual Membership Meeting, 22 November 1959; Sunn Gatherings, December 1958; ibid, January 1959; October 1959; ibid, November 1959; interview--Helen (Surrey, BC).
46. "Larry's History," October 1973.
47. Quotes from a letter to the Editor by one of the architects of the impending coup, SG, November 1961. See also "Larry's History," Sunnv Gatherings, October 1973; STC: Minutes of Board Meeting, 27 July 1961; 17 August 1961, 15 October 1961; Sunny Gatherings, August 1961.
48. STC: Ms Draft of a Program of Emergency, December 1961; STC: Sunny Trails Reform Committee, Circular to Members, 12 January 1962.
49. Interview--Mel (Surrey BC); "Larry's History," Sunny Gatherings, March 1974. See also STC: Minutes of the Membership Meeting, January 1962; STC: Ms Draft of Motions for January 1962 Membership Meeting.
50. STC: HT-SS, 4 February 1962; SS-STC, 6 March 1962; Sunny Gatherings, April 1962; WCSA: ASA-STC, 14 May 1981.
51. STC: STC-EPS, 22 January 1962; "Larry's History," Sunny Gatherings, October 1973; Sunny gatherings, June 1964; STC: Minutes of Board Meeting, 26 April 1964; 11 July 1964. On the 1970 transactions see STC: Minutes of Board Meetings: November 1968; January 1970; March 1970; November 1970; 28 February 1971; 14 March 1971; 3 March 1971; interview--Gene (Surrey BC); also Sunnv Gatherings, 1971 passim.
52. Letter, Sunny Gatherings, September 1964. Also STC: Circular Letter, Board to Members, 26 January 1963; "Liquor, clothes in the new nudist look," New Westminster British Columbian, 20 May 1964; Connett, "Reminiscences," STC: Minutes of Membership Meeting, 11 September 1960; Letter, Sunnv Gatherings, 1964. See also Bill Bachop, "They're a moral lot, those Sunny Trail nudists," New Westminster British Columbian, 6 July 1963.
53. Letter, Sunny gatherings, November 1964; STC: "President's Report," Membership Meeting, 20 May 1980; Letter, Sunny gatherings, November 1969; ibid, January 1970; "Larry's History," Sunny Gatherings, March 1974; WCSA: ED-ON, October 1967. Also: "Liquor, clothes in the new nudist look," New Westminster British Columbian, 20 May 1964.
54. "Nudists lurk in forest," Vancouver Sun, quoted in Sunny Gatherings, May 1972. STC: Minutes of Board Meetings, November 1968; January 1970; March 1970; November 1970. See also Alan Twigg, Vander Zalm: From Immigrant to Premier (Madeira Beach, B.C.: Harbour Publishing, 1986).
55. Sunny Gatherings, June 1973.
56. "Sunny Trails Club," CNN, March 1993. STC: Minutes of General Meeting, 6 July 1980; "Sunny Trails Club," CNN, Fall 1988; ibid, Spring 1989; "Mountain Haven Nudist Resort Opens in B.C.," GN, Spring 1989, p. 5; "Report from Sunny Trails," GN, Summer 1992, p. 17.
57. "New Club for WCSA," CSAir, June-July, 1963, pp. 1, 20; STC: Minutes of Board Meeting, 16 May 1963; STC-ED & JD, 20 May 1963.
58. "New Club for WCSA," CSAir, June-July 1963, pp. 1, 20; "Opening Day at Meadowbrook," CSAir, August 1963, p. 5; "Meadowbrook Makes a Pasture Pay Off," Modern Sunbathing, August 1964, pp. 10-11; "How to Start Your Own Nudist Park," Nudist Forum, (September 1965), pp. 34-35.
59. ECSA: ED-BC, 17 May 1966. "Meadowbrook Seeking New Location," ASA Bulletin (1965), p. 3; WCSA Newsletter, February 1966; WCSA Newsletter, June 1966; Meadowlark, September 1966; "Meadowbrook Aims High," Nudism Today Vol. 5, n 3 (1968), p. 29; Neil Godin, "What do holidaying nudists do?," British Columbian, 15 July 1968.
60. "Thoughts on Running for President," Meadowlark, October 1971. ECSA: ED-BC, 17 May 1966; "Message from the President," Meadowlark, January 1972.
61. "Meadowbrook: Fun Fair a Success," Minutes of WCSA Convention, November 1969; "Meadowbrook," ibid, Spring 1970; ibid, August 1973.
62. Sunny Gatherings, August 1972. "Sunshine prevails at the Miss Nude Pacific Northwest Contest," CNN, SeptemberNovember 1972, p. 3.
63. "Patty Dances Off with Title," New Westminster Columbian, 22 July 1974; Hank Harrison, "Streaked by the Shirt 'n Slax Set," Vancouver Leisure Magazine, September 1974, pp. 38-41. Also "Report from B.C.," WCSA Newsletter, 10 August 1973.
64. WCSA: JC-RE, 6 January 1975; "Crimonology [sic] of Meadowbrook Meeting," 20 April 1975; JC-RE, 21 May 1975; Hyperions: Minutes of Board Meeting, Hyperion Happenings, June 1975; Minutes of Annual Convention, WCSA Newsletter (1975); JD-RE, 12 March 1976; interview--Steve (Surrey).
65. WCSA: JC-RE, 21 May 1975; Meadowlark, April 1977.
66. Hyperion Happenings, March 1978. Hyperions: Minutes of Board Meeting, 18 June 1972; Hyperion Happenings, January 1978; March 1978; May 1979.
67. STC: Minutes of Board Meeting, 17 June 1973; 8 July 1973; Sunny Gatherings, July 1973; Hyperion Happenings, June 1973; Hyperions: Minutes of Board Meeting, 17 June 1973.
68. Hank Harrison, "Streaked by the Shirt 'n Slax Set," Vancouver Leisure Magazine, September 1974, pp. 38-41. Hyperions: Minutes of Board Meeting, 5 October 1975; Letter, RW-Board, in Minutes of Board Meeting, 5 October 1975.
69. "Report of P.R.O.," Minutes of the Annual General Meeting, 9 November 1975. Hyperions: Minutes of Board Meeting, 8 February 1976; 28 March 1976; 23 January 1977; Minutes of Membership Meeting, 13 June 1976.
70. Hyperions: Minutes of Board Meetings, 5 October 1975; 19 June 1977; 13 June 1978; 10 September 1978; interview--Vic (Surrey).
71. WCSA: Hyperions: "Presidential Letter of Resignation," RW-Board, 5 October 1975; RF-RW, 16 December 1979; Hyperion Happenings, December-January 1979-80. See also Hyperions: Minutes of Board Meeting, 23 January 1977; 19 June 1977; Minutes of Membership Meeting, 19 November 1978; February 1979; 17 June 1979; 18 November 1979; Hyperion Happenings, November 1978; December 1978; Summer 1979; Minutes of Board Meeting, 2 May 1979.
72. RW, "Open Letter to Members," Hyperion Happenings, winter 1981. Hyperions: Minutes of Meeting, 23 November 1980; "Jim's Jottings," Hyperion Happenings, March 1981.
73. Hyperion Club Newsletter, December 1987-November 1988. Also: Hyperions: "Letter of Agreement," RW-WJ, 14 July 1983; Hyperion Happenings, Winter 1987-88; Wreck Beach Preservation Society Newsletter (1993); "The Vancouver Sunbathing Association," GN, Summer 1994, p. 5.
Chapter Four
1. Letter (Whitehorse), STM, November-December 1950, p. 20; "Hot Up North," CSAir, June 1960, p. 5; CNN, June 1980; ibid, September 1980; "Arctic Bares," CNN, June 1981.
2. "Landmark in Canadian History," SBH, June 1951, p. 13. Canadian Nudist registry; ST, November 1956, p. 9; CSA: AT-MM, 15 October 1949; interview--Don (Stony Plain AB).
3. Connett, "Reminiscences;" Sunshine Link, January 1946; ibid, September 1946; "The Edmontans," SH, July 1950, pp. 13, 32.
4. CSA: AT-MM, 15 October 1949; ST, November 1956, p. 9; CSA: KKGE, undated (1952). ST, June 1948, p. 11; ST, January 1952, p. 9; CSA: KK-MM, Labor Day, 1949; AT-HM, 6 January 1951; "Edmontans," STM, October 1950, p. 14; "Edmontans," STM, January 1951, p. 10.
5. "A Men's Group in Edmonton," STM, June 1953, p. 12. "Edmontans," STM, August 1955, p. 7; ibid, February 1956, p. 15; ST, November 1956, pp. 8-10.
6. CSA: Minutes of Western Board, 15 November 1958; telephone conversation--Don (Stony Plain AB). "Edmontans," CSAir, July 1959, p. 8; "Sun Air visits Edmonton," CSAir, August 1959, p. 4; "Progress in Edmonton," CSAir, June 1960, p. 2; "Noraltans Club Vote for Affiliation," ASA Bulletin, April 1962, p. 2; "Two New Groups Ask WCSA Affiliation," CSAir, April 1962, p. 9; interview--Lee (Edmonton).
7. "President's Column," CSAir, December-January-February 1963-64, pp. 4-5; "Group No. 580 Chooses Name: Helios Edmonton," April 1964, p. 13; interview--Don; telephone conversation--George (Edmonton).
8. Telephone conversations--Don, Lee. "Helios Edmonton," WCSA Newsletter, January 1968, p. 5; ibid, April 1968, p. 3; ibid, June 1968, p. 4; ibid, Fall 1970, p. 4.
9. Interview--Don; Helios 1398: "New Year's Letter to all Helios Members," December 1971.
10. Helios 1398: "New Year's Letter to all Helios Members," December 1971.
11. Helios 1398: "Invitation for the Annual Meeting, 15 February 1972," Helios Edmonton Newsletter, June-July 1972.
12. "Helios 1398," WCSA Convention Minutes, 1975; Helios 1398: "President's Message," November 1972; interviews--Lee, Don. On Wesemann's personal troubles see "Nudist Issue Raised," Edmonton Journal, 27 June 1967, and "Nudism Case Judge Asks: Are You Out Of Your Mind?,"Edmonton Journal, 30 June 1967. The judge's comments became a legal issue in their own right.
13. Telephone conversation--Don; "Helios Edmonton," CNN, March 1976. Bare Facts, April 1974; "Helios Edmonton Report," WCSA Convention Minutes, 1974; ibid, 1975.
14. "Helios Edmonton," CNN, September 1978; ibid, June 1992; ibid, March 1993; telephone conversation--Lee; "A visit to Helios Nudist Association," GN, Spring 1999, p. 8.
15. WCSA Newsletter, Fall 1970; "Glenden Park Nudisty [sic] Society," CNN, May 1972, p. 4; interviews--Don, George (Edmonton).
16. WCSA Newsletter, September-October 1971; interview--Lee; telephone conversation--Don.
17. WCSA Newsletter, April 1968; ECSA: JF-HB, 28 September 1974; Bare in Mind, February 1975; WCSA: RI-RS, 2 May 1983; "Deposing the porno king," Alberta Report, 2 May 1983, p. 24; Rob, quoted by Richard De Candole, "The Naked truth: a look at a nudist club," Edmonton Sun, 27 June 1982.
18. "New Club Forming," CNN, March 1978; "Altans," June 1980; "Altans," ASA Bulletin, March 1978, p. 8.
19. "The Edmonton Nudist Society," June 1989. See also club reports in CNN: Spring 1984; Fall 1986; and September 1993. See also "There's a New Club in Alberta!! Northern Sands," CNN, March 1993.
20. ST, May 1947, p. 11. Also: RP, December 1947, p. 22; Poplar Leaves, August-September 1972; RP, December 1947, p. 22; "The Calgary Club," STM, July 1948, p. 22; "Calgary," STM, October 1950, p. 14; "Calgary," STM, December 1950, p. 19; ibid, February 1951, p. 12; "Edmontans," STM, October 1951, p. 13; "Sunny Chinooks," June 1952, p. 12; ibid, September-October 1952, p. 14; ibid, November 1952; CSA: AM-HM, 17 March 1951; BS-HM, 26 March 1951; HM-BS, 2 May 1951; HM-AM, 30 March 1951.
21. "Were They Really 'The Good Old Days'?," Poplar Leaves, JuneJuly 1978. Also: "Sunny Chinooks," STM, November 1952, p. 11; ibid, July 1955, pp. 8-9; ibid, November 1955, pp. 16-17; "The History of Sunny Chinooks," CSAir, August 1962, pp. 12-14; "History of the Sunny Chinooks Association," Poplar Leaves, December 1974; Twenty Years a Nudist," Poplar Leaves, December 1976.
22. "The History of Sunny Chinooks," CSAir, August 1962, pp. 1214; CSA: AR-RS, 20 June 1959; "Sunny Chinooks," CSAir, AprilMay 1959, p. 9. Also: SCA: Minutes of San Helios Board, 21 June 1959; "San Helios," CSAir, August 1959, p. 12; "Undesirable Member Warning," CSAir, June-July 1962, pp. 6-7.
23. "San Helios," CSAir, August 1959, p. 12. ANRL: "Ray Connett Interview," (video tape recording, 1992); SCA: Minutes of San Helios Board Meeting, 12 April 1959; 21 June 1959; 17 July 1959; Letter, Poplar Leaves, August-September 1972; "History of the Sunny Chinooks Association," Poplar Leaves, December 1974.
24. Letter, RC-SCA, in Poplar Leaves, August-September 1972. "The History of Sunny Chinooks," CSAir, August 1962, pp. 13-14; "Were They Really the Good Old Days," Poplar Leaves, June-July 1978.
25. SCA: Minutes of Membership Meeting, 10 July 1960; "President to Directors," 27 June 1961. Also: Minutes of Board Meeting, 24 February 1960; "The History of Sunny Chinooks," CSAir, August 1962, pp. 13-14; "History of the Sunny Chinooks Association," Poplar Leaves, December 1974; "Twenty Years a Nudist," Poplar Leaves, December 1976.
26. SCA: "A Sunny Invitation," (mimeograph; chorus and some verses omitted); "This is the Year," CSAir, June-July 1962, pp. 13-14.
27. SCA: Minutes of Board Meeting, 24 November 1961; 29 August 1962; Letter, President to Members, 30 August 1962; Directors' Meeting, 13 September 1962; General Membership Meeting, 10 January 1963; Poplar Leaves, February 1963; "New Deal for Sunny Chinooks," CSAir, April 1963, p. 20; "Calgary Club Has Excellent Paper," ibid, May 1963, pp. 2, 18; "Sale of Property for Sunny Chinooks," ibid, April 1963, p. 13; "Calgary Club Has Excellent Paper," CSAir, May 1963, pp. 2, 18.
28. SCA: SCA Board-Members, 10 October 1963. See also ibid, 23 October 1963; SCA: Minutes of Meeting, 21 May 1964; SCA: "Record of Agreement between Leah Properties, Highwood Enterprises, and the Sunny Chinooks Association," (1964); "History of the Sunny Chinooks Association," Poplar Leaves, December 1974; Poplar Leaves, September 1978; "Sunny Chinooks Historical Happenings," Poplar Leaves, June-July 1982; interview--Rod (Cochrane AB).
29. "Sunny Chinooks Historical Happenings," Poplar Leaves, JuneJuly 1982; "After 32 Years of Growth, Future's Unlimited for Sunny Chinooks," ASA Bulletin, May 1983, pp. 18-19.
30. SCA: Minutes of General Meeting," 22 September 1971; "Historical Happenings," Poplar Leaves, June-July 1982.
31. "From the President," Poplar Leaves, June 1973; "The ground will be my resting place," Poplar Leaves, December 1978; "Time for Change," Poplar Leaves, March 1979.
32. SCA: "President's Report," March-April 1980; Minutes, General Meeting, 7 September 1981; "Rod's Ramblings," Poplar Leaves, May 1983; "Sunny Chinook's News," CNN, Spring 1984; SCA: LSSCA, 10 April 1988.
33. "Rod's Ramblings," Poplar Leaves, May 1983; Letter, RF-FCN, GN, Spring 1991, p. 17.
34. Cristine Bye, "Nudists enjoy life naturally," Calgary Herald, 10 July 1982; Letter, RF-DB, GN, Spring 1991, pp. 17-18; Letter, SCA-FCN, GN, Summer 1991, p. 17; "Sunny Chinooks Looking for a Home," ASA Bulletin, October 1990, p. 22; "Sunny Chinooks Association," CNN June 1991, pp. 14-15.
35. "Sunny Chinooks Looking for a Home," ASA Bulletin, October 1990, p. 22; "Sunny Chinooks Association," CNN, Summer 1991, pp. 14-15; ibid, June 1992, reprinted in GN, Summer 1992, p. 16; "Sunny Chinooks," CNN, September 1992, pp. 6-7; "Sunny Chinooks Association," CNN, June 1993, pp. 2-3; "Sunny Chinooks Makes a Remarkable Comeback," ASA Bulletin, October (Calgary) .
36. WCSA: HB-GSR, 23 October 1966; HB-ON, 21 March 1967; RF-MK, 12 June 1968.
37. SCA: JV-AS, 10 June 1971. FE-JF, 4 December 1974; "Flo on Canada," Bare in Mind, February 1976, p. 11; WCSA: SE-WCSA, 25 September 1978.
38. "Golden Sun Ranch," CNN, September 1980; SCA: Minutes of Board Meeting, 4 October 1981; SCA-ALF, 4 October 1981; RI-ASA, 28 July 1983; Letter, DW-RE and SE, CNN, June 1982; interview-Harry (Calgary).
39. CSA: AS-RC, 22 November 1948. 1993, pp 24-25; telephone conversations--Lee; Jan.
40. CSA: AS-RC, 1 March 1949; CSA-AS, 27 March 1949. On the later group see the "4S Club Report" in CSAir, December 1962, p. 4, and "Spring Meeting of WCSA Board," CSAir, May 1963, p. 1.
41. ST, April 1947, pp. 10-13; Letter (Silver Park, SK), STM, November-December 1950, p. 19; "Saskatoon, SK," STM, October 1950, p. 14; ibid, November-December 1950, p. 19; ibid, May 1951, p. 10; ibid, October 1951, p. 13; ibid, December 1951, p. 9; "News from Hamilton," June 1952, pp. 13-14; "Sunny Chinooks," CSAir, June 1962, p. 19.
42. "Sun Air visits the Havatans," CSAir, July 1959, p. 14. "Havatans," STM, June 1958, p. 10; "Havatans Club," CSAir, June 1960, pp. 8-9; "A Positive Attitude to Nudism Given," Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, 22 July 1972.
43. WCSA: Jim-WCSA, 15 July 1975; Jim-WCSA, 22 February 1976. WCSA-Jim, 25 February 1976; MB-WCSA, 10 February 1972; RC-WE, 16 January 1973; DB-Jim, 8 September 1974; "Havatan Park Club Report," WCSA Convention Minutes, 1975, p. 19; interview-Werner (Regina).
44. WCSA: Jim-WCSA, 15 July 1975; Jim-WCSA, 22 February 1976. WCSA-Jim, 25 February 1976; MB-WCSA, 10 February 1972; RC-WE, 16 January 1973; DB-Jim, 8 September 1974; "Havatan Park Club Report," WCSA Convention Minutes, 1975, p. 19; interview-Werner (Regina).
45. WCSA: ED-AR, 12 May 1968; interviews--Werner (Regina), Alex (Beausejour MB), Ernie (Weyburn SK).
46. WCSA: MB-WCSA, 10 February 1972; "The Prairie Suns," CNN, July 1978. Also WCSA: RC-WE, 16 January 1973; "Prairie Suns," CNN, September 1991; ibid, March 1992; ibid, March 1994; interviews--Werner (Regina), Ernie (Weyburn).
47. "Green Haven," CNN, August-September 1973, pp. 14-15; "Saskatchewan Success: Green Haven Sun Club," GN, Summer 1987, p. 11; interview--Werner (Regina).
48. "Green Haven Update," CNN, Fall, 1981, p. 1; "Green Haven Sun Club," ibid, Summer 1986, p. 5; "Green Haven Updates," ibid, Spring 1989, p. 12; "Saskatchewan Success: Green Haven Sun Club," GN, Summer 1987, p. 11; ASA Bulletin, June 1993, p. 26; "Green Haven Sun Club Celebrates 20th Anniversary, Opens NudeA-Plex Clubhouse," ibid, September 1993, p. 15; "Green Haven Nudes Host WCSA Convention," GN, Fall 1987, p. 5.
49. "Health Regained in the Canadian Wild Wood," H&E, February 1938, p. ii; RP, October 1953, p. 27; "Naturism gave me health at 55," H&E, November 1938, p. 400; "Canoeing in a Naturist's Paradise," H&E, January 1938, pp. i-iv; CSA-East: GN-JC (undated, 1958).
50. CSA: Len-HM, 20 December 1950. "Manitoba Out Door Club," STM, April 1949, p. 13; "The Outdoor Club Moves Indoors," November-December 1950, pp. 10-12; "Manitoba Outdoor Club," STM, July 1951, pp. 12-14; CSA: HM-Len, 13 January 1951; Len-HM, 25 January 1951.
51. CSA: AS-MM, 12 October 1949; AS-GE, 15 November 1950; Len-HM, 20 December 1950; AS-RC, (undated, 1949); AS-MM, 12 October 1949; AS-MM & EM, 19 October 1949; "Manitoba Outdoor Club," STM, April 1949, p. 13; ibid, April-May 1959, p. 9; "The Outdoor Club Moves Indoors," ibid, November-December 1950, p. 10; Letter, AW-Author, 24 May 1990.
52. "Manitoba Outdoor Club," CSAir, April-May 1959, p. 9. See also "Manitoba Outdoor Club," STM, March-April 1951, pp. 1011; ibid, May 1955, pp. 11-12; RP, June 1957, pp. 15-16; Letter, AW-Author, 24 May 1990.
53. "Manitoba Outdoor Club," CSAir, November-December 1960, pp. 89; "Manitoba Outdoor Club," WCSA Newsletter, September-October 1971. Also:"Manitoba Outdoor Club," WCSA Newsletter, October 1966, p. 10; WCSA: DB-YMCA, 18 February 1972; YMCA-HH, 20 March 1972; Letter, Petals, April 1982.
54. "Manitoba Outdoor Club," CSAir, November-December 1960, p. 8. CSA: RC-CB, 11 May 1956; AS-FG, 27 October 1950; "Manitoba Outdoor Club," CSAir, February 1960, p. 7; and club reports in WCSA Newsletter, June 1966; October 1966. See also WCSA: JWRC, 12 March 1975; AW-ASA, 30 April 1981.
55. "Manitoba Prov. Director's Report," WCSA: Minutes of 1974 Convention; "Crocus Grove Sun Club," CNN, Spring 1988; "Report from Crocus Grove Sun Club," Minutes of 1974 Convention; interviews--Leon (Beausejour MB), Denis (Winnipeg).
56. Interview--Leon. WCSA Newsletter, June 1969; Minutes of 1973 Convention, p. 13; "In Loving Memory," CNN, Spring 1988, p. 4; "Crocus Grove," CNN, Spring 1988, p. 5; "A Short History of Crocus Grove," ibid, June 1994, pp. 5-7; ASA Bulletin, June 1974, p. 1; WCSA Newsletter, 1983, p. 11.
57. CNN, March 1979, p. 3; nterview--Leon.
58. "10 Years at the 'Y' are celebrated by Crocus Groove [sic] Sun Club," ASA Bulletin, June 1982, p. 13; "Crocus Grove Sun Club," CNN, Spring 1987, p. 7; "Crocus Grove Celebrates Silver Anniversary," ASA Bulletin, April 1994, p. 25.
Chapter Five
1. RP, April 1955, p. 14; RP, January 1948, pp. 18-19. Letter, SH, February 1944, p. 3; RP, September 1957, p. 14; RP, SBH, March 1956, p. 21.
2. CSA: LW-RC, 30 December 1950.
3. "Norhaven," SBH, March 1953, p. 11; "Looking Ahead to the Holidays," SBH, April 1944, pp. 358-359, 368; "The Sun Air Freedom Lovers," SBH, February 1945, pp. 302-303. The first notice for a summer camp appeared on the inside front cover of the April 1944 issue of SBH.
4. "'Sun Air Freedom Lovers' Organize," SBH, April 1946, p. 366.
5. Ibid, p. 367; SAFL Link, August 1946.
6. "Sun Air Freedom Lovers," SBH, February 1945, p. 303; CSA: MM-ASA, 10 October 1947.
7. Quotes from Link, January 1947 and November 1947. See also: December 1946; March 1947; "Naturist Holidays," SBH, January 1948, pp. 14-15, 22.
8. "An Appeal from North Bay," RP, December 1948, pp. 19-20; Link, January 1948; Letter, BS-RC, reprinted in "Toronto," STM, October 1947, p. 2. ST, April 1947, pp. 6-7; "A Remarkable Publicity Idea," STM, March-April 1951, pp. 5-6; ST, January 1952, p.8; Echo, July 1958, p. 3; interview--John (North Bay).
9. "Report from Norhaven," SBH, December 1950, p. 22; RP, June 1951, p. 19; RP, April 1952, p. 22.
10. CSA: RC, ms note on BB-HM, 10 March 1951.
11. "Word from the SAFL," STM, November 1949, pp. 5-6.
12. "Report from Norhaven," SBH, December 1950, p. 22. Link, April 1950; ibid, May 1950; "Eastern Secretary's Report," STM, August 1950, p. 12.
13. "Norhaven," STM, September 1950, p. 14. Link, January 1948; February-March 1948; August-September 1948; January 1949; May 1950.
14. Link, August-September 1947; Link, August-September 1948; CSA: SR-RC, 5 December 1948. Also RC-DN, June 1949; Link, July 1949.
15. CSA: BB-RC, 30 September 1952; BB-To All Members, 10 May 1951; BB-RC, 15 September 1951.
16. CSA: BB-RC, 30 September 1952. CSA: BB-RC, 7 March 1953; "Norhaven," STM, August 1954, p. 13; CSA: II-BC, 9 June 1955; "Ten Years of Progress," SBH, July 1958, pp. 28-29; interview-John.
17.Link, August 1959; CSA: BC-JS, 7 September 1962; interviews--Reg, Angel (Kissimmee, FL), John, Gerry, Myrtle (North Bay, ON).
18.CSA: CB-RC, 9 May 1956; RC-BC, 14 May 1956; CSA-East: CA and EA-JC, 29 April 1958; CA and EA-JC, 22 February 1959; ECSA: Board Newsletter, 2 October 1964.
19.CSA East: PJ-JC, 30 August 1958; PJ-JC, 22 February 1959; ECSA: BC-RH, 15 May 1963; DV-BC, 27 September 1964; Board Newsletter, 26 June 1968.
20.ECSA: JS-ECSA, 2 September 1965; BC-JS, 3 September 1965; Board Newsletter, 13 November 1965; JS-BC, 14 February 1970.
21."Canada Speaks," SH, June 1948, p. 22. Also: ibid, August 1947, p. 18.
22.CSA: JW-RC, 15 September 1948. Letter, STM, July 1947, p. 6; BC-RC, 28 December 1948; Letter, International Nudist Registry.
23."Sunglades," STM, June 1952, p. 13. CSA: RN-DN, 24 February 1949; CSA: RN-BC, March 1956; FM-TGS, 9 April 1956; "Canada Speaks," SH, October 1947, p. 22; "Toronto," STM, July 1948, p. 20; ST, August 1952, p. 8.
24. CSA: RN-RC, 1 February 1949; BC-RC, 1 February 1949; RN-RC, undated (January-February 1949.
25. "Sunglades," STM, April 1949, p. 14; CSA: RN-DN, 26 May 1949. See also: RN-RC, 10 February 1949; RN-DN, 24 March 1949; RNRC, 23 April 1949; RN-RC, 9 May 1949; RN-RC, 17 May 1949; FM-A & H, 24 May 1949.
26. CSA: RN-RC, 30 November 1948; RN-RC, 22 October 1952; BC-RN, 17 January 1956. Also: RN-RC, 30 November 1948; CW-RC, 2 October 1951.
27. "Sunglades Club, Toronto," SH, July 1949, p. 27; CSA: RC-CSA Board, 27 March 1950; KL-ASA, 12 March 1951.
28. CSA: JJ-MM, 8 October 1949; RN-RC, May 1949. See also "Sunglades," STM, March-April 1951, pp. 12-13; CSA: KLRC, 2 December 1950; RN-BC, 28 March 1956.
29. CSA: KL-ASA, 12 March 1951; "Sunglades," STM, November-December 1950, p. 14; ibid, March-April 1951, p. 12; ibid, October 1951; Sgl: AM-Sunglades Members, 14 November 1951.
30. "Sunglades," STM, November-December 1950, p. 14. Ibid, March-April 1951, p. 12; ST, August 1952, p. 9; interview--Steve (Pottageville, ON).
31. "Sunglades," STM, February 1951, pp. 13-14; CSA: KL-GE, 24 January 1952; also KL-HM, 17 March 1951.
32. CSA: AT-FM, 22 March 1954; WP, December 1951, pp. 17-18; RC-CSA Club Officers, 29 August 1951; Sgl: [Mrs] RGSunglades, 9 October 1951. See also CSA: Minutes of Board Meeting, 10 November 1950; Minutes of Board Meeting, 1 December 1950.
33. CSA: KL-RC, 15 September 1951. Also: CW-RC, 2 October 1951; RN-BC, 28 March 1956.
34. CSA: KL-HM, 5 May 1951; RN-RC, undated (May 1949); RC-Eastern Leaders, "Report on January CSA Board Meeting," 11 January 1953. Also AM-JC, 3 March 1952.
35. CSA: AT-Sunglade Members, 14 November 1950.
36. CSA: RN-RC, 20 July 1951; AM-RC, 30 June 1951; AT-QTC, 18 February 1952; KL-GE, 14 July 1952; AT-QTC Supplement, 18 February 1952. See also the controversy over "Sunglades" in STM, October 1951, pp. 14-16.
37. CSA: AM-RC, 30 June 1951; RN-DN, 20 April 1949; AM-RC, 30 June 1951; RN-RC, 20 July 1951; "Opinions of Another New Eastern Director," STM, December 1951, p. 14.
38. CSA: AT-QTC (Supplement), 18 February 1951.
39. AM-HM, 7 April 1951; AM-QTC (Supplement), 18 February 1951.
40. CSA: AM-RC, 30 June 1951; RN-RC, 17 May 1949; RN-RC, 30 November 1948]; DL-RC, 17 January 1953.
41. CSA: AM-HM, 7 April 1951; AM-RC, 30 June 1951; RC-AT, undated (Summer 1951).
42. CSA: RN-BC, 28 March 1956; AT-FM, 22 March 1954.
43. CSA: RN-RC, undated (Spring 1952). Also RN-Sunglades Members, 30 June 1952; FM-BC, 3 May 1955.
44. CSA: RN-BC, 28 March 1956; DL-RC, 30 March 1953; AT-EM, 28 February 1955; RN-RC, 5 September 1952; RN-EE, 25 September 1952; RN-GE, 2 November 1952.
45. CSA: DL-RN, 21 December 1952; RN-CSA, 27 December 1952. Also: RN-GB, 29 November 1952; DL-Sunglades Members, 30 November 1952; DL-RN, 21 December 1952.
46. CSA: RN-BC, 28 March 1956; RN-GE, 2 November 1952; RN-GE, 4 November 1952; DL-RC, 30 March 1953. See also BB-RC, 13 October 1952; RN-GE, 29 October 1952; "Sunglades," STM, JulyAugust-September 1953, p. 13; CSA: AT-FM, 22 March 1954.
47. CSA: RN-GE, 4 November 1952.
Chapter Six
1. CSA: RC-Sunglades Club, 11 March 1954; BC-RC, 3 April 1954; "Toronto Gymnosophical Society," STM, August 1954, pp. 13-14; TGS Echo, Spring 1957.
2. CSA: AT-BC, 28 February 1955; BC-AT, 24 March 1955; EM-Sunshine Friends, 20 April 1955; 10 June 1955.
3. Interviews--Eddy, Mary (Pottageville, ON; Kissimmee, FL).
4. Echo, November 1983. TGS: Circular, 16 July 1955; "Toronto Gymnosophical Society," STM, August 1955, p. 9; interviews-Eddy, Mary (Pottageville, ON, Kissimmee, FL)), Bill (London, ON).
5. CSA: BC-RC, 10 September 1955; TGS: "Agreement Between Landowners and Toronto Gymnosophical Society," 2 August 1962. Also: "Verbal Understanding with Eddy," 21 June 1955; "Toronto Gymnosophical Society," STM, November 1955, pp. 18-19.
6. CSA: ET & MT-RC, 5 December 1955; RC-ET & MT, 9 December 1955; "Toronto Group is on the March," SBH, December 1956, p. 32; Echo, April 1959; August 1960; October 1960; November 1960.
7. Echo, November 1959; November 1969; "Nudism Recreation? Director Thinks So," Oakville Daily Journal-Record, 24 January 1963; "Volleyball Saved Nudism," Oakville Daily JournalRecord, 24 March 1964.
8. Echo, September 1960; October 1967. Also TGS: Agreement, dated 17 July 1962, signed 2 August 1962; interviews--Eddy, Bill, Doug (Barrie, ON).
9. ECSA: ASA Report on Clubs (1979); Jerry Gladman, "Jerry gets the facts--barely," Toronto Sun, 20 August 1995. Also Echo, April 1968.
10. ECSA: BC-KR, 23 January 1968; Minutes of Board Meeting, 2 March 1968; Board Letter, 16 June 1969; "Toronto Helios," Bare in Mind, December 1980; interview--Eric (Sharon, ON). On the reincarnation see "The New Forest," GN, Winter 1999-2000, p. 9.
11. CSA: GC-RC, 11 August 1949. CSA: BM-RC, 7 June 1949.
12. CSA: HM-AK, 30 May 1951. Also RP, February 1951, pp. 1819; CSA: RC-RN & DL, 7 January 1953; Minutes of CSA Board Meeting, 11 January 1953; RC-BB, undated (January 1953).
13. CSA: MH-Dear Sunshine Friends, 8 January 1951; RP, October 1952, p. 14. Letter (Fonthill, ON), STM, May 1953, p. 12; "Niagara Gymnosophical Society," STM, August 1954, p. 13.
14. CSA: KR-BC, 31 May 1955; AM-BC, 19 May 1955. Also BC-MH, 15 September 1954; interview--Mel (Welland, ON).
15. ST, February 1959, pp. 8-9; "Sun Valley Heights," SBH, April 1958, pp. 24-25. Also "Niagara Gymnosophical Society," STM, January 1958, pp. 8-9; Echo, March 1958.
16. ST, February 1959, p. 8. Cecil Mitchel, "Tribune Man Visits Nudists," Welland Evening Tribune, 16 August 1955; Sun Valley News, March 1956; CSA: PP-EC, 28 January 1958.
17. Ian Paterson and Ron Collister, A Warm, Naked Welcome," Toronto Telegram, 7 May 1956; Frank Fowler, "Daily Reporters Flunk Nudist Camp Test," Hush Free Press, 21 May 1956.
18. Don Grant, "Undress Parade Snubbed," Toronto Telegram, 25 June 1956; Frank Fowler, "Daily Reporters Flunk Nudist Camp Test," Hush Free Press, 21 May 1956; "Open House Triumph in the East," STM, September 1956, p. 2.
19. "NGS Holds Nude Open House," CSAir, August 1959, pp. 12-13. For adverse reaction by some club members see "Forty Acres of Happiness," CSAir, January 1960, p. 14.
20. "A Visit to Toronto," Sunny Gatherings, November 1957; interviews--Max (Casselman, ON), Lisa (Freelton, ON), Eddy, Hildburg. Also: ECSA: JS-SW, 25 November 1961; JS-BC, 11 July 1963.
21. CSA: BS-JC, 6 August 1958.
22. ECSA: CF-ECSA, 1963. SVG: "You Are Invited;" "Many Roads Lead to Sun Valley Gardens."
23. "Sun Valley Gardens," Bare in Mind, December 1974, p. 6; ASA Bulletin, December 1974, p. 6; "Ontario Park Closing Gates after 27 Years in Business," ASA Bulletin, February 1982, p. 7; "Ontario," CNN, Fall 1984, p. 18; interview--Mel.
24. ECSA: GM-BC, 25 April 1961; Olympian Herald, October 1962. "Olympus Club," CSAir, November 1959, pp. 13-14; ibid, May 1960, p. 10; ibid, June 1960, p. 11; ibid, July 1960, p. 9; Bare Facts, July 1960; ECSA: PP-BC, 30 April 1968; ET-BC, 5 June 1967.
25. "Happy 30th Anniversary Lilly Valley," GN, Summer 1993, pp.10-12; see also the report in Nude Lark, No. 20 (1967).
26. ECSA: "Report on Visits to Clubs," 8 September 1965; LM-BC, 1 October 1965. ECSA: Board Report, 1 October 1965; BC-GF, 23 October 1965; "Nudist Camps: That's Enough, Says Township," St. Catharines Standard, 15 September 1965; "Reason for Nudist Camp Ban Sought," Niagara Falls Evening Review, 28 September 1965.
27. "Happy 30th Anniversary Lilly Valley," GN, pp. 10-12; ECSA: AC-BC, 25 January 1968. Also: BC-LM, 25 January 1968; Minutes of Board Meeting, 2 March 1968; BC-Board, 5 February 1968; "Goodbye, Lilly Valley," GN, Winter 1999/2000, p. 8.
28. "Nudists Move to New Home," Canadian Champion, 2 July 1969; "Sunny Acres," CSAir, June-July 1962, p. 3; "Winter Wonder Land," CSAir, April 1963, pp. 12-13; "Sunny Acres Club," CSAir, April 1963, p. 15; ECSA: JP-BC, July 1969; Sunny Acres Circular, July 1969.
29. Ponderosa broschure; ECSA: "Report on Visit to Clubs," 8 September 1965; also GS-ECSA, 20 October 1965.
30. ECSA: "Report on Visit to Clubs," 8 September 1965; GS-BC, 7 September 1966; Minutes of Board Meeting, 31 July 1966; BC-GS, 9 October 1966.
31. "New Owners for Ponderosa Nature Park," GN, Spring 1988, p. 15; "Southern Ontario volleyball at its best," GN, Spring 1998, p. 16; "Live Oak takes the FCN Cup," GN, Fall 1999, p. 9; interview--Herbert (Strabane, ON); "Ponderosa changes hands," GN, Fall 2002, p. 36.
32. "Four Seasons Celebrates 25th Anniversary," GN, Summer 1994, pp. 10-11; interview--Lisa (Freelton, ON).
33. ESA: "Report on Visit to Clubs," (1969). "Second Canadian Nudist Volleyball Open at Four Seasons Nature Park," GN, Fall 1995, p. 15; "A Volleyball Welcome to Ponderosa," GN, Summer 1995, 9. 14; "Can-Am v-ball tourney is hot stuff," GN, Fall 1999, p. 9; "The Four Seasons Story," Bare in Mind, October 1973, p. 8.
34. Bare in Mind, August-September 1972, p. 52. "Four Seasons Eyes Olympics," ASA Bulletin, July 1976, p. 14.
35. "Four Seasons Celebrates," p. 11; interview--Lisa (Freelton, ON). See Paul Rimstead's column from the Toronto Sun, reprinted in Bare in Mind, August-September 1972, p. 5.
36. "Clothed 'til further notice," Vancouver Province, 19 July 1976, reprinted in Hyperion Happenings, April 1977; Letter to Editor, ASA Bulletin, May 1977, p. 5; "Miss Nude World. She Understands Reluctant Nudist," ASA Bulletin, September 1975; "Four Seasons," ASA Bulletin, November 1977, p. 12.
37. "Four Seasons Celebrates," pp. 10-11. See the "For Sale" notice in GN, Fall 2002, p. 39.
38. CSA: RW-MH, 4 April 1951; KR-BC, 12 October 1955; "Lon-Tan-Sun Club," STM, May 1955, p. 15; WP, April 1956, p. 17; Sun-Mor News, April 1959.
39. Sun-Mor-News, September 1962; "London Sun Club," CSAir, November 1962, pp. 5, 19; ECSA: EC-BC, 27 March 1963; TL-BC, 19 October 1964; Interview--Pam (Dorchester ON).
40. ECSA: Board Letter, 27 March 1965; BC-RB, 5 April 1965; Minutes of Board Meeting, 1 August 1965; interview--Pam (Dorchester, ON).
41. "Nudist camp open house leaves visitors abashed about having clothes on," London Free Press, 20 June 1971. "Resort of the Month: Summerset Naturist Park," Bare in Mind, April 1974, p. 4; interview--Pam.
42. ECSA: Minutes of Board Meeting, 8 January 1973.
43. Joseph Salek, "Glade Tidings from Canada," Modern Sunbathinq, March 1962, pp. 26-27, 38-39. Also L.B. Bower, "Crusade in Canada," Modern Sunbathinq, September 1962, pp. 12-13, 38; "Sunny Glades Nature Park," GN, Fall 1986, pp. 12-13; "The Sunny Glades environment," GN, Spring 1999, p. 9; interview-Stan (Bothwell, ON).
44. ECSA: JS-NP, 11 March 1961; NP-JS, 16 March 1961; Sun-Mor News, September 1962.
45. Salek, "Glade Tidings," p. 38; interview--Stan (Bothwell, ON). "Sunny Glades Nature Park," GN, Fall 1986, pp. 12-13; "Sunny Glades," CSAir, May 1962, pp. 4-5; Bill Petrusiak, "People from all walks of life relax at local nudist colony," Sarnia Observer, 22 August 1975.
46. "Sunny Glades Nature Park," pp. 12-13.
47. Ibid; "The Sunny Glades environment," GN, Spring 1999, p. 9; "Sunny Glades Joins the Parade," GN, Fall 1996, p. 8.
48. "Nudist Park Opens Near Glencoe," Glencoe Transcript & Free Press, 4 July 1976. Holiday Valley (promotional brochure).
49. Valley Views, July 1979. Also: September 1978; September 1979; ESA: Report on Clubs (1979).
50. Valley Views, January 1978; January 1979; April 1979. July 1979; ASA: FL-ASA, 20 August 1979; ASA Bulletin, September 1979, p. 7; ESA: Holiday Valley to All Members & Friends, 20 August 1979.
51. "Sunshine Ranch," STM, October 1958. See also "Wedding at Nudist Camp May Have Toronto Pastor," Hanover Star, 3-4 March 1956, reprinted in Sun Mor News; Sun Valley News, March 1956; "They Reap a Harvest from Sunshine," SBH, May 1958, p. 6; "Sunshine Ranch," CSAir, March 1959, p. 11; "Sunshine Ranch," CSAir, July 1959, pp. 1-2; ECSA: Victor-BC, March 1962.
52. "Cedarwood Naturist Park," The Sunshine Family; CNC: BC-JF, 26 September 1973; BC-JF, 2 August 1975; interview--Bill.
53. RP, June 1955, p. 14. "Letter (Peterborough)," STM, May 1955, p. 16; CSA: MS-TGS, 29 April 1955; MS-RC, 7 July 1955.
54. CSA: SBR-TGS, 26 August 1958. MS-RC, 7 January 1956; Sun Valley News, March 1956; "Peterborough Sun Club," STM, May 1956, pp. 18-19; STM, October 1958; "Sunny Brae," CSAir, February 1959, p. 13.
55. "Sunny Brae Ranch," CSAir, June 1959, p. 8; ibid, May 1960, p. 10; interview--Burke (Kingston).
56. CSA: AM-MG, 10 December 1950; AM-HM, 14 February 1951; AM-HM, 17 March 1951.
57. CSA: RC-TGS, 7 October 1959; ECSA: BI-BC, 13 October 1960; "New Nudist Property," December 1959, p. 11-12; "Lakesun Club," CSAir, May 1960, pp. 10-11; "Lakesun," Modern Sunbathing, June 1963, p. 33; "Lakesun--the Crown Jewel of Canadian naturist clubs," GN, Fall 1994, pp. 8-9; interview-Rosie (Glenburnie ON).
58. ECSA: BC-RH, 24 April 1962; "Lakesun Club Makes Rapid Progress," ASA Bulletin, August 1961, p. 7; "Lake+Sun=a unique Eastern Ontario club," GN, Summer 1999, pp. 6-7; Heritage Videos International, Canada Naturally, Part One.
59. "Lakesun Club: 1964 Convention Host," Sun Lore, October 1964, p. 13; "Lakesun Club" (brochure); Letter to Editor, ASA Bulletin, December 1983, p. 3; ibid, April 1984, p. 3.
60. ECSA: CF-ECSA (1963); HB-HS, 5 August 1966; HB-BC, 29 July 1965; BC-SW, 14 November 1965; Report on Visit to Clubs, 8 September 1965; "Nudism in Ontario," Sunny Gatherings, September 1965; ECSA: Lakesun Newsletter, Spring 1967; Spring 1969.
61. ECSA: BC-SW, 14 November 1965; Letter, ASA Bulletin, April 1984, p. 3. See also ECSA: HB-HS, 5 August 1966; HB-BC, 29 July 1965; "Nudism in Ontario," Sunny Gatherings, September 1965; Report on Visit to Clubs, 8 September 1965; interviews--Rosie; Don (Perth ON); Hans (Casselman, ON). See also Letter, ASA Bulletin, December 1983, p. 3.
62. "Silva Sun Club," CSAir, December 1959, pp. 9-10; "The Silva Sun Story," January 1960, pp. 8-10; ibid, February 1960, pp. 12-13; ibid, March 1960, p. 11-12; "Silva Sun Club," JanuaryFebruary 1961, p. 9; interview--Don (Perth, ON).
63. FCN: SilvaSun Bulletin, 1960-1967 passim; interviews--Don, Howard (Casselman and Merrickville, ON)),
Chapter Seven
l. ST, June 1948, p. 12; RP, August 1957, p. 7. Also: RP, October 1948, p. 23; Letter (Club Amis du Soleil), SBH, May 1945, p. 32; CSA: JG-DN, 12 April 1949.
2. CSA: GC-DN, 23 March 1949; AD-RC, 6 July 1949; JG-RC, 7 October 1949; "Heleos Club," STM, April 1949, pp. 9-10.
3. CSA: AD-RC, 6 July 1949. ST, March 1949, pp. 10-11; "Heleos Club," STM, April 1949, pp. 9-10.
4. CSA: AD-RC, undated (December 1948); MP-RC, 4 December 1948; GC-RC, 30 January 1949.
5. CSA: JO-CSA, 19 September 1949. Also CSA: J & E-STM, 18 October 1949; RC-MW, 18 November 1955; ST, March 1949, pp. 1011; "Montreal 'Quetans' Purchase Campsite," STM, November 1949, pp. 12-13; "Heleos Health Club Reports from Montreal," SBH, September 1949, pp. 26-27; "Heleos Health Resort," STM, March 1950, pp. 10-11.
6. "The Quetans," SH, December 1948, p. 29; CSA: GC-RC, 7 December 1948; 30 January 1949; GF-RC, 8 November 1948; 19 November 1948; GC-RC, 9 February 1949; 10 February 1949; BB-RC, 8 February 1949; "La Gymnosophie au Canada Frangais," Vivre d'Abord, May-June 1949, p. 30.
7. CSA: JL-WK, 18 October 1949. CSA: GC-RC, 30 January 1949; 9 February 1949; MM-RC, 2 December 1949; RH-MM, 18 January 1950; "Pineacres," SH, December 1949, p. 25; "Canada," Natural Living, August 1951, p. 10.
8. CSA: GF-RC, 11 December 1948; GC-DN, 4 November 1949; interviews--George (Milton, VT); Reg, Angel (Kissimmee, FL).
9. CSA: GC-RC, 9 June 1949; AD-RC, 6 July 1949. Also: CSA: AD-RC, 27 March 1949; GC-RC, 30 January 1949; GC-DN, 23 March 1949; 14 January 1950; 6 July 1949; CSA: GC-RC, 20 March 1951; RC-MW, 18 November 1955; "The Montreal 'Quetans'," SH, October 1949, p. 25.
10. CSA: GC-RC, 10 May 1949. Also JG-RC, 29 April 1949; GC-DN, 16 April 1949.
11. CSA: RC-GC, undated (Spring 1949).
12. CSA: GC-RC, 30 July 1949; GC-RC, 6 July 1949; GC-RC, 29 November 1949; Quetans Newsletter, 22 June 1949; Quetans Circular, Summer 1949.
13. CSA: GF-MM, 28 November 1949; GC-RC & MM, 8 February 1950.
14. CSA: FS-MM, 24 January 1950; GC-RC and MM, 4 February 1950; Quetans Circular, 22 June 1949; FS-MM, 24 January 1950; GC-RC & MM, 10 February 1950.
15. Quetans Circular, 6 December 1950; CSA: GC-RC, 14 January 1950. Also: GF-MM, 28 November 1949; GF-RC & MM, 10 February 1950; GC-FS, 8 February 1950; GF-GC, 17 December 1949.
16. CSA: MM-DN, 10 December 1949; GC-RC & MM, 10 February 1950; GC-HM, 9 March 1951.
17. CSA: HB & LB-GE, 8 August 1951; MM, marginal note on GC-RC, 24 November 1949.
18. CSA: GF-RC, 4 December 1949; HB & LB-GE, 8 August 1951; Quetans Circular, 6 December 1949; GC-HM, 3 July 1951; GE-RC, 9 February 1949.
19. CSA: GC-RC & MM, 10 February 1950; FS-MM, 24 January 1950; GC-HM, 3 July 1951; GF-MM, 28 November 1949. Also: MM-FS, 22 November 1949; MM-DN, 10 December 1949; MM-RC, 9 December 1949; RC-MW, 18 November 1955.
20. CSA: GC-RC & MM, 10 February 1950; FS-MM, 24 January 1950; AD-RC, 6 July 1949.
21. CSA: GC-MM, 25 November 1949; "Eastern Director Considers Sunny Trails Vital Instrument in Growth of Canadian Nudism," STM, October 1950, pp. 7-9.
22. Interview--Noel (Montreal); "La Gymnosophie au Canada Frangais," Vivre d'Abord, May-June 1949, p. 30.
23. "Quetans Purchase Campsite," SH, December 1949, p. 28; "Montreal 'Quetans' Announce Temporary Pause in Recruiting Activities," SH December 1950, p. 23; "Quetans," SBH, January 1951, p. 27; interview--Noel (Montreal); Reg and Angel (Kissimmee, FL).
24. ST, December 1951, pp. 8-9; "The Story of the Raid," SH, October 1951, p. 3; "The Quetans Raided," SH, October 1951, p. 2; "Two Couples Caught by Police in Raid on Nudist Club's Farm," Montreal Gazette, 31 July 1951; "Couples Face Nudism Trial--Provincials Raid Camp near St. Jerome," Montreal Star, 30 July 1951.
25. "The Montreal Quetans," SH, September 1950, pp. 34-35; "The Gaetans," SH, February 1952, p. 11. Also: CSA: HB & LB-GE, 8 August 1951; "Odour in Quebec," STM, November 1952, p. 15.
26. ST, December 1951, p. 8.
27. "The Quetans Raided!," SH, October 1951, p. 2; CSA: GC-RC, 12 August 1951; Minutes of Board Meeting, 24 August 1951; Quetans Newsletter, 30 October 1951. Also: CSA: Minutes of 1951 Convention, 11 August 1951; "The Story of the Raid," SH, October 1951, p. 3.
28. ST, December 1951, p. 8. "The Quetans Raided!", SH, October 1951, p. 2; CSA: GC-RC, 12 August 1951; Quetans Newsletter, 30 October 1951; November 1951; "Gaetan Couture to File an Appeal," SH, February 1952, p. 31; "The Trial of Gaetan Couture," American Nudist Leader, March-April 1952, pp. 10-11.
29. Quetans Newsletter, 20 May 1952. Quetans Newsletter, 3 June 1952; "Nudism Charge Fails in Appeal," Montreal Star, 4 June 1952.
30. CSA: Minutes of Board Meeting, 24 August 1951; GC-CSA, November 1951.
31. CSA: GE-GC, undated (January 1952); Quetans Newsletter, 11 February 1952; GC-CSA, 17 March 1952; GF-GE, 9 April 1952; 27 March 1952.
32. CSA: RC-GF, 20 April 1952; GC-CSA, 17 March 1952; Quetans Newsletter, 11 February 1952; Quetans Newsletter, 27 March 1952.
33. CSA: RC-GF, 26 April 1952; "Postal Action Threatens," STM, May 1952, p. 14; "Quetans Charge Denied," STM, May 1952, pp. 1415.
34. CSA: SR-GE & EE, 7 April 1952; Quetans Circular, 27 March 1952.
35. CSA: GC-CSA, 26 April 1952; Quetans Newsletter, 1 May 1952.
36. Quetans Newsletter, 23 May 1952; "President's Message," STM, July 1952, p. 2.
37. Quetans Newsletter, 28 July 1952.
38. CSA: GE-MS, 4 August 1952; RC-MS, 6 August 1952; "Civil or Criminal an Option," Bare in Mind, February 1975, p. 5.
39. CSA: MM-RC, 13 December 1955. See also Alain Stanke, PAX: Lutte a finir contre la pegre. Une portrait-robot du celebre incorruptible Pacifiaue Plante. (Montreal: La Presse, 1972).
40. ST, December 1957, p. 8; CSA: GC-RC & MM, 11 February 1950. RC-MW, 18 November 1955; "Notes from the Editor's Basket," STM, July 1955, p. 2; MM-FS, 9 December 1949.
41. "More News of Gaetan Couture," STM, March 1958, p. 5; Couture Circular to "Very Dear Friends," 11 December 1955; 15 November 1957.
42. Couture Circular, 15 November 1957; Letter, STM, January 1958, p. 16; "More News of Gaetan Couture," STM, March 1958, pp. 25; "FLASH: Gaetan Couture Sentenced," STM, May 1958, p. 16.
43. CSA: GC-Naturist Friends of the CSA, 19 November 1949; Quetans Newsletter, 1 September 1952 (Second Edition); CSA: GC-CSA, 28 September 1952.
44. RP, March 1958, p. 15; "Another Club in Quebec?," STM, February 1956, p. 19; RP, March 1955, pp. 14-15; CSA: JM-JC, 5 December 1958.
45. CSA: RC-MW, 18 November 1955; EHSC: GC-MW, 16 March 1971.
Chapter Eight
1. Dale Thomson, Jean Lesage and the Quiet Revolution. (Toronto: Macmillan, 1984), p. 409; Leon Dion, Quebec: The Unfinished Revolution. (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 1976), p. 196; Herbert Quinn, The Union Nationale from Duplessis to Levesque. 2 ed. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1979), pp. 190-191.
2. ECSA: JG & YG-BC, 29 March 1961. Also: FV-ECSA, 5 September 1967.
3. "Nudists Are Nice--Dressed Up," Vermont Sunday News, 15 June 1958; American Sunbather & Nudist Leader, November 1955, p. 21; "Montreal Recreation Club," STM, July 1955, pp. 10-11.
4. "Montreal Recreation Club," STM, July 1955, pp. 10-11; CSA: GF-RC, 26 July 1955.
5. CSA: AT-RC, 7 July 1955; AT-NP, 20 June 1955; RC-GF, 11 June 1956; RC-GF, 10 April 1956.
6. "Milton Drops Calm over Nudist Colony," Burlington Free Press, 8 June 1958.
7. "Nudists Can Stay If They Behave," Vermont Sunday News, 8 June 1958.
8. ANRL: Forest City Lodge, "ASA Memorandum," 30 January 1959; GF-JC, 16 February 1959.
9. "Milton Representative Reverses Stand on Nudist Colony Bill," Burlington Daily News, 28 January 1959; ANRL: Forest City Lodge, JC-GF, 28 January 1959; JC-GF, 10 February 1959.
10. "Legislator Sees Victory for Foes of Nudism in Vt.," Burlington Free Press, 9 February 1959; ANRL: Forest City Lodge: undated pamphlet (Winter 1959).
11. ANRL: FCL: JC-NP, 16 February 1959; 18 February 1959.
12. ANRL: FCL: "ASA Special Report to the President and Board of Trustees from the Executive Director," 16 March 1959; JC-NP, 2 February 1959; 6 March 1959; 10 March 1959.
13. "Vermont Anti-Nudist Bill Defeated," CSAir, June 1959, p. 14; ANRL: Forest City Lodge: "ASA Special Report," 16 March 1959.
14. ANRL: FCL: JC-RH, 3 May 1963.
15. "Forest City Written Up," ASA Bulletin, March 1976, p. 13. Also: Christopher W. Closs et al, Look Around Colchester and Milton, Vermont, Lilian Baker Carlisle, editor (Burlington: Chittenden County Historical Society, 1975); interview--George (Milton, VT).
16. ESA: Maple Glen: JR-ESA (1967).
17. Maple Gleaner, December 1967; interview--Morris (Montreal).
18. Interview--Morris (Montreal). ESA: Maple Glen: FE-ASA & ESA, 9 September 1970; ASA Trustee Report on Clubs (undated); "Maple Glen," ASA Bulletin, May 1978, p. 12; May 1979, p. 5; September 1979, p. 7.
19. CSA: RC-MW, 31 October 1955; 18 November 1955; RC-GF, 10 April 1956.
20. EHSC: LP-MW, 3 January 1957. CSA: EHSC-ASA, 4 September 1956; "East Haven Club," STM, April 1957, pp. 23-24.
21. CSA: AQ-RC, 6 December 1960; ECSA: AC-MW, 2 June 1965.
22. CSA: MW-BC, 8 December 1958; "East Haven Sun Club," STM, December 1958-January 1959, p. 15; ECSA: RL-RH, 23 April 1961; MW-BC, 8 December 1960.
23. Interview--Max (Casselman, ON). See EHSC: MW-Magistrat, Original-Hawkesbury, 3 April 1966; MW-OHC, 9 April 1966; EHSC-OMB, 16 September 1966; MW-OMA. 30 April 1966; MW-BC, 5 June 1968.
24. Obituary, GN, Summer 1994, p. 2. "East Haven Sun Club," CSAir, November 1959, p. 8; ibid, May 1962, p. 9; interview-Pete (Casselman, ON); "NUDEvelopments," GN, Winter 1998-99, p. 17.
25. ECSA: HM-ECSA, 15 August 1966; JM-ECSA, 6 August 1969; Romeo Johnson, "Club Bel Air," ASA Bulletin, June 1975, p. 11; "Pour une journee des nudistes tout habilles," NdQ, 19 June-3 July 1977, p. 14; "Le Club Bel-Air attend les nudistes," NdQ, 21 May 1978, p. 10; FQN: Minutes of Board Meeting, 17 July 1986; telephone conversation--Louis-Philippe.
26. ECSA: MW-FE, 20 December 1971; FE-MW, 28 December 1971. "Reportage Special: La Domaine Naturiste du Quebec, d'hier a aujourd'hui," Au Naturel (CNRB) 1-3-1979; "Domaine Naturiste du Quebec," Au Naturel, 5-2-1983; interview--Richard & Odette (St. Eugene, ON).
27. ECSA: JM-ASA, December 1971; "Domaine Naturiste du Quebec," Au
29. Au Naturel, 1-1-1979; interview--Richard and Odette.
30. Au Naturel, 1-1-1979; 1-4-1979.
31. Au Naturel, 6-1-1984; 6-3-1984; 1-2-1979; Le Droit, 22 August 1988; interview--Richard & Odette.
32. "Le Club AnnYvon," NdQ, 28 August-11 September 1977, p. 18; Interviews--Max (Casselman), Gerard (Plantagenet, ON).
33. ECSA: NL-ECSA, 27 March 1969; telephone conversation-Bob (Montreal).
34. "Non! Les hommes ne sont pas encore chasses du Paradis Terrestre," Journal de Montreal, 2 September 1971; "Premier camp de nudistes. Pour penetrer dans le 'Paradis Terrestre': une famille et $100," Journal de Montreal, 26 September 1971.
35. "Premier camp de nudistes. Pour penetrer dans le 'Paradis Terrestre': une famille et $100," Journal de Montreal, 26 September 1971. ECSA: NL-ECSA, 27 March 1969; CS-ECSA, 14 February 1970; Francois Huot, "Changer le Peau," Loisirs Plus, March 1977, p. 27; "Paradise Terrestre," ASA Bulletin, June 1975, p. 11; June 1976, p. 12; "Les Boys Scouts font place au Nudisme!," Paradis Terrestre (1981); interviews--Noel; Gerard.
36. ESA: Paradis Terrestre, 15 October 1985; Interviews--Michel (1988); Gerard (1989).
37. Letter, JB-Author, 18 February 1990; Laurentien ad, Bare in Mind, April 1974; interviews--Noel; Morris: telephone conversation--Bob.
38. "Chez Elmen et Francine Tremblay au Lac Masson, ete de liberte et de nudisme," NdQ, 6-19 June 1976, p. 6; "Domain Naturiste Adam & Eve," ASA Bulletin, December 1976, p. 6; "Programme d'ete chez Adam et Eve (Lac Masson)," NdQ, 10-24 April 1977; "Des Soupers Gratuits pour les Membres du Domaine Adam et Eve (Lac Masson) , " NdQ, 5-19 June 1977; "Pour la premiere fois, un club nudiste accepte hommes et femmes seuls," NdQ, 25 September--9 October 1977, p. 5; interviews--Michel; Noel.
39. "Club Oasis," ASA Bulletin, August 1975, p. 9; ibid, June 1976, p. 12; ibid, December 1977, p. 12; "A 1'Oasis: des surprises et un ete nudiste fait sur mesure," NdQ, 28 August11 September 1977, p. 10; "Le bel ete qu'on a passe a 1'Oasis," NdQ, 11-25 September 1977, p. 6; "A L'Oasis: du Theatre tout neuf et un Assortiment de nouveautes," NdQ, 29 January-12 February 1978, p. 10; "L'Oasis," AN, Spring 1983, p. 6; interviews--Michel, Noel.
40. "Eden des Nudistes," NdQ, 28 August-11 September 1977, p. 6; "Un motel a 1'Eden des Nudistes," NdQ, 11-25 September 1977; "Le Royaume de l'Eden: le plus luxueux et le plus vaste club nudiste au Canada," NdQ, 2-26 [24 April-8 May 1977]; "Le Royaume de 1'Eden: Le plus vaste Complexe Nudiste Nod [sic] Americain," NdQ, 9-23 May 1977, p. 2; "Deux incendiares ont peri dans l'explosion du Royaume de 1'Eden," Journal de Montreal, 28 November 1984; ASA Bulletin, January 1975, p. 10; interviews--Noel, Michel, David, Vittorio, Royal (Montreal); Albert (Orleans ON).
41. "Vallee Rustique--2 Years old," ASA Bulletin, March 1976, p. 14; "Vallee Rustique," November 1977, p. 14; "Un bel ete nudiste s'annonce a La Vallee Rustique," NdQ, 23 May-6 June 1977; ''La Vallee Rustique,' le club ou it faut aller cet ete," NdQ, 13-27 March 1977, p. 7; FQN: Vallee Rustique; Eric Clement, "Le sale temps fait la fortune des salons de bronzage--et ne derange pas les naturistes," La Presse, 2 August 1992.
42. Interviews--Jean-Marcel, Michel (Montreal).
43. Michel Vaïs, "Sondage"; Pommerie: Le Trait d'Union (1987).
44. Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska, "Les ghettos du soleil," Actualite, July 1978, p. 16; "La Pommerie vendue a des amoureux de la nature," AN, Summer 1995, p. 13.
45. Advertisement in NdQ, 24 September 1985; Frangois Dowd, "Les clubs nudistes sont pour les 'swingers'," Photo-Police, 6-13 August 1988. See also "De partout on vient s'amuser au camp de nudistes de Ste-Brigitte-des-Saults, Comte Nicolet," NdQ, 6-19 juin 1976; "Du nouveau au Club Adam et Eve de SteBrigitte-des-Saults," NdQ, Vol. 2 No. 26 (1977) ; "Le Roi et la Reine du Club Adam et Eve," NdQ, 31 July-4 August 1977; "Miss Quebec Nue: les 22 et 23 juillet au Club Adam et Eve," NdQ, 418 December 1977; "Nanou, originaire de France, gagne le concours Miss Quebec Nue," NdQ, 1-15 January 1978; interview-Michel.
46. "Loisirs Air Soleil" NdQ, 18 December 1977-1 January 1978, p. 3; "Camp de plein air et de naturisme a St. Cyrille: un projet de 2.8 millions $," La Tribune, 8 October 1985; "Le Club Naturiste Loisirs-Air-Soleil: comme si le Bon Dieu l'avait voulu aussi," La Tribune, 13 October 1985; "The Golden Sands of Air Soleil," Naturally, Spring 1994, pp. 25-26; interview-Albert (Orleans, ON).
47. Interviews--Albert, Michel.
48. Interviews--Michel, Albert.
49. ECSA: PF-ECSA, 7 October 1969; FCN: MF & PF-PS, 7 March 1987; Echo, May 1992, p. 3; interviews--Michel, Albert.
50. "Nouveau Club Nudiste en Abitibi," NdQ, 31 July-14 August 1977, p. 14; FQN: "Les Amis de la Nature" (brochure); interviews--Albert, Gerard.
51. "Jupiter Sunshine Gardens," ASA Bulletin, November 1978, p. 10; "All Florida Days: JSG," ASA Bulletin, February 1979, pp. 11-12; "Combien Coutent des Vacances Nudistes en Floride?", NdQ, 4-18 December 1977, p. 17; "Jupiter Sunshine Gardens," Natural Life, Fall 1977, pp. 8-9; "Jupiter Sunshine Gardens," ASA Bulletin, February 1976, p. 10; "Jupiter Sunshine Gardens," February 1979, pp. 1112; interview--Bruno (Kissimmee, FL).
52. "Les Clubs," Les Informations Naturistes Ouebecoises, summer 1980, p. 1; "Nouvelles de la Federation," ibid,Summer 1981, p. 2; "Les ghettos du soleil," Actualite, July 1978, p. 15; Interviews--Richard & Odette; Jean-Marcel (Montreal).
53. "Quebec Clubs Meet Together," ASA Bulletin, June 1976, p. 13; "Quebec Clubs Agree to Unite," ASA Bulletin, February 1977, p. 1; "New naturist association forming," GN, Summer 1998, p. 9.
54. ASA Bulletin, December 1977, p. 12; "Ils ont decide de jouer nus," NdQ, 6-20 November 1977.
55. "Les activites a 1'Oasis," NdQ, 17-31 July 1977, p. 6.
56. "Les proprietaires veulent-ils une association constructive?," NdQ, November 1977. See: "Comment Coutent des Vacances Nudistes en Floride?," NdQ, 4-18 December 1977, p. 17; "Les ghettos du soleil," Actualite, July 1978, p. 19; "Ste. Brigitte des Saults," NdQ 27 February-13 March 1977, p. 6. For examples of some questionable stories see NdQ, Vol.2, Numbers 17, 18, 22; Vol.3, Number 12.
57. Jean-Marc Provost, "LES CLUBS NATURISTES: Nudisme ou grossiere indecence faite aux enfants?", Photo-Police, 6 May 1994, pp. 10-11.
58. "Nouvelles Breves," Les Informations, October 1979, p. 6; "Un troisieme Y.M.C.A. accueille les naturistes," AN, Spring 1986, p. 32; "Les Regions," AN, Winter 1987, p. 11; Letter, AN, Spring 1988, p. 5; interview--Michel.
59. "Nude volleyball? the 'Y' bares it," Montreal Daily News, 27 July 1988. Also "Activites Automne 90," AN, Fall-Winter 1990, p. 3; Michel Benoit, "D'une bande de tout nus," Journal de Montreal, 3 February 1991, reprinted in AN, Spring 1991, p. 11; interview--Michel.
60. FQN: Report of Quebec Chapter, 1986; "Les regions," AN, Spring 1985, p. 22.
61. "Les regions," AN, Spring 1985, p. 21; FQN: VP-FQN, 9 August 1987.
62. Les regions," AN, Spring 1985, p. 21; ibid, Winter 1986, p. 18; ibid, Spring 1986, p. 30; ibid, Fall 1986, p. 1; ibid, Winter 1987, pp. 10-11; FQN: IRS-FQN, 29 August 1984; JP-FQN, 16 November 1986.
63. "Une section toute jeune," AN, Winter 1982, p. 13; "Decisions du C.A.," AN, Spring 1987, p. 12; "Calendrier des activites de 1'AMI pour gens seuls," AN, Summer 1993, p. 6; "Calendrier des activites canot-camping," AN, p. 7; "Tourisme," AN, Summer 1994, pp. 16-17; "Calendrier naturiste quebecois Printempsete," AN, Summer 1991, p. 28; L'AMI, c'est parti!," AN, Spring-Summer 1992, p. 23.
64. "Quebec Perspectives," GN, Summer 1987, p. 8. Huot, "Changer le Peau," Loisirs Plus, March 1977, p. 28; "Les ghettos du soleil," Actualite, July 1978, p. 13; interviews--Richard & Odette; David.
Chapter Nine
1. CSA: RN-RC, March 1949; Lee Baxandall, World Guide to Nude Beaches (Oshkosh, WI: Nude Editions, 1991), p. 117; interviews--Ernie, Leon (1989).
2. World Guide to Nude Beaches and Recreation, pp. 110, 115; "Canada Updates," Nude & Natural, 12-4-1993, p. 25.
3. "Cruising a British Columbia Fjord," H&E, June 1936, p. 196; "Nude Bathing Banned at Brunswick Beach," GN, Summer 1992, p. 15; "Reprieve for the Brunswick Beach Bares," p. 10.
4. World Guide, pp. 110-115; Nude & Natural, 12-4-1993, p. 25.
5. Charles Clay, "Mrs. Grundy in Canada," The Nudist, April 1939, p. 23.
6. "Canada Speaks," SH, July 1947, p. 18; ST, June 1947, p. 10.
7. John Masters, "Bare encounters with the sun-worshipping set," Macleans, 31 August 1981, pp. 12-13; "Nude Wreck Beach: Its Survival is no Accident!", Clothed with the Sun, 6-1-1986, pp. 62-63.
8. Masters, "Wreck Beach;" "Nine Years of Wreck Beach," Hyperion Happenings, January-February 1979; "One of 'the Nude 13' Convicted," Georgia Straight, 23-30 September 1970, p. 7; Meadowlark, February 1971, p. 7; "Ontario: Can Nude Mounties Get Their Man?," CNN, June 1984.
9. Paul Manning, "Gawkers flock to view Nude-In," Vancouver Province, 24 August 1970; Jim Davies, "3,000 cast their eyes on nude-in," Vancouver Sun, 24 August 1979; "Wreck Beach," Georgia Straight, 12-19 August 1970; ibid, 26 August-2 September 1970, pp. 2-3; "Nine Years of Wreck Beach," Hyperion Happenings, January-February 1979, pp. 3-4.
10. "Nine Years of Wreck Beach," pp. 3-4; "Wreck Beach Survives Crusade," Hyperion Happenings, September-October 1977, p. 7; Ros Oberlyn, "Barely Anybody Around for Gerard's March," Vancouver Sun, 11 July 1977; "Wreck Beach in Peril," GN, Summer 1990, p. 4.
11. "Nudists Told not to Stray," in Hyperion Happenings, May 1978, p. 4; Glen Schaefer, "Law turns blind eye to skinny dipping," Vancouver Province, 26 August 1990; WBPS: HY-JW, 21 November 1990.
12. Masters, "Wreck Beach;" Daniel Wood, "Naked in Paradise," Vancouver Magazine, June 1991, p. 42.
13. Marion Boyd, "Tranquil Life in the Nude," Vancouver Sunday News Livinq, 20 September 1981; Jim Davies, "3,000 cast their eyes on nude-in," Vancouver Sun, 24 August 1970; Daniel Wood, "Naked in Paradise," p. 42.
14. Karen Gram, "Nudists Drawn to Hilltop Club in all Seasons," Vancouver Sun, 14 June 1989; Marion Boyd, "Tranquil Life in the Nude;" Shauna Hardy, "A wrecked beach," British Columbia Report, 3 September 1990, pp. 15-16; Rebecca Burnham, "Death, drugs and nudity," ibid, 25 March 1991; "Beer-Pouring Mounties Crack Down on Wreck Beach Drink Vendors," Vancouver Sun, 24 August 1994.
15. FCN: WBPS, "Recommendation to GVRD Park Committee," 16 May 1990; LB-MS, 22 February 1991; ASA-MS, 26 February 1991; INFCanadian Ambassador, Brussels, 5 September 1990; GVRD Park Committee, Staff Report, 16 May 1990; "Naturist Solidarity wins the day--and Wreck Beach," GN, Fall 1991, pp. 4-5; Wynn Horn, "Wreck boundaries pass review unscathed," Vancouver Sun, 17 October 1991, reprinted in GN, Fall 1991, p. 6.
16. Bare in Mind; Interviews--Harry, Don.
17. "A new kind of nudist park opens in Canada," Bare in Mind. March 1973, p. 1.
18. "A new kind of nudist park opens in Canada," Bare in Mind, March 1973, p. 1; CNC: HB-JF, 12 December 1975.
19. CNC: HB-CNC, 12 December 1975; interviews--Don, Lee; telephone conversation, George (Edmonton).
20. Ric Dolphin & Eric Reguly, "A bare bum beach flop," Alberta Report, 11 July 1983, p. 25; "Nude Beach: Some Cheek," Red Deer Advocate, 13 June 1983.
21. WCSA: RI-MK, 17 October 1983; "Canada Updates," Clothed with the Sun, 1985, p. 75. Anita Elash, "The bare facts," Calgary Sun, 31 July 1983; Larry Tucker, "Wearing nothing but his notepad," Edmonton Sun, 29 July 1984; "Bare bum beach flop," p. 25.
22. "Regina v. Benolkin et al.", Canadian Criminal Cases, 36 C.C.C. (2d), p. 207; "Prairie Suns Nudist Club: Bare Ass Beach," GN, Fall 2001, p. 15-16.
23. "Naturism gave me health at 55," H&E, November 1938, p. 400; "Miss Lonelyhearts," Winnipeg Sun, 25 July 1989.
24. "The piping plover has friends, but Beaconia beach widens," GN, Spring 1999, pp. 14-15; see also "NUDEvelopments," GN, Fall 1998, p. 5; ibid, Winter 1998-99, p. 5; ibid, Fall 1999, p. 5.
25. Editorial, Globe & Mail, 16 August 1972; ECSA: LB-JF, 5 September 1972.
26. RP, SBH, January 1948, pp. 18-19; CSA: RN-RC, 17 May 1949; FMBC, 1 August 1955. FM-ET & MT, 24 April 1957; interview--Eddy.
27. CSA: FM-BC, 1 August 1955; FCN: RS-LB, 14 May 1990; "Nudists cool off at secluded beach while residents get hot under collar," Toronto Star, 13 August 1987.
28. "Hanlan's Beach is renude: major gain for Canadian naturism," GN, Summer 1999, pp. 16-17, 22. On the 2000 renewal and the success of the beach see: <<www.fcn.ca/media/PR4.html>> and, for a reporter's viewpoint, Catherine Porter, "The naked truth about nude beaches," TorStar Special Report, reprinted online: <<www.torstarreports.com>>
29. "Free Beaches for Canada?", Canadian Nudist Profile.
30. "Proposal for Nude Bathing Given Kent Tourist Group," Chatham Daily News, 2 April 1976; "Nudist Beach for Kent?", Wallaceburg Courier-Press, 7 April 1976; "Wow: Skinny Dipping," Chatham Daily News, 28 May 1976; "Harwick Township Surveyed for Nudist Beach Sites," Windsor Star, 1 June 1976; "Who will have last laugh? nudist beach for Kent still considered possible?", Wallaceburg Courier-Press, 2 June 1976; interviews--Edith (Mission BC), Stan (Bothwell ON).
31. Letter to Editor, Chatham Daily News, 28 May 1976; Editorial, Sarnia Observer, 12 April 1976.
32. Sunny Glades: WG-VP, 16 September 1971. Letter, JK-KR, Sun Valley News, March 1960.
33. "Like the sun? Better wear a bathing suit," Windsor Star, 24 July 1985; "Nudists still plague Pt. Pelee beaches," Windsor Star, 17 July 1986. "Canada Updates," Nude & Natural, 12-4 (1993), p. 27; interview--Vincent (Gatineau).
34. RP, January 1948, pp. 18-19; RP, September 1957, p. 14; RP, March 1956, p. 21; "Ontario canuding?," GN, Winter 1988, p. 14.
35. "A naturist is born," GN, Winter 1989, p. 15.
36. RP, July 1951, pp. 19-20; "Touring with Nature in Charming Georgian Bay, SH, December 1943, pp. 2-5; "Nudist Cruise," STM, July 1957, p. 30; RP, July 1957, p. 33; "To start a nudist club," GN, Winter 1992, p. 14; interview--Keith (London ON).
37. Interview--Howard (1993). On the dangers of swimming in the company of sunfish see: Letter, GN, Spring 1994, p. 17.
38. "NCC opts to keep bares on short leash," Ottawa Citizen, 19 June 1984; "Le point sur le lac Meech," AN, Winter 1985, p. 23; "Nudity has a place in Ottawa for those willing to take a hike," London Free Press, 20 June 1984; "Attention aux nudistes," La Presse, 20 June 1984.
39. FQN: KH-FQN (1985).
40. FQN: Stenographic Report (1985); "Nudist can't be charged under NCC statute, judge rules," Ottawa Citizen, 10 January 1985; "Un naturiste fait face a la justice," AN, Spring 1985, pp. 17-18; Interview--Kevin (Casselman, ON).
41. Editorial, Ottawa Citizen, 17 April 1986; FQN: NCC-VP, 24 June 1986.
42. "Nudists to bare soul to NCC," Ottawa Citizen, 13 February 1999 (with thanks to my colleague George Kerr for this reference). See also "The evolution of the Meech Lake area," GN, Summer 1999, pp. 14-15; "Bare Facts," GN, p. 5.
43. "Remember When--a look back in time," AANR Bulletin, 2002; "Oui, le nudisme existait au Quebec en 1947," NdQ, Vol. 5, No. 9 (1979), p. 4; "Naturism et canot-camping," AN, Spring-Summer 1987, pp. 25-26.
44. "Orgie Sexuelle ou Bain de Soleil--interrompu?," Journal de Ouebec, 28 June 1973; "Le Ministre de la Justice: une Attention Toute Particuliere," ibid; see also the Journal de l'Ile des Soeurs, 21 August 1986; and Letter to Editor, Le Devoir, reprinted in Au Naturel, Winter 1985, p. 10.
45. FQN: Report from Saguenay-Lac St. Jean Region, 18 May 1982; "Tous a la Pointe-Taillon cet ete!" Au Naturel, Spring 1982, pp. 3-5.
46. "Au Lac St. Jean: une plage gouvernementale reserve pour les nudistes," Journal de Ouebec, 10 August 1982; "Quebec Perspectives," GN, Summer 1987, p. 8.
47. "Plage de Pointe Taillon: 4000 naturistes iront cet ete," Progres-Dimanche, 17 July 1983; "Au Lac-Saint-Jean: Une Collaboration Exemplaire," AN, Fall 1984, p. 15; "Petit guide du Quebec naturiste," Spring 1985, p. 10.
48. Ibid; "La pointe Taillon, Un Delta Interieur a Conserver," Le Sagamen, Vol. 5 No. 10 (1985), p. 25.
49. FQN: Report of Meeting with Ministry of Recreation, Jonquiere, 16 April 1987; "La plage de la Pointe-Taillon, toujours ouverte!," AN, Summer 1991, p. 5.
50. Letters from the Director of Paul Sauve Park to the FQN and from the FQN to Jean Chretien, Minister of Justice, reprinted in "Courrier," AN, Fall 1982, p. 9; FQN: Brief, reprinted as "Memoire presente par la Federation quebecoise de Naturisme au Ministre du loisir . . . pour la reconnaissance dune plage naturiste au parc Paul Sauve, a Oka," AN, Winter 1983, pp. 35; "Un ministre fait echo a nos demandes," ibid, p. 6.
51. Andrew McIntosh, "Nudist beach in provincial park turns bathers brown, others red," Montreal Gazette, 16 July 1984; Letter, AN, Fall 1987, p. 3; "Nouveau site naturiste pres de Sherbrooke," AN, Spring 1988, p. 6; "La plage a nu," Le Devoir, 11 August 1993; interview--David (Montreal).
52. "Club de vacances ouvert au nudisme," La Tribune, 25 July 1985; Letter, AN, Spring 1986, p. 6; "Camp de nudistes: plaintes a la SQ," La Tribune, 3 July 1986; "Les nudistes prets a lutter jusqu'au bout," 4 July 1986; "Le locataire ignorait la pratique de nudisme," 8 July 1986; "C'est la guerre aux Nudistes!," Allo Police, 20 July 1986.
53. "Le CP ne veut pas de nudistes sur sa plage," La Presse, 14 July 1986; see also the continuing reports in the local Sherbrooke paper La Tribune from 16-18 July 1986; and "Nouveau site naturiste," AN, Spring 1988, p. 6; interview--David (Montreal).
54. RP, September 1955, p. 14; Letter, GN, Winter 1993, p. 18; "A free beach in New Brunswick?," GN, Fall 1987, p. 13; "PEI's Naturist Beach," GN, Spring 1993, p. 15; "Kelly's Beach and 'official sanction'," GN, Winter 1998-99, p. 23.
55. "Nude bathers want day in the sun," Toronto Star, 12 August 1990; "Canada Updates," Clothed with the Sun, Summer 1984, p. 72; Jim Meek, "Crime & punishment on a distant beach," Halifax Chronicle-Herald, 7 August 1990, reprinted in GN, Summer 1990, p. 13; "Crisis at Crystal Crescent Beach," GN, Summer 1990, p. 12; FCN: FCN-Premier of Nova Scotia, 10 September 1990; INF-Canadian Ambassador, Brussels, 5 September 1990; Clothed with the Sun, 12-4-1993, p. 31; "Saving Crystal Crescent Beach," GN, Spring 1998, pp. 18-19.
Chapter Ten
1. CSA: RC-IB, 15 July 1946; "The Time Has Come," STM, October 1947, p. 1. Also: RC-ASA, 26 May 1946; "Past, Present, Future," STM, August 1947, p. 2; "Time to Organize," STM, September 1947, p. 1.
2. "The Time Has Come," STM, October 1947, p. 1; CSA: Constitution of the Canadian Sunbathing Association.
3. CSA: Minutes of CSA Convention, 18 October 1947; "The Time Has Come," STM, October 1947, p. 1; November 1947; "Canada Speaks," SH, February 1948, p. 23.
4. CSA: RC-IB, Letter reprinted in "Canada Speaks," SH, December 1947, p. 20. See Constitution, Articles 3, 4, 6, 9, 5, 12, 11, and 7, respectively; ST, December 1947, p. 11.
5. "C.S.A. Membership Fees Due Now," STM, March 1952, pp. 2, 11; CSA: RC-RN & DL, 7 January 1953.
6. CSA: RC-NP, 9 November 1955;; "Exhibition Booth a Huge Success," STM, December 1956, pp. 26-28; Van Tan Call, quoted in American Nudist Leader, December 1956; RP, February 1957, p. 14.
7. "Nudism's First Professional Color Movie," American Nudist Leader, Issues 34, 35.
8. ST, October 1954, p. 8.
9. CSA: WB-NP, 6 July 1955; "President's Message," STM, August 1954, p. 6; CSA: RC-CFC, 21 July 1955; 20 September 1955; RC-WB, 17 January 1956; Sunny Gatherings, Spring 1956; April 1957; Sun Valley News, February 1958; March 1958; STC: Minutes of Board Meeting, 4 November 1960.
10. CSA: Constitution, Aims and Objects. RN-DN, 24 February 1949; RN-RC, 5 March 1949.
11. CSA: DL-RC, 24 November 1952. "Sunny Trails Tries Again," STM, May 1955, p. 3.
12. Van Tan Call, July-August 1948; CSA: "Report on CSA Board," 11 January 1953; RC-RN & DL, 11 January 1953; Minutes of Board Meeting, 11 July 1952.
13. CSA: RC-RN & DL, 7 January 1953; DL-RC, 1 January 1953.
14. CSA: RN-RC, February 1949; BB-AT, 14 October 1951; BB-RC, 9 November 1951; RN-BC, 28 March 1956; BB-RC, 26 February 1951; KL-HM, 5 May 1951.
15. CSA: KL-GE, 19 April 1952.
16. CSA: RN-GE, July 1952; BB-RC, 11 June 1952; BB-RC, 13 October 1952.
17. CSA: KL-CSA, 28 June 1952; DL-RC, 24 November 1952; RN-GE, 5 December 1952.
18. CSA: JG-CSA, undated (July 1952); RN-RC, 22 October 1952.
19. "Saskatoon, SK," STM, July 1952, p. 12; ibid, October 1950, p. 14; CSA: DL-Sunglades Members, July 1952.
20. "Saskatoon, SK," STM, October 1950, p. 14; CSA: RC-RN & DL, 7 January 1953; RC-II, 3 July 1952; Minutes, CSA Board, 11 January 1953.
21. CSA: RC-Eastern Leaders, 7 January 1953.
22. Ibid. Van Tan Call, March 1948; CSA: KL-HM, 5 May 1951; DC-RC, 7 August 1951; GC-RC, 19 June 1952; RC-RC, 18 March 1956.
23. "Western Regional Convention Held," STM, July-August-September 1953, pp. 1, 4; "Introducing our Board of Directors," STM, April 1954, p. 1; "8th Convention Huge Success," August 1954, pp. 1-2; ST, SBH, December 1954, p. 8.
24. CSA: RC-IB, 15 July 1946; HC-RC, 18 July 1946; CSA: HC-RC, 4 September 1946; STM, October 1947, p. 6; William Hartman, Nudist Society (New York: Avon, 1971), pp. 25-27.
25. William Hartman, Marilyn Fithian, Donald Johnson, Nudist Society (New York: Avon Books, 1971), Chapter Two: "Farly Days in America," pp. 3041.
26. CSA: NP-HM, 16 March 1951.
27. "Affiliation with the American Sunbathing Association," STM, April 1954, pp. 3-7. CSA: RC-RN & DL, 7 January 1953; ST, January 1954, p. 9.
28. "A New Name," STM, June 1954, pp. 2-5, 9-11; "Canadian Gymnosophical Association," August 1954, pp. 4-5.
29. "A New Name," STM, June 1954, pp. 3, 10; CSA: KR-RC. 25 November 1955.
30. Connett, "Reminiscences. See also CSA: RC-AT, 19 July 1955.
31. CSA: RC-KR, 13 September 1955; RC-KR, 13 February 1956; KR-RC, 30 January 1956.
32. CSA: RC-KR, 15 February 1956.
33. CSA: KR-BC, 14 March 1956; KR-RC, 16 April 1956.
34. "Constitutional Confusion," STM, August 1957, pp. 4-5. CSA: "Report of the National Secretary, 25 July 1956. "
35. CSA: MM-RC, 10 April 1956; BC-MM, 11 March 1956; "Report of the National Secretary," 25 July 1956; "Report from the Western Convention," American Sunbather & Nudist Leader, December 1956, p. 14; ST, December 1956, pp. 8-9.
36. "Western Convention Report," CSAir, August 1957, p. 5. Also CSA: Minutes of Western Convention, August 1957; "Constitutional Confusion," CSAir, August 1957, p. 4; Sunny Gatherings, July 1957.
37. CSA: Circular, KR to all Members of the CSA-Eastern Division, 15 August 1957. Minutes of CSA Eastern Convention, 27-28 July 1957.
38. CSA: KR-Club Leaders, 23 August 1957.
39. CSA: KR-CSA-Eastern Division Officers of the Executive, 10 September 1957; Minutes of Eastern Board Meeting, 19 January 1958; BC-President, CSA, 2 October 1957.
40. "A Time for Decision," CSAir, July 1959, p. 3; CSA: KR-RC, 29 September 1958. Also BC-RC, 9 August 1958.
41. "A Time for Decision," CSAir, July 1959, p. 3; CSA: JC-RC, 30 September 1958. Also: JC-ED, 24 November 1958; RH-NP, 23 February 1959.
42. CSA: BC-RC, 30 September 1957. Also BC, ms notes re Canadian Sun Air; BC-EC, 17 March 1958.
43. "Canada Speaks," SH, February 1948, p. 28; "Sunny Trails Becomes a Printed Magazine," STM, Convention Issue 1949, p. 5; "President's Message," STM, October 1950, p. 2; "The Editor's Basket," STM, December 1951, p. 6; CSA: GE-GC, January 1952; "An Explanation from Sunny Trails," STM, April 1954, p. 10.
44. STM, Convention Issue (1949), p. 16; CSA: BC-RC, 30 September 1957; WCSA Newsletter, February 1966, p. 7.
45. CSA: Report on CSA Board Meeting, RC-Eastern Leaders, 11 January 1953. For background see "Sunny Trails Reborn," STM, May 1953, pp. 1-2; "Issue delayed," STM, July-August-September 1953, p. 8; "Sunny Trails Tries Again," STM, May 1955, pp. 2-3.
46. "Post Office Ok's Nude Pictures," STM, Convention Issue (1949), p. 16; "Sunny Trails Barred from Mails," STM Bulletin, February 1953; "Sunny Trails Reborn," STM, May 1953, pp. 1-2; "From the Editor's Basket," ibid, pp. 8-9; "President's Message," STM, June 1953, p. 2; "Flash!," ibid, p. 4; STM, May 1955, p. 3; CSA: RC-Eastern Leaders, 11 January 1953; RC-MM, 7 December 1955; BC-RC, 30 September 1957.
47. CSA: RC-HC, 26 July 1946; RC-MM, 7 December 1955; RC-KR, 9 January 1956; RC-MM, 27 January 1956; RC-AT, 4 December 1952; STM, May 1954, p. 10; June 1954; Connett quoted in Diane Rienstra, "Nudism alive and well in B.C.," TGIF, 19 June 1981.
48. CSA: JC-HP, 14 October 1958; ibid, 5 November 1958; JC-RC, 5 November 1958; DS-JC, 21 November 1958.
49. "Origins of the Ontario Federation of Nudist Clubs," TGS Echo, September 1959.
50. Echo, June 1960; CSA: Minutes of 1959 Eastern Convention, 11 July 1959.
51. CSA: Minutes of 1959 Eastern Convention, July 12, 1959; "Ontario Clubs Form Federation," CSAir, October 1959, pp. 1-4; Echo, July 1959.
52. CSA: EC-RC, 22 July 1959. Also EC-RC, 13 August 1959; EC-Club Representatives, 20 August 1959; EC-RC, 13 August 1959.
53. ECSA Newsletter, 22 March 1962; CSA: Club Representatives-EC, 16 August 1959; EC-ED, 21 September 1959.
54. CSA: EC-RC, 22 July 1959; RC-EC, undated (August 1959); "What of the Future," CSAir, October 1959, p. 13. Also: EC-ED, 22 July 1959.
55. CSA: ED-EC, 12 September 1959. Also: Minutes, Meeting of CSA National Board, 11 September 1959; RC-EC, 12 November 1959; Letter, CSAir, June 1960, p. 4; ED-HP & RW, 12 September 1959.
56. CSA: EC-ED, 20 October 1959; RC-EC, 12 November 1959. Also EC-ED, 21 September 1959; EC-Clubs, 2 November 1959; ED-EC, 16 November 1959; EC-PW, 29 November 1959.
57. CSA: Minutes of 1959 Eastern Convention, 11-12 July.
58. CSA: EC-RC, 13 August 1959; OFNC Club Representatives-EC, 16 August 1959; EC-Club Representatives, 16 August 1959; GM-EC, 3 September 1959. Also: Minutes of Club Representatives Meeting, Eastern Convention, 12 July 1959; TGS-EC, 6 December 1959; EHSC-EC, 3 August 1959; NGS/TGS/SBR/NHV-EC, 16 August 1959; MTC-EC, 27 September 1959; TGS-EC, 6 December 1959.
59. CSA: EC-NP, 7 December 1959; EC-DS, 7 December 1959; DS-RC, 8 November 1959; DS-EC, December 1959. Also: RC-RH, 28 September 1959; NP-EC & JC, 7 October 1959; RC-EC & JC, 20 October 1959; RHEastern Clubs, 19 November 1959.
60. Echo, February 1960, p. 2; Letter, MM-ED, reprinted in CSAir, March 1960, p. 13; CSA: GM-EC, 6 December 1959. Also: Letter, DS-CSA-West, January 1960, reprinted in CSAir, March 1960, p. 3.
61. CSA: NP-All Clubs in Eastern Canada, 12 January 1960; Report of Special Meeting, January 23-24, 1960 (dated 8 February 1960); reprinted in CSAir, March 1960, p. 3.
62. CSA: Draft Motion for Regional Status, 3 March 1960; Ms Notes on Phone Conversation, BC-DS, 8 March 1960.
63. CSA: Minutes of Eastern Division Convention, 4-5 June 1960.
64. "Pack Meets Eastern Leaders," CSAir, April 1960, p. 4; Echo, September 1960, pp. 3-4.
Chapter Eleven
1. "ECSA President's Message," CSAir, January-February 1961, p. 11. ECSA: Constitution, section 3; TGS Echo, September 1960.
2. ECSA: KR-SW, 14 May 1961. Newsletter, June 1962; JS-BC, 7 July 1963; BC-FV, 16 July 1963.
3. "A New Form of Government?," CSAir, June 1961, pp. 1-4; RC & MC-Canadian Sun Air Subscribers, insert, CSAir, April 1964. ECSA: RC-MW, 28 December 1960; BC-AQ, 3 December 1960; ECSA: BC-RC, 3 July 1961.
4. ECSA: Minutes of First Meeting, 13 August 1960; BC-JP & IP, 28 June 1965. BC-SM, 22 March 1966.
5. ECSA Newsletter, 27 March 1962. CSA: Minutes of 1959 Eastern Convention, 11-12 July; ECSA: BC-JS, 22 March 1961.
6. "Eastern Report," CSAir, May 1961, p. 2; ECSA: Draft Resolution, April 1961. TGS Echo, January-February 1961; ECSA: BC-WL, 24 July 1961; BC-RH, 21 May 1961; BC-JD, 6 April 1961; BC-TK, 2 August 1961; ECSA Circular, 9 June 1961.
7. "ECSA Sundries," ASA Bulletin, February 1962, p. 5; BC-RH, 24 April 1962; SS-RV & BC, 30 April 1962. See also ED-BC, 19 December 1961; NP-BC, 20 December 1961; ECSA-ASA, 23 April 1962; BC-AF, 27 September 1961.
8. ECSA: ED-BC, 19 December 1961; MT-ECSA, undated (August 1962); WL-BC, 14 August 1962; BC-JS, 7 September 1962; ECSA Newsletter, 28 September 1962; "ASA Convention: Century 21," CSAir, November 1962, pp. 3-4.
9. ECSA: BC-JS, 18 July 1963; BC-JS, 14 October 1963; BC-MM, 29 September 1963; Minutes of Board Meeting, 4 August 1963.
10. ECSA: ECSA-ASA, 22 February 1964. ECSA Newsletter, 15 May 1962; ibid, 27 June 1962; Ballot, 15 November 1963; "ECSA Withdraws From ASA," CSAir, April 1964, pp. 14-15; "ECSA Leaves ASA," ASA Bulletin, April 1964, pp. 1, 3.
11. CNC: JF-HB, 17 January 1976; JF-BC, 17 January 1974; BCJF, 12 December 1974.
12. ECSA: BC-DW, 6 April 1970. Minutes of Board Meeting, 3 September 1969.
13. ECSA: JF-ECSA, 27 April 1972; JF-BC, 7 February 1972. Also: SW-VP, 29 January 1972; "Voting on Constitution Amendments," ECSA-To All Members, 24 April 1971; Ballot on Constitutional Amendments, 24 April 1971.
14. ECSA: JF-ECSA Board & Clubs, 15 April 1972. Newsletter, July 1972; ECSA: ET-JF, 2 May 1972 interview--Eddy.
15. ECSA: JF-ECSA Clubs, 15 August 1972; JF-ECSA Club Representatives, 7 October 1972. Newsletter, May 1973; ET-JF, May 1972; Minutes of Board Meeting, 6 August 1972.
16. CNC: JF-ASA, 22 January 1974. ECSA: JF-BC, 8 August 1973.
17. ECSA: Report of Special Committee-ECSA Board, 24 August 1969; ET-JF, in: Minutes of Board Meeting, 6 August 1972. See also Newsletter, May 1973; WCSA: Minutes of the Annual Convention, 1972; ECSA: Minutes of Board Meeting, 6 August 1972; JF-Club Representatives, 7 October 1972.
18. CNC: SJ-CNC Board, 15 February 1978; ASA Bulletin, May 1978, p. 1.
19. WCSA: Minutes of Annual Convention, June 1960.
20. "WCSA," CSAir, October 1961, pp. 3-4. Also "The Year of the Totem." ibid, August 1963, pp. 2-3; Western Canadian Sunbathing Association," ibid, September-October 1963, pp. 1, 15.
21. CNC: FE-JF, 4 December 1974; WCSA Newsletter, June 1966.
22. WCSA: CC-ON, 11 January 1967. Also: ON-RH, 30 August 1966.
23. WCSA: VTC-WCSA, 28 November 1967. Also Van Tan Call (1961), passim.
24. WCSA: DW-CR, 11 April 1970; DW-WCSA, 3 November 1970; SCA: Minutes of Meeting, 27 March 1971.
25. WCSA: RJ-WCSA, 5 September 1971; "Report from Chair of Dissolution Committee," Minutes of Board Meeting, 9 October 1971. "Without Fear or Favor," CNN, SeptemberOctober 1971; "Sunny Chinooks Association Report," WCSA Convention Minutes, 1972.
26. "Fact or Fairy Tale," CNN, November-December 1971.
27. Ibid; WCSA: RW-CR, 28 August 1971.
28. "New Era for WCSA," CNN, September-October-November 1972, p. 4; WCSA: DK-Hyperions, 11 March 1973; JW-FE, 28 February 1974. Also ON-RE, 12 November 1973.
29. Letter, RE-MCCA, 17 June 1975, reprinted in CNN, January 1976, p. 5; WCSA: DFC-HB, 14 April 1975. See also "New Era for WCSA," CNN, p. 4; CNN, August-September 1973; WCSA: HB-JF, 31 July 1974; MCCA-RE, 24 September 1975.
30. "Message From the WCSA President," CNN, September 1993; "NEWS FLASH! ASA Dues Could Increase By At Least 40%," CNN, June 1994. Also "WCSA Annual Convention," GN, Fall 1993, p. 18; "Convention Report," ibid, September 1994, p. 1; "Trustee's Report," ibid, March 1993; "Comments From a Concerned Member," ibid, June 1994; "Helios joins in, and other prairie observations," GN, Winter 1998/99, p. 8.
31. François Huot, "Changer le Peau," Loisirs Plus, 1977, p. 34.
32. "Le Bilan du Fondateur pour le 15e anniversaire de la FQN," AN, Spring-Summer 1992, p. 10.
33. "Naissance d'une federation naturiste du Quebec," Naturisme, September-October 1977, p. 7; "La Federation quebecoise de naturisme a dix ans," AN, Spring-Summer 1987, p. 17; "Bilan," p. 11; interview--Michel.
34. "Une nouvelle categorie de membres a la Federation: Les centres," AN, Fall 1984, pp. 3-6; interview--Michel (Montreal); "Bilan," pp. 11-12. See also FQN: FQN-INF, 29 April 1978.
35. FQN: MV-JP, 17 November 1977; "On veut creer une Federation naturiste: pour qui? Pourquoi?," NdQ, 4-18 December 1977, p. 19.
36. "Pas a pas: La FQN et les Centres," AN, Fall 1984, p. 4. Also "Une nouvelle categorie," p. 4; "La FQN a Dix Ans," AN, Spring-Summer, 1987, p. 17.
37. FQN; Memoire, 10 April 1978.
38. FQN: CLQ-FQN, 13 November 1979. See also FQN: Minutes of Board Meetings, 24 February 1979; 19 June 1979; RB-CLQ & FQN, 13 November 1979.
39. FQN: FQN-RONLQ, 10 April 1981; RONLQ-FQN, 7 May 1981; Minutes of Board Meeting, 29 January 1982; Interview-Michel (1988).
40. "Rapport Moral," FQN Special Bulletin, Fall 1981, p. 4; "Le Mot du President," AN, Spring 1985, p. 3. Also "Rapport Moral," AN, Fall 1982, p. 3; FQN: Minutes of Board Meeting, 29 January 1982.
41. FQN: VP-MV, 13 March 1978; "Rapport Moral," AN, Fall 1982, p. 3; "Un Premier Bilan," AN, Fall 1985, p. 2; "NUDEvelopments," GN, Fall 2000, p. 5.
42. "Une heure de tele avec 20 naturistes," AN, Spring 1985, pp. 19-20.
43. "Nouvelles de la Federation," Summer 1981, p. 2; "Rapport moral," AN, Fall 1982, pp. 3-4; "Rapport Moral," Special Bulletin, Fall 1981, p. 3. See also Au Naturel (CNRB), 3-2-1981, p. 12; "Rapport Moral," Les Informations, Summer 1980, p. 1; ibid, Fall 1981, p. 2; FQN: FQN-All Clubs, 5 April 1983; "Naturists Go Public in Montreal," GN, Spring 1989, p. 13.
44. "Une nouvelle categorie," AN, Spring 1983, pp. 3-6; "Les journees 'portes ouvertes' dans les centres accredites," AN, Fall 1983, p. 4; FQN: Minutes of Annual General Assembly, 8 November 1981.
45. "La FQN et les Centres," AN Fall 1984, p. 5. See also "Une nouvelle categorie," pp. 3-4; "Autour d'un tabou," AN, Fall 1982, p. 15.
46. "Confus," AN, Spring-Summer 1987, p. 3.
47. CROC, August 1989, pp. 51-52, 56-57, 62, 66.
48. FQN: VB-Members, 3 September 1991; Minutes, Annual General Meeting, 14 November 1993; FNQ-FCN, reprinted in GN, Summer 1990, p. 18; Report of Editor to Annual General Meeting, 14 November 1993; "Encan-Benefice au profit de la FQN," AN, Spring-Summer 1992, p. 31; "FQN Holds Auction," GN, Spring 1992, p. 19; "Bilan du fondateur," p. 16.
49. "Bilan du fondateur," p. 16. interviews: Tom, Michel (Montreal).
Chapter Twelve
1. TGS Echo, Fall 1963.
2. Edmond Boyd, "Generation Gap," Globe and Mail, 1 September 1970.
3. Letter, Clothinq-Optional Life, Winter 1988, p. 38; FQN: Nudisme et Naturisme, p. 1; "Sunny Chinooks Acres," Cochrane Times, 1 August 1979. Also "Do clubs discriminate against Singles--the FCN perspective", GN, Spring 1991, p. 2; "25th INF Congress," GN, Winter 1996, p. 4. Cf. "ASA Trustee Report", CNN, March 1994, p. 2.
4. WCSA: HB, Report from SCA, in minutes of 1972 Convention.
5. Letter to the Editor, ASA Bulletin, October 1976, p. 3; "Canadian Clothing Optional Campground Discontinued," ASA Bulletin, March 1980, p. 10; Nude & Natural, Vol. 12, No. 4, p. 28; "Manitoulin Island Clothing-Optional Resort," GN, Winter 1992, p. 18; "Black River Country Inn," GN, Fall 1995, p. 18. Also: CNC: PW-CNC, 25 August 1976, p. 3.
6. "Bare Wilderness: A New Place in the Sun," GN, Spring 1989, p. 7. Also: "Wilderness adventure," GN, Spring 1993, pp. 12-13; "Jewel Lake Wilderness moves ahead," GN, Summer 1998, p. 10; interview--John (North Bay).
7. "Report from Sunward," GN, Summer 1991, p. 9; interview--Paul (Ottawa).
8. "Travel Clubs Forming," GN, Spring 1993, p. 2; "Naturist group forming at Peterborough," GN, Fall 1996, p. 7.
9. "Ontario Roaming Bares," GN, Summer 1994, p. 5. Also: "Nude in Toronto," GN, Spring 1996, p. 12; "The Seminar Season," GN, Spring 1993, p. 5; Rob Cribb, "Nudism is growing--naturally," London Free Press, 18 May 1996; "Club News," GN, Summer 1996, p. 18; "O.R.B. Bluewater unveils new nude sport," GN, Winter 1996, p. 17; "O.R.B. Bluewater is one year old!," GN, Spring 1997, p. 15; Kim Honey, "Urban nudists find it isn't altogether easy," Globe and Mail, 29 June 1998; "Catching the Waves," GN, Summer 1998, p. 9; "Nude in Toronto," ORB Toronto Internet Report, http:\\www.angelfire.com/on/orbtoronto/swim.html.
10. Ottawa Naturists: ON/NO Newsletter, 1993-1994, passim. "BC Style Naturism comes to Ottawa," GN, Spring 1994, p. 8; "Ottawa Naturists: A Nude Success," GN, Summer 1994, pp. 6-7.
11. "Northern Snowbirds," GN, Summer 1994, pp. 5-6.
12. "Hidden Lakes Resort," GN, Summer 1996, p. 18; "The Grand Barn," GN, Spring 1991, p. 12; "Down at the Barn," GN, Winter 1992, pp. 8-9; "Bigger Things at The Grand Barn," GN, Spring 1997, pp. 12-13.
13. FAN Newsletter (1991); FCN: PV-DB, 16 October 1991; SVNP: Sunny Times (1991-1993); Mark Bowlby, "It's More Than Taking Off Your Clothes," Enfield Weekly Press, 28 April 1993; Bill Power, "Nudists' Plans Rattle Officials," Halifax Herald, May 1993, reprinted in GN, Spring 1994, p. 19; "Canadian naturist gathering 1998 to be hosted in Nova Scotia," GN, Spring 1998, p. 16.
14. "Bluenose Naturist Club," GN, Summer 1994, p. 7; telephone conversation--Matt.
15. Letter, "Friendship Corner," STM, June 1947, p. 3; CSA: AD-HM, 23 May 1951; "Hope for Kamloops," CSAir, June 1960, p. 15; "Kam Tans," CSAir, May 1961, p. 5; "Kam Tans," Sunny gatherings, February 1961; "Sunny Mainliners," WCSA Newsletter, February 1966; STC: Minutes of Board Meeting, 11 February 1968; interview-Harry (Calgary).
16. "North Okanagan/Shuswap Nudist Society," GN, Fall 1989, p. 9; Okanagan Shuswap Nudist Society," CNN, June 1992; ibid, March 1993; "Western Canadians to Repeat Houseboat Cruise," ASA Bulletin, December 1993, p. 16; "The Okanagan Shuswap Nudist Society," GN, Summer 1994, p. 4; ibid, Spring 1995, p. 17.
17. "FCN Holds First Annual Meeting," GN, Fall 1986, p. 14.
18. FQN: MV-WD, 15 February 1984; WD-MV, 14 July 1984; "Les Naturistes Canadiens S'Organisent," AN, Spring 1984, pp. 19-20.
19. FCN: Minutes of First General Meeting, 23 August 1986; "FCN Holds First Annual Meeting," GN, Fall 1986.
20. FCN: Minutes of First Annual Meeting, 23 August 1986; DB-MV, 13 March 1986.
21. FCN ByLaws, 9 September 1990.
22. CSA: JC-HB, 11 November 1974; WCSA: JC-HB, 11 November 1974; FCN: Minutes of Board Meeting, 25 January 1988.
23. FCN: Minutes of FQN-FCN Union Meeting, 28-29 January 1989; "FQN-FCN Union Hosts INF President," GN, Spring 1989, p. 4; "FQN-FCN Agreement Concluded," GN, Summer 1989, pp. 4-5.
24. FCN: JL-FCN Board, 3 August 1988; interview--Ernie (Weyburn, SK); FCN: Minutes of Board Meeting, 3 December 1988.
25. "FCN Annual Meeting goes West," GN, Fall 1989, p. 7; FCN: "Club Memberships" (Memorandum, undated).
26. FCN: Public Relations Director Report, Minutes of Annual Meeting, 23 September 1988; "Why the FCN?," GN, Winter 1992, p. 11. Also: Public Relations Director Report, FCN Annual Meeting (1989), reprinted in GN, Fall 1989, p. 7.
27. "Sears AD Too Cheeky for P.E.I.," London Free Press, 28 February 1991. The FCN scrambled to locate this alleged club. See FCN: Report on CBC Ad for Club Sears (1991); "Naturist Media & PR Update," GN, Summer 1992, p. 11; "Public relations report," GN, Fall 1992, pp. 12-13. On the real PEI beach see "Blooming Point Nude Beach," GN, Summer 1996, p. 17.
28. FCN: Minutes of Board Meeting, 30 July 1988; ibid, 28 July 1990; ibid, 24 March 1991; "The Seminar Season," GN, Spring 1993, p. 5.
29. FCN: Minutes of Board Meetings, 27 June 1987; 14 July 1991; Minutes of Annual Meeting, 20 September 1992; Minutes of FQN-FCN Union Meeting, 22 August 1992.
30. "The Top 15 Way Cool Reasons . . . to Spend a Day or a Weekend at a Nudist Campground/Beach," FCN/YCN: www.fcn.ca/coolrsns.html. "YCN progress and the Australian-French-Dutch-Connection," GN, Summer 1997, p.17.
31. "YCN progress and the Australian-French-Dutch connection," GN, Summer 1997, p. 17; "NUDEvelopments," GN, Spring 1998, p. 5; "No snowsuit required," GN, Summer 1998, p. 11; "Starting YCN branches across Canada," GN, Fall 1998, p. 17; "Toronto exposes other talents," The Gazette (U.W.O.), 26 November 1998; "NOW! Another university naturist group," GN, Summer 1999, p. 8.
32. "President's Report. FCN 10th Annual Meeting returns to Glen Echo Park", GN, Fall 1995, p. 4. Also "National survey on Canadian attitudes towards nudity," GN, Winter 1999/2000, p. 16; "Past President's Guest Column", GN, Summer 1995, p. 13; FCN: Minutes of Annual General Meeting, 24 September 1995; "The FCN at the 26th INF World Congress," GN, Spring 1999, p. 11.
33. "The FCN gains a home," GN, Spring 2000, p. 8.
34. Claudia Medina, "Conservative Canadian Bares All, Almost, on Carefree Island Beach," Ottawa Citizen, 14 April 1994, reprinted in ASA Bulletin, 1 October 1994.