Kathleen and Bill also involved themselves in many of their children’s 
     
     social activities. They chaperoned student dances at the Holy Redeemer 
     
     Hall, and welcomed each of their children’s friends into their home. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Bill also got involved in minor hockey, taking the children to practices 
     
     and games, and served for a time as president of the Charlottetown 
     
     Minor Hockey Association. Kathleen stayed at home with whoever was 
     
     not playing hockey that particular evening, and attended games whenever 
     
     schedules and time permitted. Hockey gear was passed down from one 
     
     brother to another, and with an affordable family rate offered by the 
     
     minor hockey association, everyone participated. Kathleen and Bill took 
     
     great pride in their children’s enthusiasm for the sport; Hockey Night 
     
    

    
     in Canada became as common as Sunday morning mass. (Ironically, 
     
     although Kathleen followed her sons’ hockey involvement with great 
     
     pride and attention, she rarely watched National Hockey League games 
     
     and did not have a favourite team.) 
     
    
   
   
    
     The lvan Doherty family lived neXt 
     
     door, and its backyard rink was a 
     
     popular gathering place for children 
     
     of the neighbourhood. To make up 
     
     for the lack of equipment, the young 
     
     pond players came up with some 
     
     innovative solutions. The boys made 
     
     goalie masks out of papier mache, . 
     
     old newspapers coated in flour and 
     
    

    
     water, and cut the eyes out. When 
     
    
   
   
    
     curved hockey sticks became the 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     rage, the boys would take the stick ’ ._ 
     
     which came with a straight blade, From lefito right, Steve 
     
     heat it over the kitchen stove until it Matheson, Colin Younlm; Bill 
     
    
   
   
    
     was hot, insert it in a kitchen drawer Doherty andD’Arcmephy 
     
     and bend the blade until they got the flooding the Debug”: backyard 
     
     desired result. rink (circa 1965) 
     
    
   
   
    
     Although they all played aggressively, no one incurred a serious injury 
     
     from hockey. The last thing the boys would hear from Kathleen as they 
     
    
   
   
    
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