I've been thinking about this for some time.
It's time to decide to be here.
So I'm here now.
For now.
So why Chocolate Lake?
I don't know.
When I googled it, this is the most relevant hit I got. My neighbour, Ms Maggie Beach (don't ask, she picked the name, it's her porn name apparently) used to work in the Armdale Yacht Club, which is just down the road.
In the 1920's young men like Jack Buckley, Jim Egan, and Walter Piers led the way to the incorporation of the Armdale Yacht Club. First from a location close to Jubillee Road, then from 'Mosey' Stoneman's Armdale Boat House and the Edmonds ground, AYC set itself up on Melville Island.
A 1930's challenge with those who raced on Chocolate Lake brought others to the Arm. The 'Siskin' was an early power boat. During the prohibition era she knew about "rum running". Louis 'Tookie' Murphy (AYC's 2nd Commodore) later became Siskin's proud owner. Jim Egan, AYC's first Commodore, was the owner of the other power boat 'Comber'.
Now that it's all about Chocolate and not about Percy, I shall try to find out why it's called Chocolate Lake. I heard that there used to be a chocolate factory by the lake, where the hotel is now. But I don't know if that's true.
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Be the holy! The end of Percy; end of a wee era, that. But bring on the chocolate...
I seem to recall there being a feature in the Chronicle Herald last year on Chocolate Lake that had archival pictures of the chocolate factory. Give the public library's main reference desk a call and they can probably pull it off a database for you.
Cheers
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