Don Hogarth – Friends of Gatineau Park Service Award
On Sunday February 14th at a Heritage Day event held at the Gatineau Park Visitor Centre the Friends of Gatineau Park awarded Don Hogarth a certificate for his long service to the organization.
A Professor of Geology Don Hogarth has studied Gatineau Park "deeply" producing the book A Guide to the Geology of the Gatineau-Lievre District in 1962 and becoming a founding member of Friends of the Gatineau Park when it formed a decade ago. One of Hogarth's articles was the source of the GuideGatineau video on open pit mining at Fortune Lake.
As he accepted his award he made a few remarks about some of the adventures he's had in Gatineau Park. These can be seen in the video below. Have patience, the lights come on after a minute or so.
Of note were items such as the time he found a dead man in a car; another time when he approached the old farmhouse (now gone) at the top of the McCloskey Road to find a horse trapped inside; or the time Peter Aykroyd, Dan Aykroyd's father arranged to have a bulldozer dig a hole in the park simply for some visiting geologists to have a look at a certain type of rock.