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(Photo: Randy Brown, Jane Manning- Marshall and Doug Fraser)
In early May Jane Manning-Marshall welcomed Doug Fraser of Ottawa and Randy Brown in a drop-by visit to the Pointe au Baril Library at the Township of The Archipelago’s Community Centre. Doug donated two books written by Jane’s sister, the late Sally Manning of McKellar, Ontario; A Golden Tear: Daniele Sauvageau’s Journey to Olympic Gold (2002) and Guts and Glory: The Arctic Skiers Who Challenged The World (2006).
It was a well-timed visit as Sally will be inducted posthumously into the Bobby Orr Hall of Fame on June 18th this year for her outstanding contribution to local, national and international sports competition in golf, ice hockey and cross-country skiiing, Sally, a member of Canada’s National Field Hockey Team in the 1970s, was the first Canadian woman to be selected to the all-star “International XI Field Hockey Team” in 1979 and named to the 1980 Olympic Team. From the mid 1980s onward, Sally’s extensive travel across the High Arctic was undertaken by kayak, canoe, boots, bike, bush plane, dog sled and any other means that came to hand. Her reflections on the people and landscape of the North were published in many Canadian magazines. The Sally Manning Award for Creative Non-Fiction was established in memory of Sally in 2015 and is awarded annually to North writers across the Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut.