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For Mar Mar.

And to the Irish families who once lived and farmed in the meadow at the top of McCloskey Road in Gatineau Park until about 1875. High along that rocky, inhospitable ridge of deep forest, as recounted by C.E. Mortureaux in “History of George’s Trail” published in the 1923—24 Canadian Ski Annual , “once lived and toiled a little colony of Irish settlers — the Dunlops, Laheys, Keogans, Egans, Jeffs, McGuires, and McCloskeys. How they came to settle on this stony land, no one knows. Probably they were planted here on some dark night and stayed because they did not know that the rest of the world had anything better to offer. One day, as the story goes, they heard from some visitor about the level, flat land in the valley below, and straightaway they packed their household goods and climbed down, never to return, some by McCloskey’s Hill and some by Murphy’s.”