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4 PAGE TEN ONTARIO TODAY ve dah Las To att Ski tows are kept busy on the & A) # ; Woe : = x More and more people are learning th] and because they are, a multi-million ; fy tx Ne 3 Thritling--but not for novices yo people in Ontario have always grown up in the tradition that snowtime is funtime. Now their elders, once less enthusiastic about winter, are joining them. The reason? Where there's snow, there's skiing, and, where there's skiing there's fun and frolic for the whole family, The growth of skiing's popularity in Ontario in the past few years has been phenomental, matched only by the summertime activity of camping. Equipping, transporting and housing skiers is now big business, in the multi- million dollar class. Roads to good hills are kept open for skiers travelling by car, bus lines and railways run "skiers' specials", resorts are building on the theme of snowtime fun and new ski clubs are mushrooming province. Ne THE SPORT HAS BLOSSOMED in South- ern Ontario as well as in the North. There is the Lookout Ski Club near Welland, deep in the province's "ban- ana belt". St. Catharines has its Decew club. Kitchener its Chicopee club, So it goes around the northern rim of Lake Ontario, through Hamilton, Oshawa, Cobourg and Kingston. Geo- graphy has favored the eastern part of Southern Ontario with good hills and a fairly consistent snowfall. The Northumberland hills back of Cobourg and Port Hope and the "ridges" north of Bowmanville and Oshawa have long been favored haunts of the ski enthus- iasts. and now they are being discov- red by family groups, who are finding out that skiing can \ fun for the tyro as much as for the é&xpert. When the Metropolitan Toronto® Conservation Authority laid out its splendid conservation area in"the Al- bion Hills, it recognized the new and tremendous popularity of skiing. THERE ARE UPWARDS of 56 ski clubs established in the province, most of them now equipped with tows and comfortable lodges. In addition there are more than a score of first-class resorts, found for the most part in the famed holiday areas--Muskoka, the Haliburtons, the Algonquin-Madawa- ska area, and the famed country bord- ering southern Georgian Bay. The Hockly Valley draws thousands of weekend skiers from Toronto, and th streets of Orangeville are gay with visitors on Saturday nights. As the skier moves north, he enters areas where hundreds of thousands of ~