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Clair: There was Church League hockey and baseball when I was growing up and Immaculate Conception did not have a church baseball team and Mark Street did, but because we were Catholics and Mark Street was a United Church we were not allowed to play for that team. As a matter of fact the YMCA was considered a den of iniquity and until Grade 12 when Father Maskey gave us permission to go to the YMCA we were not allowed to participate in activities in the YMCA as well. It was pretty much you play you play out in your backyard or down at the park. Which was somewhat unfortunate because today you have Catholics and non Catholics playing on the same teams and so forth, and it seems somewhat unnecessary. We would go to Immaculate on one side of the street and Mark Street on the other side of the street and hurl at least insults if not stones at one another. No, that was not good. Today there's a movement towards ecumenism as well as multi-faith which goes beyond just Catholics and Protestants that includes people of all faiths trying to have respect for one another and tolerance and so on which is absolutely needed.

Clair Leahy