I have been trying to nurse my sore back into a healthy state for about a week now. This morning I decided to walk over to the Minoru Track for a walkabout. We are staying nearby in Richmond while John attends a hospice conference. I joined 50-60 aging Asians as they circled the track in various displays of combined walk/tai-chi routines. They swayed, hopped, lunged,stretched and loped around the track while I attempted to keep an easy stride during two rounds of the 400 metre route.
Some interesting Wikipedia history: Minoru started out as a horse-racing track on August 21, 1909.
Almost one year later, on March 25, 1910, the first-ever Canadian airplane flight west of Winnipeg took off from Minoru Racetrack, with 3,500 witnesses on hand. The plane was manned by Charles K. Hamilton; he flew it from Minoru to New Westminster and back.
Another year later, on April 28, 1911, William Templeton flew a homemade biplane at Minoru. This was the first plane to be both built in and flown over Metro Vancouver. Templeton would later become the first manager of Vancouver International Airport.
American Alys Bryant became the first woman in Canada to make a solo flight, taking off from Minoru Park on July 31, 1913.
In early August 1919, the first-ever flight in Canada to cross the Rocky Mountains took off from Minoru Park. It was manned by Vancouver's Ernest Charles Hoy, who flew the plane from Richmond to Calgary. The trip took 16 hours and 42 minutes. It was also the first airmail delivery across the Rocky Mountains.
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