Hello Alain! Good to have you aboard here. It shows the danger in taking things for granted because I thought you knew that Tilly wrote that he had designed 27 holes there.
Below is Tilly's 1925 advertisement listing a number of teh courses that he had designed and were built. Notice that the third one listed under "Twenty-seven Holes" in the upper part of the left is the Anglo-American Club.
For those who've never had the privilege of meeting, ciorreponding or speaking with Alain, he has taken on locating the vestiges of teh Club and course as a passion that few can equal. He is meticulous, patient and obviously a lover of Tilly's work. All you Canadian members should be proud to make his acquaintance.
By the way, Alain, was it you who shared this photo with me? Someone sent me this, and I can't find who in my notes, as the possible site of the Anglo-American Club. If you did, what did you find out about it. If you didn't, then here's another clue for you!
Thanks for the nice words Philip. The picture was sent to you by Claude Gravel (a friend of mine). I work for Bell Canada and Claude wanted to know if our company had a country club in the laurentians since the picture has the name Bell in the title. Although this looks like a picture from the same era, I doubt that this would be the club house of Anglo American.
According to the "Registrary of enterprises of the province of Quebec", the Lake L’Achigan Golf & Country Club was incorporated on February 19th, 1930. Could this be Anglo American? It must be.
The city doesn't know anything about the existence of this club. I'm investigating a new place: The salvation army is running a camp at LAc L'Achigan since 1933. I sent them a note yesterday asking for information about who they bought the land from in 1933, etc. The location of the camp is lakefront. Since they opened the camp just after the depression and that I believe that the club may have gone through some financial crisis (reason why we can't find anything today), I hope that this will lead to something.
I still have a hard time understanding why they would build a 27 hole complex in the laurentains in 1922-1925. At the time, the region only had a few 9 holes and it was more than enough for the population, even for those on vacation during summer time...
I'm really pushing the city of St-Hippolyte to help me with this. They have a few thousands citizens around the lake and close to the city... Someone must know something...
Can you tell me where does this 1925 advertisement comes from? And if Tilly did 27 holes, which should have been a huge contract for the time, do you happen to have names of the people who hired him for the job?
Alain