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LETTERS: Canada Day in North Rustico and 100 reasons to smile

Soccer pioneers on float

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You will not want to miss the big Rustico Canada Day parade. This year will be special with some very exciting floats. One in particular that you will really want to see is the Hillis Oil Stars’ soccer display.

The girls on this float (who are a little older now) are the very first female soccer pioneers in Atlantic Canada. The Hillis Oil Stars first registered in the under-12 boys league in 1975. In 1976, we formed the first all-girls league with five teams. Our team played at the Cymbria school on the lower field. We had no equipment, just a soccer ball, a whistle and makeshift goal posts, and we all turned out to cut the field with push mowers.

The Hillis Oil Company of Halifax gave us a dozen or so white T-shirts with the Quaker State Oil logo on them, that was our........

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