Looking back on the summer of ’75

The unemployment rate for students this year was a sky-high 15 per cent; many could have benefited from the same experience we had in 1975.

Andrew Caddell, pictured bottom row, fourth from right, reminisces about the summer of 1975, and the upward trajectory hard work could achieve at the time. Photograph courtesy of Andrew Caddell

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

August 27, 2025

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—As August winds down, I can’t help but think of 1975, my last full summer working at the Chateau Lake Louise in the Rockies. With an abundance of photos on social media and my own fading collection, I am reminded it was five decades ago that we were...

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