Citations:monkey trail

English citations of monkey trail

• 1975, Melinda McCracken, Memories Are Made of This, Toronto: James Lorimer & Co., p 37:

  The vacant land where River Park had been became known as the Prairie. For kids it was full of mystery, with its little train tracks in the weeds, its overgrown foundations and old bear pits. We went there to fly kites, or with Mrs. Struthers to have a wiener roast on Sue’s birthday; we rode our bikes on the sinuous paths which became known as the Monkey Trails, because of the monkey-tail way they snaked through the bushes.

• 1984, Marguerite Murray, The Sea Bears, New York: Atheneum, p 96:

  “Monkey Trail’s some overgrown,” he observed. ¶ “What Monkey Trail?” ¶ “Starting right here, we young fellers used to climb straight down to the sea. There weren’t no house here then," he explained.

• 1994, John Danakas, Soccer Showdown, Toronto: James Lorimer & Co., p 69:

  We could be riding our bikes over the monkey trails alongside the river in Assiniboine Park, or enjoying a cone of gelati at the Italian grocery, or even picking another movie to watch at the video store.

• 2001, John Danakas, Brothers on Ice, Toronto: James Lorimer & Co., p 96:

  We love visiting the planetarium, climbing onto the Nonsuch at the museum, riding up the elevator to the top of Fort Garry Place, cycling the monkey trails at Assiniboine Park, and pointing out the Golden Boy on top of the Legislative Building when we’re driving home from downtown at night.

• 2010, Stevie Cameron, On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and Vancouver’s Missing Women, Toronto: Vintage Canada, p 23:

  “We all lived close to the barren prairie . . . From my house a half-block up the street, civilization stopped. It was a great playground that [we] explored at great lengths. The whole area was intertwined with paths. We would spend the summer re-exploring these ‘monkey trails’ on our bikes or playing war.”