Hi Bill,
Hope you had a nice time in Canada, yes the Deagon is still held in Capel Curig.It was first held in the early 60's in Bryn Bras Castle, LLanrug.My mum used to live a few hundred yards away.It then went to the old RAF site at Glyn Rhonwy, LLanberis on land farmed by my dad.We had to shift the sheep every year to safer ground, not sure why though!!.I attended the rally a few times at Gwrych Castle near Abergele but then lost interest as it changed a lot.I do remember seeing many racing stars of the day attending the rally, Chris Vincent,Paul Smart,Nigel Rollason etc.Didn't Paul Smart fall off and break his leg when arriving one year?.Incidentally the LLanberis site was used on numerous occassions by Barton Motors of Caernarfon who used to test the Barton 3 cylinder race bikes there, they even tested a machine raced by Barry Sheene there once.
The rally went too big as one year 6000 came to LLanberis, a small village of 2000 people.The rally was 2nd only to the Elephant rally held in Germany which as far as I know is also still going strong.