If you want to dry out your sopping wet winter boots and mitts without turning on the dryer, you may want to use a specially designed rack that sits on a forced-air register. Canadians know it does the job beautifully.
And you can thank the late Lorne McCartney of Ottawa for that rack.
McCartney was a captain in the Canadian Armed Forces who served in Germany in the 1970s. He attended the Royal Military College of Canada alongside astronaut Marc Garneau and retired lieutenant-general and senator Roméo Dallaire.
McCartney also is the designer of that first mitt and boot dryer that Canadians have grown to
