Athletics – Toronto Island History

Ice Sports a tradition on Toronto Bay

Posted by Edward English On 17 March 2022 10 February 2024 Filed under Athletics, Boats, Newspaper No Comments

Created by: Frank Redican Printed by: Globe and Mail Date: Digitized by: Ted English Provenance: From the archives of Ted English

Island Canoe Club 1943

Posted by Eric Zhelka On 27 July 2021 12 February 2024 Filed under Athletics, Newspaper, Research 1 Comment

Island Canoe Club 1943 Created by: Ed Guthrie Date: 1943-08-06 Provenance: From the archives of Ed Guthrie. Scanned by Ed Guthrie; PDF by Eric Zhelka. Notes: Original History of the Island Canoe Club & Otterburn Boating Club: 23rd Annual Regatta, Programme & Score Card; & Montreal Daily Star newspaper clipping dated 1943-08-06

Historicist: The People’s Champion

Posted by Edward English On 7 April 2019 11 February 2024 Filed under Athletics, Bios-Obits, Document No Comments

Historicist: The People’s Champion

The impressive, inspiring, and possibly unsportsmanlike athletic exploits of Ned Hanlan.

By-Line: Kevin Plummer
Created by: https://torontoist.com/
Date: 2013-09-07
Provenance: digitized & reformatted by Ted English
Notes:

Toronto Islands resident to row across Atlantic

Posted by Edward English On 13 February 2018 26 February 2018 Filed under Athletics, Boats, Newspaper No Comments

Toronto Islands resident to row across the Atlantic

Created by: Globe and Mail
By-line: Ian Merringer, Special to the Globe and Mail
Photogrph by: Fernndo Morales
Date: 7 Jan 2011
Provenance: Scanned and assembled by Ted English from an original copy
Notes:

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Toronto Rowing Club

Posted by Edward English On 3 September 2017 4 September 2017 Filed under Athletics No Comments

Sunday Morning At The Toronto Rowing Club

Created By: The Toronto World, from a fragment of the original 1905 newspaper

Date: 08-27-1905

Provenance: From the archives of Ted English

Comment: My best guess is that Eddie Durnan is pictured at right standing on stern of boat and “Doc” Durnan is first on left, standing, suited, with “skimmer”