Historicist: The People’s Champion

Historicist: The People’s Champion
- Created by: https://torontoist.com/
- By-Line: Kevin Plummer
- Date: 09-07-2013
- Provenance: digitized & reformatted by Ted English
- Notes:
Historicist: The People’s Champion
Toronto Islands resident to row across the Atlantic
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”
Island Canoe Club 1943 Documents: Original History of the Island Canoe Club & Otterburn Boating Club: 23rd Annual Regatta, Programme & Score Card; & Montreal Daily Star newspaper clipping Date: 6 Aug 1943 Provenance: From the archives of Ed Guthrie Digitized by: Ed Guthrie, from his collection of Island clippings.