Galt Knights 1974 Squirts
1974 Ontario Squirt A Softball Champions (OASA) The 1974 Galt Squirt Knights of Columbus softball team won both the Inter-County championship in 1974 and the Ontario Squirt A softball championship. The team, which played its home games at Galt’s Victoria Park, was coached by Reid Little and boasted an all-star lineup. They lost only one […]
Galt Knights 1977-78 Squirts
Ontario Squirt Softball Champions Even before they won back-to-back provincial championships, coach Reid Little knew he had a talented bunch of ball players in the late 1970s. His squad, the Galt Knights squirt softball team, captured two consecutive provincial championships beginning in 1977. Capping off those championship seasons was local recognition as Cambridge team of […]
Galt Hornets 1970-71
Allan Cup Champions When the Galt Hornets defeated Calgary in four straight games to win the coveted 1971 Allan Cup Championship, it had only been two years since they had last won the same trophy, symbolic of senior hockey supremacy. Many of the players were the same, as was the manager, Wes Lillie, but there […]
Hough & Ladret
Christine “Tuffy” Hough and Doug Ladret, under the guidance of coach Kerry Leitch at the Preston Figure Skating Club, were Canada’s top pairs figure skating team in the late 1980s and early 1990s. “Being national champion in an Olympic year was extremely special,” recalled Ladret. “What made it even more special was that we were […]
Don Laurence
July 22, 1933 – February 25, 2009 Don Laurence has been an integral part of the sporting fabric of Cambridge for a lifetime. A Cambridge native who spent his boyhood years in Preston, Laurence took to sports early. And he loved them. Baseball and hockey were the main sports, but almost anything that required athletic […]
Ken ‘Jiggs’ McDonald
Born in Galt, Emmy award-winning broadcaster Ken “Jiggs” McDonald got his start as an announcer early. A resident of Ayr who attended Galt Collegiate from 1952-1956, the teenaged Jiggs took part in a weekly GCI program, served as a goal judge, and enthusaistically took up P.A. announcing. If he couldn’t be a hockey player, he […]
Robert ‘Bush’ McWhirter
November 16, 1890 – May 3, 1964 Robert ‘Bush’ McWhirter was from the old school, and it was a great day for baseball in Galt when he came to town to coach the Galt Terriers in 1921. McWhirter, a Toronto native who had played professional baseball with the AAA Toronto Maple Leafs – he turned […]
Al Murray
Nov. 10, 1906 – Jan. 7, 1982 When former NHLer Allan Murray came to Galt to coach the Junior A Galt Kist Canadians, he had only been in the coaching business for three years, yet already he was regarded as one of the outstanding coaches in junior hockey. He knew hockey. Murray, a defenseman, grew […]
Barry Sullivan
September 21, 1926 – June 5, 1989 Barry Sullivan loved hockey from an early age and although he retired from the sport at 26, he carved out a successful amateur and professional career. He came from a hockey family. His father, Harry Sullivan, had some success as a player, having played on a team that […]
GCI Boys Volleyball 1990
OFSAA Volleyball Champions The Galt Collegiate boys volleyball team was a special group in the early 1990s. With coaches Rob Atkinson, a former university coach and London product with considerable volleyball acumen, and former all-Canadian basketball player Seymour Hadwen at the helm, the team got expert coaching with a generous dose of self-confidence. But there […]