Carmen Douma-Hussar
Carmen Douma running for Villanova University at the NCAA Track and Field Championships in Buffalo, N.Y. during the late 1990s. She won the 1500 metres. Hespeler native Carmen Douma-Hussar is without a doubt the finest female middle distance runner Cambridge has ever produced. What’s more, she is one the finest in Canadian history. A native […]
Lorne Siegle
Lorne Siegle, who was born in Hespeler, was a legend in the horse jumping world. “We couldn’t get enough of watching him and trying to learn by seeing what he did, how he rode, how he trained his horses and how he looked after his horses,” said two-time Olympian Torchy Millar of Siegle. “He was […]
Anne Dunn
Anne Dunn is a curling fixture not only in her home town of Cambridge, Ontario, but across Canada and throughout the curling world. Born in Toronto on May 27, 1947, Anne Vale was about 15 when her family came to Galt. Although the family had moved around due to her father’s work, when they arrived […]
Jason Gooding
As early as anyone can remember, baseball pitcher Jason Gooding was a standout on the ball diamond, and as he developed up the ranks, he excelled at every level. As a teenager, he was almost unbeatable. While playing for the Cambridge Bulldogs Junior Intercounty team, he and batterymate Chad Dube were a force to be […]
Bob Eccles
The summer of 1967 was memorable for the Centennial celebrations and projects that that took place across Canada, and for Expo 67 in Montreal, the world’s most successful World’s Fair. But in fastball circles, there was something else that stood out the summer of ’67. It occurred on the night of June 27, during a […]
Peter Kowalchuk
Born in Buchanan, Saskatchewan to Michael and Dora Kowalchuk in 1934, the 5’10” 180-lb right winger gained a reputation at an early age as a top prospect. Peter was the third youngest in a family of eight, and when the family moved to Ontario, he played minor hockey in North Bay. He played for the […]
Galt Squirts Softball Champs
The Galt Squirts all-star softball team captured its first OASA provincial championship in 1961 and repeated for the next three years. The boys were coached by Tubby Collins from 1961-63, and by manager-coach Jerry Russell. Their record of four consecutive provincial wins still stands to this day (2017). In addition, the club won numerous Inter-County […]
Cynthia Coull & Mark Rowsom
During their peak years Cynthia Coull (born in 1965 in Greenfield Park, Quebec) and her pairs partner Mark Rowsom (born April 16, 1959) were the top pairs skaters in Canada and among the best in the world. Yet theirs was a pairing that almost never happened. Coach Kerry Leitch was trying new partners with Rowsom, […]
Herb Morton
Galt native Herb Morton was born to Irish immigrants Joseph and Catherine in the old Galt Hospital during the Great Depression, and grew up not too far away. He was part of a large family (seven children), and although most of his siblings were born in Canada, two older brothers were born in Ireland. He […]
Brenda Gilmore
She is the mother of Cambridge Sports Hall of Famer Crystal Gilmore, but has some impressive sports credentials in her own right. Born in Fort William, Ontario (present-day Thunder Bay), she moved to southern Ontario at the age of three. Not long after, she began her figure skating career at six with the Hamilton Stoney Creek […]