George Aitkin
George Aitkin personifies the sport of running, not only in Cambridge, but throughout southern Ontario and across Canada. Anything to do with running in Cambridge or the vicinity within the last 40 or 50 years, means that Aitkin has likely been part of it, one way or another, as runner, organizer, coach or photographer. The […]
Orlo Myshrall
Orlo Myshrall, born in Toronto, grew up in New Brunswick (Woodstock H.S.), but during his peak years as an archer, he called Cambridge home. As a youngster, he recalls, “shooting was everything, an growing up on a farm, we always had firearms. I was never any good at hockey or golf and things like that, […]
Scott Thorman
At Preston High School Scott Thorman was known as a gifted athlete as was one of his good friends, Nathan Brannen. Both made it to OFSAA: Brannen in distance events, and Thorman in the javelin. Thorman would go on to play baseball in the Major Leagues for the Atlanta Braves, while Brannen would become a […]
Harry MacKendrick
On a summer afternoon in August 1920, Henry Ford, one of the best-known men in the world, drove unceremoniously into Galt to see his Canadian friend, Dr. Harry F. MacKendrick. MacKendrick was no stranger to fame, though his fame paled in comparison to that enjoyed by Ford. In the last decade of the 19th century […]
Jim Baird
Retired teacher Jim Baird has had a long love affair with sports – he played softball from the age of 10 onwards – but if there is one thing he has come to be known for, it’s basketball. A former president of the Ontario Basketball Association, Baird is a 1997 winner of the Don and […]
Rick Downton
Cambridge’s Rick Downton was a member of the Cambridge Minor Baseball executive for many years, beginning when he joined the league in 1985 as a house league coach. During the next couple of decades he held many positions within the CMBA including registrar, umpire, sponsorship convenor, house league coach, and coach of select and travel […]
Thomas J “Dubby” Duvall
When Thomas ‘Dubby’ Duvall died at the age of 67, the community lost a true champion of minor sports. One of 18 children born in Thorold, Ontario to Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Duvall, he came to Galt as a young boy and lived there until moving to Hespeler for the final 28 years of his […]
Galt Track & Field Club (1946/1947/1948 Berwick Races)
Galt’s formidable track club entry of Ab Morton, Scotty Rankine, Bill Memmott and Art Wilson, was perhaps the finest community distance running team in the world in the mid-to-late 1940s. The team won the team prize at the Canadian Marathon Championships in 1947, with Morton taking first, Rankine second and Memmott eighth. At the famed […]
1964 Hespeler Jr “C” Hockey Club
When the Hespeler Junior C Shamrocks were presented with the Clarence Schmalz Cup at the conclusion ofthe 1964 hockey season, they had achieved all they had set out to do from the start -, namely, win the Ontario championship. They were all smiles as they set out for Lindsay that year to play the final […]
John Rothwell
It was his work that brought Toronto-born John Rothwell to Preston in October 1966 (by way of London and Winnipeg), and from the start, he was impressed with what he saw. On the move in those early years due to his job — he worked for K-Mart — soon after arriving in Preston a couple […]