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1946 Memorial Cup
The 1946 Memorial Cup final was the 28th junior ice hockey championship of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association. The George Richardson Memorial Trophy champions Toronto St. Michael's Majors of the Ontario Hockey Association in Eastern Canada competed against the Abbott Cup champions Winnipeg Monarchs of the Manitoba Junior Hockey League in Western Canada. In a best-of-seven series, held at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, Ontario, Winnipeg won their 3rd Memorial Cup, defeating St. Michael's 4 games to 3. Scores *Game 1: Winnipeg 3-2 St. Michael's *Game 2: St. Michael's 5-3 Winnipeg *Game 3: St. Michael's 7-3 Winnipeg *Game 4: Winnipeg 4-3 St. Michael's *Game 5: St. Michael's 7-4 Winnipeg *Game 6: Winnipeg 4-2 St. Michael's *Game 7: Winnipeg 4-2 St. Michael's [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Memorial Cup
The Memorial Cup () is the national championship of the Canadian Hockey League, a consortium of three major junior ice hockey leagues operating in Canada and parts of the United States. It is a four-team round-robin tournament played between the champions of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) and Western Hockey League (WHL), and a fourth, hosting team, which alternates between the three leagues annually. The Memorial Cup trophy was established by Captain James T. Sutherland to honour those who died in service during World War I. It was rededicated during the 2010 tournament to honour all soldiers who died fighting for Canada in any conflict. The trophy was originally known as the OHA Memorial Cup and was donated by the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA) in 1919 to be awarded to the junior ice hockey champion of Canada. From its inception until 1971, the Memorial Cup was open to all Junior A teams in the country and was awarded following a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ontario
Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada. Located in Central Canada, it is Canada's most populous province, with 38.3 percent of the country's population, and is the second-largest province by total area (after Quebec). Ontario is Canada's fourth-largest jurisdiction in total area when the territories of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut are included. It is home to the nation's capital city, Ottawa, and the nation's most populous city, Toronto, which is Ontario's provincial capital. Ontario is bordered by the province of Manitoba to the west, Hudson Bay and James Bay to the north, and Quebec to the east and northeast, and to the south by the U.S. states of (from west to east) Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. Almost all of Ontario's border with the United States f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Memorial Cup Tournaments
A memorial is an object or place which serves as a focus for the memory or the commemoration of something, usually an influential, deceased person or a historical, tragic event. Popular forms of memorials include landmark objects or works of art such as sculptures, statues or fountains and parks. Larger memorials may be known as monuments. Types The most common type of memorial is the gravestone or the memorial plaque. Also common are war memorials commemorating those who have died in wars. Memorials in the form of a cross are called intending crosses. Online memorials are often created on websites and social media to allow digital access as an alternative to physical memorials which may not be feasible or easily accessible. When somebody has died, the family may request that a memorial gift (usually money) be given to a designated charity, or that a tree be planted in memory of the person. Those temporary or makeshift memorials are also called grassroots memorials.''Grassr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Monson
Walter George "Wally, Pop" Monson (November 29, 1908 – January 9, 1988) was a Canadian ice hockey player who competed in the 1932 Winter Olympics. In 1932 he was a member of the Winnipeg Hockey Club, which won the Olympic gold medal for Canada. He played all six matches and scored seven goals. After playing amateur ice hockey with the Saint John Beavers and the Pittsburgh Yellow Jackets, Monson went to the United Kingdom to play professional ice hockey with the Harringay Racers between 1936 and 1940. After World War II, Monson returned to Winnipeg where he coached the Winnipeg Monarchs to the Memorial Cup in 1946. He was inducted into the British Ice Hockey Hall of Fame in 1955. Awards and achievements *Olympic Gold Metalist (1932) *MJHL First All-Star Team Coach (1953) *Inducted into the British Ice Hockey Hall of Fame in 1955 *Honoured Member of the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame The Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame and Museum is a hall of fame and museum for ice hockey in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Tindall
Howard Wilson "Bill" Tindall, Jr. (February 20, 1925 – November 20, 1995) was an American aerospace engineer, NASA engineer and manager. He was an early expert in orbital mechanics and coordinated mission techniques during the Apollo program. In the words of flight director Gene Kranz, Tindall "was pretty much the architect for all of the techniques that we used to go down to the surface of the Moon." Born in New York City in 1925, Tindall grew up in Scituate, Massachusetts and graduated from Scituate High School in 1943. He enlisted in the Navy and served on destroyers in the Pacific, where he became interested in engineering. Tindall earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Brown University in 1948. On graduating, Tindall took a job at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, which was part of the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics, a government agency devoted to aeronautical research. Tindall worked on wind tunnel instrumentation. Tindall's entry into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Taylor (ice Hockey)
Harold Taylor (March 28, 1926 – November 16, 2009) was a professional ice hockey player who played 66 games in the National Hockey League with the Toronto Maple Leafs and Chicago Black Hawks between 1946 and 1952, winning the Stanley Cup in 1949 with Toronto. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1944 to 1958, was spent in the minor leagues. Taylor was born in St. James, Manitoba in 1926 and died in Sidney, British Columbia 2009. Career statistics Regular season and playoffs Awards and achievements * Memorial Cup Championship (1946) * Stanley Cup Championship (1949) * Calder Cup ( AHL) Championship (1951) * Honoured Member of the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame The Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame and Museum is a hall of fame and museum for ice hockey in Manitoba, located on the main level of the Canada Life Centre in downtown Winnipeg. It was established in 1985, when the first honoured members were named an ... External links * Harry Taylor’s biographya 1926 births 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Robertson (ice Hockey)
George Thomas Robertson (11 May 1927 — 9 January 2021) was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward (ice hockey), forward who played 31 games in the National Hockey League between 1948 and 1949 for the Montreal Canadiens. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1947 to 1956, was spent in various minor leagues. He died from COVID-19 in Winnipeg on January 9, 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Manitoba. Awards and achievements *Memorial Cup Championship (1946) *Manitoba Midget 'AAA' Hockey League, MMHL Second All-Star Team (1954) Career statistics Regular season and playoffs References External links * 1927 births 2021 deaths Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States Canadian ice hockey forwards Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada Cincinnati Mohawks (AHL) players Grand Rapids Rockets players Montreal Canadiens players Saskatoon Quakers players Ice hockey people from Winnipeg Springfield Indians players Vancouver Canucks (WHL) players Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cam Millar (Canadian Sportsman)
Campbell Millar (September 9, 1927 – July 9, 2020) was an athlete in football, hockey and golf. He was born in Portage La Prairie. He was a Canadian football 1946 to 1950 player who played for the Calgary Stampeders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers and University of Manitoba. He also played ice hockey and captained the Winnipeg Monarchs, who won the Memorial Cup in 1946. Golfer and Manitoba Junior Golf Champion in 1941. He was inducted into the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame The Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame and Museum is a Canadian museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, dedicated to honoring the history and achievements of sports in Manitoba. The organization began in 1980, and then opened a museum in The Forks in 1993. Afte ... in 2000. Millar was a lawyer after his sporting days, working in the oil and gas industry while living in Calgary, Alberta. References 1927 births 2020 deaths Winnipeg Blue Bombers players {{canadianfootball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gord Fashoway
Gordon Walter Fashoway (June 16, 1926 – May 1, 2012) was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger. During the 1950–51 season, he played in his only 13 National Hockey League (NHL) games for the Chicago Black Hawks. He was born in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. Following the Black Hawks, Fashoway played for several teams in the Western Hockey League: the New Westminster Royals, Victoria Cougars, and Portland Buckaroos, where he ended his professional career in 1963. Upon the conclusion of his playing career, he entered coaching. He became an assistant coach with the expansion Oakland Seals for one year in 1968; after the resignation of Bert Olmstead, he served as head coach of this club for the final ten games of the Seals' inaugural year. He then returned to coach the Buckaroos from 1969 to 1973. Under his leadership, the Buckaroos captured their third WCHL championship in the 1970–71. Awards and achievements *Turnbull Cup MJHL Championship (1946) *Memorial Cup Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Buchanan
Allaster William Buchanan (May 17, 1927 – January 17, 1994) was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played four games in the National Hockey League with the Toronto Maple Leafs in the late 1940s. Awards and achievements *Memorial Cup The Memorial Cup () is the national championship of the Canadian Hockey League, a consortium of three major junior ice hockey leagues operating in Canada and parts of the United States. It is a four-team round-robin tournament played between t ... Championship (1946) External links * 1927 births 1994 deaths Canadian ice hockey left wingers Sportspeople from Winnipeg Maritime Major Hockey League players Ontario Hockey Association Senior A League (1890–1979) players Toronto Maple Leafs players Winnipeg Monarchs players Ice hockey people from Manitoba {{Canada-icehockey-winger-1920s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clint Albright
Clinton Howard "The Professor" Albright (February 28, 1926 – December 30, 1999) was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Albright played 59 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the New York Rangers in the 1948–49 season, wearing the number fifteen on his jersey. He was one of few players to wear glasses on the ice. Albright played junior hockey for the Winnipeg Monarchs, and twice went to the Memorial Cup with them, winning the tournament in 1946. At the University of Manitoba to study mechanical engineering, Albright played for the university team, and also played for the Allan Cup with the Winnipeg Flyers. After his single season with the Rangers, Albright returned to school to complete his degree, and was out of hockey all together by 1954. Career statistics Awards and achievements *Memorial Cup The Memorial Cup () is the national championship of the Canadian Hockey League, a consortium of three major junior ice hock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
