Albert Edison Austin (November 1, 1888 – February 5, 1913) was a Canadian Olympic athlete. He was the second son of Albert W. Austin, a prominent businessman and founder of the

Lambton Golf and Country Club The Lambton Golf and Country Club is a private golf and tennis club in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The golf club was established by Albert William Austin in 1902. The golf club is presently members with Golf Canada, and the United States Golf Associa ...

. He grew up in

Winnipeg Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749,6 ...

, where his father ran the streetcar system. The family later moved to

Toronto Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the ancho ...

, and Bertie spent the latter part of his youth living at

Spadina House Spadina Museum: Historic House & Gardens, also known as Spadina House (), is a historic mansion at 285 Spadina Road in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that is now a historic house museum operated by the City of Toronto's Economic Development & Culture ...

, today a museum. Bertie, his father, and Lambton club champion George Lyon traveled to St. Louis for the

1904 Olympics The 1904 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the III Olympiad and also known as St. Louis 1904) were an international multi-sport event held in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, from 29 August to 3 September 1904, as part of an extended s ...

. The Olympics in that era were more casual, and to participate, one merely needed to show up and pay the entry fee. Bertie finished 65th of 75 competitors, but Lyon went on to win the gold medal. Bertie died of tuberculosis at the age of 24 in

Cairo, Egypt Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metro ...

."Book of Remembrance", Austin Family Papers, Spadina Museum: Historic House & Gardens.

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Canadian male golfers Amateur golfers Olympic golfers for Canada Golfers at the 1904 Summer Olympics Golfing people from Manitoba Golfing people from Ontario Sportspeople from Winnipeg Sportspeople from Toronto Tuberculosis deaths in Egypt 20th-century deaths from tuberculosis 1888 births 1913 deaths {{Canada-golf-bio-stub