Elizabeth Florence Hamilton (née Robson, later Hale; August 10, 1918 – January 30, 2011) was a Canadian fencer. She competed in the women's individual

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. Born and raised in Montreal, she was a daughter of Alfred Atkinson and Maud Robson; her father was killed in a 1921 workplace accident at the National Drug Company in which a boiler exploded. In 1943, she married future politician

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, the son of Ernie Hamilton, who competed in lacrosse for Canada at the

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. She later married F. Earle Hale around 1953 and attended

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to earn a

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degree after which she worked as a librarian in Montreal. She moved to Lethbridge, Alberta in 1999 and died there in 2011 at the age of 92.

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1918 births 2011 deaths Canadian female fencers Olympic fencers for Canada Fencers at the 1948 Summer Olympics Fencers from Montreal 20th-century Canadian women {{Canada-fencing-bio-stub