John Flett (November 19, 1871 – December 13, 1932) was a

Canadian Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...

lacrosse Lacrosse is a team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game was extensively ...

player who competed in the

1904 Summer 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 ...

. He was born in Kildonan, Manitoba and died in

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. In 1904 he was member of the ''Shamrock Lacrosse Team'' which won the gold medal in the lacrosse tournament.

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1871 births 1932 deaths Olympic lacrosse players for Canada Lacrosse players at the 1904 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Canada Medalists at the 1904 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in lacrosse 20th-century Canadian people {{canada-lacrosse-bio-stub