Lambton Le Breton Mount (12 March 1836 – 12 June 1931) was a Canadian-born Australian businessman. He is credited with introducing the sport of lacrosse to Australia. In 1853, Mount emigrated from Canada to

Victoria, Australia Victoria is a state in southeastern Australia. It is the second-smallest state with a land area of , the second most populated state (after New South Wales) with a population of over 6.5 million, and the most densely populated state in Au ...

with other family members. During the early 1860s, he was a well-known athlete,

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against

H. C. A. Harrison Henry Colden Antill Harrison (16 October 1836 – 2 September 1929) was an athlete and Australian rules footballer who played a leading role in pioneering the sport. Harrison's cousin, champion cricketer Tom Wills, captained an early incarnat ...

in a series of foot races. In 1866, with his brother Frank and the poet

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, Mount migrated to

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, where they were business partners in an unsuccessful sheep farm at Balingup. The Mounts were also early settlers in the north west Western Australia and held a

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on the

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, between 1866 and 1868. They then returned to Victoria. Mount imported forty lacrosse sticks in 1876, an initiative that led to the first match of lacrosse held in Australia, at Albert Park. The sport grew quickly and within two years, the Victorian Lacrosse Association had 120 members. In his later years, Mount was prominent as a manufacturer of glass bottles in Melbourne. He became president of the

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and was on the Commission for the Centennial International Exhibition in 1888.

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Australian lacrosse players Canadian emigrants to Australia 1836 births 1931 deaths {{Lacrosse-bio-stub

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