Kenneth Farmer
Kenneth Farmer | |||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Westmount, Quebec , Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||
Died | January 12, 2005 | (aged 92)||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Canadian | ||||||||||||||||||||
Occupation(s) | accountant, ice hockey player, administrator, soldier | ||||||||||||||||||||
Known for | President of Canadian Olympic Association, Olympic silver medal winner | ||||||||||||||||||||
|
Kenneth Pentin Farmer,
Background
Born in
Farmer was an outstanding hockey player. He was a member of the 1936 Port Arthur Bearcats, which won the silver medal for Canada in ice hockey at the 1936 Winter Olympics. He had the second highest points at the Olympics with 10 goals and four assists.[1] Canada had been expected to win the gold medal, but several incidents led to winning the silver medal instead. After the Olympics, Farmer stated that none of Canada's officials knew what playoff system was being used and that E. A. Gilroy and Fred Marples "were blissfully unaware of what it was all about".[2]
During
From 1953 to 1961, he was the President of the Canadian Olympic Association. He was President of the Commonwealth Games Association of Canada from 1977 to 1983. He was a Governor of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame from 1980 to 1990.[3]
Honours
- 1971, inducted into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame in 1971[4]
- 1981, made a Member of the Order of Canada
- 1987, inducted into the Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame as a member of the 1936 Olympic team
- 1999, inducted to the McGill University Sports Hall of Fame[4]
References
- ^ "Ken Farmer Olympic Stats". hockey-reference.com. Retrieved December 4, 2017.
- ^ "Condemnation Heaped Upon Canadian Olympic Officials". Winnipeg Free Press. Winnipeg, Manitoba. March 23, 1936. p. 14.
- ^ "Past Board of Governors" (PDF). Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved December 4, 2017.
- ^ a b Ken Farmer at Sports Reference
Sources
- "Canadian Who's Who 1997 entry". University of Toronto Press.[permanent dead link]
- "OBIT: Olympian Ken Farmer dies at 92". McGill University. Archived from the original on May 3, 2006.
- "OBIT: Ken Farmer, oldest surviving Redmen player". McGill University. Archived from the original on May 3, 2006.
External links
- Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com