Kenneth Farmer

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Kenneth Farmer
Westmount, Quebec
, Canada
DiedJanuary 12, 2005(2005-01-12) (aged 92)
NationalityCanadian
Occupation(s)accountant, ice hockey player, administrator, soldier
Known forPresident of Canadian Olympic Association, Olympic silver medal winner
Ice hockey career
Played for
Playing career 1930–1939
Medal record
Men's
Ice Hockey
Silver medal – second place 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Team

Kenneth Pentin Farmer,

Canadian Olympic Association
, and worked as a chartered accountant.

Background

Born in

Coopers & Lybrand
) and became a Chartered Accountant in 1937. He became a partner in 1945 until his retirement in 1977.

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

Mentioned in Dispatches
in 1945.

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

References

  1. ^ "Ken Farmer Olympic Stats". hockey-reference.com. Retrieved December 4, 2017.
  2. ^ "Condemnation Heaped Upon Canadian Olympic Officials". Winnipeg Free Press. Winnipeg, Manitoba. March 23, 1936. p. 14.Free access icon
  3. ^ "Past Board of Governors" (PDF). Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved December 4, 2017.
  4. ^ a b Ken Farmer at Sports Reference

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