A. Gordon MacDonald

Year Inducted: 1997

A. Gordon Macdonald of Kirkland Lake will be inducted into the Glengarry Sports Hall of Fame later this summer. Macdonald was born in Alexandria in 1885, son of A.D.R. Macdonald and Rachel MacMaster. A loc...

Wanda J. Mitchell

Year Inducted: 2005

Wanda Mitchell was one of the biggest supporters of High School female athletes. The Bainsville native left a lasting impression on OFSSA and EOSSAA foundations.

She spent fifteen years as the Eastern Ontar...

Cameron McDonald

Year Inducted: 2003

Cameron McDonald was born at the Century Farm, Lot 37, 7th Concession of Lancaster on February 3rd, 1920 and spent his entire life there. His love of everything in nature developed from growing up on the farm...

Joseph Paul Grant

Year Inducted: 1981

Joseph Paul Grant was born in Alexandria, March 23, 1884. He was a twin brother of John Alexander Grant. Their parents were John Alexander Grant and his wife the former Janet Morgan.

Joseph Paul Grant recei...

Cliff Rae

Year Inducted: 2008

Cliff Rae was born in Montreal, on August 30th, 1928. He was educated in Greenfield Park Royal George School, and St. Lambert High School. He moved to Toronto in 1948 and began his career in purchasing while taking ...

Henry Dumouchel

Year Inducted: 1989

Henry Dumouchel is best described as a journeyman athlete and organizer. He played most games in the realm of sport expect the one he loved the most, football. The reason Henry didn’t star on the gridiron wa...

Tony MacDonald

Year Inducted: 2007

Tony was born in 1947 and like most Glengarry boys he played hockey on the ponds and rivers, in this case, around Green Valley. He began organized minor hockey in Green Valley and then went on to play in variou...

William Gebbie

Year Inducted: 1991

From his youth in minor hockey, at the one-time Glengarry Gardens, "Billy" Gebbie of Alexandria was a devoted sports fan. He was especially interested in minor hockey, the Junior B. Alexandria Glens,and the Old...

Antoine Alphonse Ligouri Bonneville

Year Inducted: 1985

Christened Antoine Alphonse Ligouri Bonneville, Pete was born March 10, 1913. His father was Alfred Bonneville and his mother, the former Angela Richer of Summerstown. The Bonneville family...

1920's Martintown Tug-of-War Team

Year Inducted: 1984

The famous Martintown Tug-of-War Team of the 1920's won many a pull. They competed and conquered in tug-of-wars outside the county, and cherish two of these victories in particular. The first...

John Thomas "J.T." Hay

Year Inducted: 1991

The subject of our Glengarry Sports Hall of Fame biography was christened John Thomas to the family surname of Hay. However, similar to most boys especially after they enroll in elementary school, a len...

Dr. Donald (Major) MacRae

Year Inducted: 1981

Donald MacRae was born December 23, 1896, son of William Donald MacRae and his wife, the former Agnes Burton Campbell. The MacRae home is one of the head water banks on the Scotch River a short dista...

1913 Alexandria Lacrosse Team

Year Inducted: 1989

In 1913 the Alexandria lacrosse team defeated Ottawa in the Eastern Ontario finals. An Ontario championship was arranged between Brampton, the Western Ontario champions, and Alexandria.

Neither ...

Margaret Cattanach

Year Inducted: 2004

Margaret Cattanach was born February 20, 1896 the daughter of John and Margaret Cattanach of Williamstown, Ontario. She attended Williamstown Public School and then Williamstown High School where she was an...

Murray Stewart MacQueen

Year Inducted: 2005

Murray Stewart MacQueen was born November 24, 1925 to parents Catherine Stewart and John MacQueen. He spent his early years in the Skye Road area where he attended the local elementary school, then lat...

John Joseph MacDonald

Year Inducted: 1987

“Joe,” “J.J.” or “Joe Blue Room” as he was popularly known was the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. John Laughlin MacDonald, lot 22, 2nd Concession, Lochiel (Glen Robertson road). He was born April...

Monsignor Ewen John Macdonald

Year Inducted: 1984

Glengarry's greatest historian in our time was born in a pioneer home, Lochiel lot 33, north side 9th Lancaster Township road. He was christened New Year's Day 1884, in St. Finnan's Church. His g...

Morlin Campbell

Year Inducted: 1999

Selected for 1999 induction into the Glengarry Sports Hall of Fame, Morlin Campbell has been a community - oriented person since his youth. Morlin was born July 14, 1922 and has lived on the family farm at Lag...

Roger Levert

Year Inducted: 2011

Born in Cornwall in 1947, Roger Levert came to Alexandria with his family when they opened a convenience store and restaurant on the present Alexandria Pizzeria site. Roger's favourite sports were football, lacro...

Ralph MacSweyn

Year Inducted: 1993

Ralph MacSweyn, one of the area's greatest hockey players, will be inducted into the Glengarry Sports Hall of Fame at the annual Induction Dinner September 8 in Maxville. To call Ralph an 'award-winning' athlet...

Frank McCormick

Year Inducted: 1990

Tawaarathon, the Indian name for lacrosse, was popularily played in Glengarry from the 1880s to the 1920s when interest declined until the later revival of box lacrosse. The sodded, lengthy field game was play...

John Jamieson

Year Inducted: 1985

John Jamieson’s parents were Mr. and Mrs. Wm. (Billy) Jamieson. Their farm home was on the fringe of Sorn, Ayreshire, south of Glasgow. John was born there, October 10, 1903.

At age 22, in 1925, John Jamieson...

Alex Sullivan

Year Inducted: 1986

Williamstown was the home of pioneer tinsmith and lacrosse great Jeremiah "Gerry" Sullivan and his wife the former Theresa MacPherson.

Emerging from this home, in addition to one daughter, were six boys, all at...

John Howard Carey

Year Inducted: 1990

Howard Carey, an induction nominee in the Glengarry Sports Hall of Fame, September 12th, Maxville, may be fittingly classed as a descendant of Glengarry’s cradle of athletes, Williamstown and area.

Althou...

Major William Ewing

Year Inducted: 1988

Bill Ewing, a Glengarrian by adoption for many years, as a high school student played football at West Hill, Montreal. Unlike most young athletes Bill Ewing favored target shooting instead of football and ...

Robert MacKinnon

Year Inducted: 2006

Bob MacKinnon had a positive impact on amateur hockey locally and nationally for almost four decades. Mr. McKinnon, 64, of Oakville was the chairman of the Canadian Hockey Association from 1997 to 1999 and wa...

Ewen J. MacPhee

Year Inducted: 1998

Ewen John MacPhee was born on August 1, 1929, in the 14th of Lochiel, the son of Alex Willie MacPhee and Maggie (MacMillan) MacPhee.

His athletic skills were developed on the frozen ponds and cow pastures of ...

William Keith MacLeod

Year Inducted: 1980

William Keith MacLeod is the son of the late Duncan William MacLeod and his wife the former Catharine Chisholm. He was born on the MacLeod farm homestead-Skye, January 29th, 1904.

He was named William K...

Dr. James Arthur Patrick Sullivan

Year Inducted: 1981

The Williamstown surname of Sullivan is synonymous with Glengarry luminaries in lacrosse and hockey. Dr. James Arthur Patrick Sullivan, born January 15, 1895, the second son of Jeremiah “Je...

Julie Rouette-Hope

Year Inducted: 2007

Julie Rouette-Hope was born in 1964. Julie loved sports from a very young age, playing soccer, baseball, hockey, and football with the neighbours. At the age of 12, Julie joined the Glengarry Soccer League ...

James Yeo Baker

Year Inducted: 1998

One of the "Big Guns" in track and field during the 1930's, James Yeo Baker has been inducted into the Glengarry Sports Hall of Fame. Born in Dalhousie Mills, the eldest son of Mary Sharkey and Dr.James Yeo Ba...

William Donald MacNeil

Year Inducted: 1987

At a general meeting of enthusiastic football sportsmen, early May. 1924, in the Orange Hall, Dunvegan, the playing of football in Glengarry was formally organized. Dunvegan, Maxville and Greenfield for...

Wellington James Cameron Barrett

Year Inducted: 1979

Wellington J.C. Barrett was born June, 10, 1892, a son of Mr. and Mrs. William Barrett, Summerstown Station.

"Wellie" Barrett, as he has been popularly known throughout his life, short for We...

1923 Lancaster Tug-of-War Team

Year Inducted: 2007

Tug of War was a popular sport nearly one hundred years ago. Every town/village had a team and there was great rivalry when their teams met on a regular schedule. The Lancaster Tug of War team w...

Joseph Corbett

Year Inducted: 1983

Joseph Corbett was born April 19th, 1873, in Alexandria. He was a son of John Corbett and his wife, the former Janet MacDonald. Again, like a lot of boys from school days, and throughout his life, this great at...

Louise Purcell Clark

Year Inducted: 2000

Louise Purcell Clark as been a resident of Glengarry all her life. The family home is situated on Purcell Road in Glen Water. This historic Purcell home was sold to the Knights of Columbus Council 5068 in...

Ronald Hugh MacLachlan

Year Inducted: 1994

Ronnie MacLachlan was born in Montreal, Que. on January 27, 1919, the son of Neil MacLachlan, a Scottish immigrant, and Jessie MacNeil of Glen Sandfield.

He spent his childhood years both in Montreal a...

Clarence L. MacGregor

Year Inducted: 1989

Clarence MacGregor was a distinguished worker on the Maxville Village Council and various community projects.

In the latter, he was a member of the organizing committee of the Glengarry Highland Games i...

Don Bond

Year Inducted: 2011

Don Bond has spent his entire life participating in sports as a player, a coach, or an organizer in some capacity. Born in Vankleek Hill, he attended VCI where he played hockey, football and held three track and fiel...

Hugh Duncan MacDermid

Year Inducted: 1981

Hugh Duncan MacDermid was born, December, 22, 1882, a son of Duncan MacDermid and his wife the former Catherine MacDermid.

The MacDermid's farm home was in the Indian Lands, ninth concession of Charlott...

Harold MacDonald

Year Inducted: 2004

Harold MacDonald, a true Glengarry sportsman, was born to Wilfred and Daphne MacDonald, February 12th, 1942. Harold, one of eleven children, was brought up on a farm on the Raisin River Road, now Loyalist Roa...

Edmond Rochon

Year Inducted: 2004

In the thirties lacrosse players had many fans, among them were the Rochon boys. They were great stick handlers, but because of their age and the fact that the brand of lacrosse being played at that time was in ...

Margaret Josephine Cook Mutch

Year Inducted: 1996

Margaret Mutch, who helped spearhead an extensive minor sports program in Maxville in the 1950's, will be inducted September 4th as a member of the Glengarry Sports Hall of Fame.

She will be joi...

Dr. Donald David Randolph McLennan

Year Inducted: 1987

Dr. McLennan's renowned achievements in hockey, lacrosse, football and Caledonia Games that began here in the Glens about 100 years ago will be perpetuated for all time by his induction into...

Joan Ryan

Year Inducted: 2010

Born in August 1943 the middle child of a family of seven Joan moved from St. Polycarpe, Quebec to St. Raphael’s in 1948. After high school she began bowling and excelled at it, having the local high-triple and hi...

Lawrence Currier

Year Inducted: 1986

The biographies of two 1986 Sports Hall of Fame inductees, Lawrence Currier and Lawrence Coleman, are unique in Glengarry sport history. They are justifiably classed as builders and stalwart players of the or...

Archibald J. "Archie" MacDonald

Year Inducted: 1993

Mention the word “Archie’s” to residents of Cornwall and area and they immediately tink of golf. Archie’s Golf Range was started in 1955 by Glengarry native, Archie T. Macdonald, who ne...

Johanne Lynne Cholette Pattyn

Year Inducted: 1996

Johanna Cholette first picked up a barbell in 1981. By the end of 1982, she was Ontario’s female powerlifting champion and a few months later she captured the Canadian title. By the time she re...

Ovide Doiron

Year Inducted: 2001

Ovide Dorion was born on the 22nd of September 1940 in Shediac, New Brunswick. At the age of 15, he ventured off to Montreal and quickly became involved in a passion that has lasted over 50 years, that of racecar...

Russell Raymond

Year Inducted: 1999

The majority of Glengarry soccer players never earn the opportunity to hoist the championship trophy. Russel Raymond savored this act of celebration on 18 occasions, 11 as a coach and seven as a player.

Atten...

John D. MacLeod

Year Inducted: 1989

A native of Skye area of Dunvegan, John was a budding soccer star in his youth. In maturity he was popularly known as "Big John" and became outstanding in the position of fullback.

John was a member of the 19...

Taylor Coombs

Year Inducted: 2007

Taylor Coombs was born in 1917 in Troy, New York. His family soon moved to Ottawa. From an early age Taylor was interested in all types of sports but excelled in basketball, playing on championship teams at both...

Clarence Alexander Cattanach

Year Inducted: 1984

Clarence Alexander Cattanach was born in Williamstown, December, 23rd, 1885. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Cattanach.

Clarence Cattanach as he was known throughout his life was one of Gleng...

Gordon Fraser

Year Inducted: 2000

Gordon M. Fraser was born April 12 1943 on Lot. 26, Concession 9 in the township of Lochiel. He was the third of five sons born to William Fraser and his wife, Olive McIlwain. Gordon’s early days were spent on...

Ronald Joseph MacDonald

Year Inducted: 2009

Ronald Joseph MacDonald, born March 5th, 1932 is not the first of his family to be inducted. Namely, he is following suit of Alexander “Big Alex” MacDonald, Ralph MacSweyn, and J. Alex (Angus John)...

Gordon Mc Neil

Year Inducted: 1989

Gordon McNeil, 79-year-old horseman, Williamstown, is rated among the premier drivers in Eastern Ontario, Western Quebec plus the Ottawa Ex and the Toronto Royal. He established that reputation beginning at the...

Angus Simon George

Year Inducted: 1995

Angus George was among the greatest box lacrosse players in North America at the height of the game’s popularity in the 1930's and 1940's.

A native of the village of St. Regis on the Akwesasne Mohawk Res...

Octave Larocque

Year Inducted: 1980

Octave Larocque was a son of Hyacinth Larocque and his wife the former Madeline St. Louis. He was born in Williamstown, March 3rd, 1891. Although christened Octave he was affectionately known throughout his li...

Bernard Major

Year Inducted: 2000

After being a demonstration sport in 1988 and 1992, Taekwon-do makes its debut as a full-medal sport at the Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia this September.

It is the newest of the martial arts established so...

Bruno Major

Year Inducted: 1991

Canoe paddling history is repeating itself for the second successive year in the annals of the Glengarry Sports hall of Fame history with the induction of Bruno Major following that of Maurice Sauvé last year’s...

Charles Francis Gauthier

Year Inducted: 1979

Charles Francis Gauthier was born August 21, 1886, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Nappie Gauthier, lot one in the 4th, Kenyon. He was educated in Alexandria separate and high schools. He continued his studies ...

Josephus Filion

Year Inducted: 1999

Josephus (Joe) A. Filion (1903-1965) was born in Alexandria, the oldest of a family of five boys and two girls. He attended the Alexandria schools but it was his father, Josephus Filion, who taught him his tra...

Carman E. Marshall

Year Inducted: 1993

Carman Marshall was born in 1929 at Woodlawn, west of Ottawa. His father was a railroad employee, and one of his many transfers took the family to Brockville where Carman played peewee and bantam hockey.

T...

Gilles Joanette

Year Inducted: 2001

Gilles was born September 14, 1940 the only son of Alfred and Cecile Joanette who lived on a dairy farm east of Glen Robertson. Gilles and his wife Madeleine Levac live in the same farm and now keep beef cattl...

Duncan A. Macdonell

Year Inducted: 2002

Seccess is measured in terms of the contribution an individual has made to fellow human beings and community. To this day, Duncan Macdonell has dedicated himself to his home community of Glengarry County t...

Jerimiah "Jerry" Sullivan

Year Inducted: 1988

Cornwall 100 years ago, was in Canada’s top pro lacrosse league and to strengthen their team recruited the best available players. Two Glengarrians were among those selected. They were Jeremiah “...

Lawrence Coleman

Year Inducted: 1986

The biographies of two 1986 Sports Hall of Fame inductees, Lawrence Currier and Lawrence Coleman, are unique in Glengarry sport history. They are justifiably classed as builders and stalwart players of the or...

Garry McArthur

Year Inducted: 2006

Born in 1941, Garry McArthur has spent a lifetime both participating in and promoting sport inside and outside of our community. He is indeed an outstanding example of athletic excellence from Glengarry. Garry ...

Burns McPherson

Year Inducted: 2002

As a boy growing up on a farm in Kenyon Township Burns played the regular boy/girl games of minor soccer and hockey - two of Glengarry's favorite pastimes. He was born February 23, 1948 the son of Ranald and E...

John Daniel Baxter

Year Inducted: 1988

John was born and grew up in the Maxville area and attended Maxville High School. He was a member of the school's interscholastic teams in football, his favourite sport, basketball and softball.

Following ...

Benjamin Francis Villeneuve

Year Inducted: 1980

Ben Villeneuve is the son of the late Francis Benjamin Villeneuve and his wife the former Fabiola Marion. Christened Benjamin Francis, he has been affectionately known from boy-hood as Benny. Benny...

Denise Lemieux

Year Inducted: 1997

As the only girl in a family with four brothers and living in a community with more boys than girls, it was only natural that Denise Brazeau Lemieux was involved in many sporting activities when young.

Denise ...

Joan Benton

Year Inducted: 2008

Joan Benton was born in Apple Hill to parents Myles and Edna Benton. She attended the local primary school, then Maxville Public, graduating from Maxville High School. In high school she played volley ball, basket...

Brian O. Gilmour

Year Inducted: 1995

Throughout his life, Brian Gilmour has achieved many extraordinary accomplishments, both academically and athletically. He has made educating and sports major parts of his life, and has played an important ro...

Andrew McGillis

Year Inducted: 1998

It is not often that a high school sports coach is so revered that he continues to be honoured 30 years after his retirement.

But that is exactly the way it is with Andy McGillis. Every year, men who were coa...

Michel (Mike) Depratto

Year Inducted: 2009

Born January 31, 1952 to parents Ubald and Rejeanne Depratto, Mike began his journey through life as a sports enthusiast and competitor. At a young age he battled against a severe rheumatic fever which ...

James Lloyd Kennedy

Year Inducted: 1990

A veteran contributor to the founding and building of the Glengarry Highland Games since they were launched, July 31, 1948, James Lloyd Kennedy will be enshrined in the Glengarry Sports Hall of Fame, Wedne...

Bernard Menard

Year Inducted: 2006

Bernard Menard was born on a farm on McCormick Road, approximately 5 miles (8kms) from Alexandria, on April 11th 1952. Bernie was the second of six children with brothers Rejean, Michel, Gilles, Alain and a sis...

Roddy McLeod

Year Inducted: 2007

Roddy McLeod Sr. was born in Lancaster, Ontario in 1947. His heavyweight career started in 1975 while he was attending The Glengarry Highland Games. He decided that he'd like to try the Heavyweight Events. And so...

Dave Lalonde

Year Inducted: 1988

In his youth, born in 1891, Dave Lalonde indicated that he would follow his father's exemplary career. Graduating from Alexandria Separate School his business aptitude and congenial personality soon made young Da...

1940 Pine Grove Football (Soccer) Club

Year Inducted: 1997

The Pine Grove team of the 1940's was arguably the best ever to play soccer in the Ottawa and surrounding district. Unfortunately, the greatness of the team was never fully realized beca...

Dr. Gustavus MacIntosh

Year Inducted: 1983

Dr. Gustavus McIntosh was born on his parental farm home in the “Gore” of Lochiel Township, July 18, 1874. His parents were Donald McIntosh and his wife, the former Margaret Munro. He was known as �...

Kaye Hay

Year Inducted: 2006

Kaye Hay was born October 14, 1934 to parents Christina Ross and Thomas Hay and he continues to reside on the family farm today. Kaye attended the local elementary school and later Alexandria High School.

As the you...

Donald A. MacDonald

Year Inducted: 1986

Donald Sandfield, as he was familiarly known throughout his life, inherited the characteristics of a sport builder from his grandfather, the Hon. D.A. MacDonald and his father, Col. A.G.F. Macdonald, found...

Robert Carman MacInnes

Year Inducted: 2005

Robert Carman MacInnes (1932 - ) Inducted in 2005 Robert Carman MacInnes was born in Lochiel Township on September 23rd, 1932 to Hazel MacCrimmon and Peter MacInnes. Three years later the family was set...

Glen Nevin Whitford

Year Inducted: 1996

Glen Nevin Whitford of Martintown forced people to reevaluate the traditional relationship between the disabled and athletics. Despite his affliction with Cerebral Palsy, Glen became active in sports at a ...

Jacqueline Fraser

Year Inducted: 2011

Jacqueline (Matte) Fraser grew up in a sports minded family with two close relatives who had been hockey players. Her mother bought her a pair of skis when she was five which she then used on a hill on the o...

Dr. Barbara Janet Cook Mutch Cameron

Year Inducted: 1991

The former Barbara Mutch of Maxville has been selected to be enshrined in the Glengarry Sports Hall of Fame at the induction dinner September 4th, in the Glengarry Sports Palace arena, Ale...

Alexander John MacDonald

Year Inducted: 1979

Alexander J. Big Alex McIsaac- MacDonald was born December 16, 1865, in Lot29, Second Concession of Kenyon, home of his parents Mr. and Mrs. John MacDonald.

Big Alex McIsaac has two factors in common...

Angus Hoey McDonell

Year Inducted: 1992

Angus Hoey McDonell, the father of the Glengarry Sports Hall of Fame, contributed in an unprecedented way to the historic sports and cultural community of Glengarry Country through his life.

“Angus H.�...

Pipe Major John Thomas MacKenzie

Year Inducted: 1984

Pipe Major John Thomas MacKenzie is another rightfully classed as a Glengarrian by adoption. Pipie, as he is popularly known among his legions of friends, was born September 16th, 1920, as the...

Sylvia Wetzl Kirkey

Year Inducted: 1991

Sylvia Wetzl, now Mrs. Sylvia Kirkey, formerly of historic Glen Donald, the birth place of the farmed Col. R. R. McLennan, “Big Rory,” and Williamstown, is another Glengarry rowing celebrant of the 198...

Gerald J. Simpson

Year Inducted: 1995

1955 If TSN (The Sports Network) opted to cover the Glengarry Sports scene with a unique program, Gerald J. Simpson would be the anchor with the telecast out of the Shepherd Motors Sports shop. Few other Gle...

John Alexander Raymond

Year Inducted: 1985

John Alexander Raymond was born on August 1, 1887. His parents were John Raymond and the former Catherine McNaughton. The Raymond family lived in Newington at the time. They took up residence in William...

John Wensink

Year Inducted: 1990

Representing the current generation of Glengarry professional athletes, Maxville's John Wensink, former member of the Boston Bruins, was inducted into the Glengarry Sports Hall of Fame on Wednesday, September 12t...

Jerry Gagnier

Year Inducted: 1987

In the chapters of Glengarry sports history there are listed a few noteworthy athletes who were journey men players excelling in all three games: hockey, lacrosse and football.

Prominent among those of that dis...

Frank Morris

Year Inducted: 2010

Frank Morris was born on March 22, 1963, the youngest of the 10 children of Howard and Gwen Morris, and raised on their 4th of Kenyon farm. Blessed with natural athletic ability, his intense competitive spirit an...

Donald Angus McGillis

Year Inducted: 2011

Donald Angus was born into a family of 13 children in the 5th Concession, Lancaster in 1887. At 15 he left home and moved to Winnipeg where he began working for the CPR. After a few years with the CPR, h...

William James "Jim" Hill

Year Inducted: 1993

When the Glengarry Sports Hall of Fame inducts Jim Hill into its ranks on September 8, it will be receiving one of its own.

Jim, who passed away in February, embodied the enthusiasm and optimism of a...

Lori Dupuis

Year Inducted: 2006

Lori Ann Dupuis was born in Cornwall, Ontario to D'Arcy and Hazel Dupuis (Lalonde) on November 14, 1972. Although Lori excelled in many different sports, she established herself as a household name in the Cornwall...