Public lecture - Bill Petrunik About Figure Skating, Unknown Speaker
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- Material Type
- Recording
- Date Range
- 1990
- Accession No.
- 19971071007
- Scope and Content
- 1 cassette tape. Approximately 45 minutes per side.recording of the sir alexander Galt museum sunday series speakers.side a: bill petrunik speaks about figure skating. November 1990.side b: unknown speaker talks about the history of sports in Lethbridge. Side A Gait Museum speaker, Bill Petrunik…
- Material Type
- Recording
- Date Range
- 1990
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- History Biographical
- See attached for summary of talks.
- Acquisition Source
- Sir Alexander Galt Museum
- Scope and Content
- 1 cassette tape. Approximately 45 minutes per side.recording of the sir alexander Galt museum sunday series speakers.side a: bill petrunik speaks about figure skating. November 1990.side b: unknown speaker talks about the history of sports in Lethbridge. Side A Gait Museum speaker, Bill Petrunik, on the history of Figure Skating in Lethbridge. 18 November 1990. 45 minutes in length. - Talks about growing up in the Crowsnest Pass and the different ethnic groups in the area. - Talks about Jim Cousins teaching school in the Pass and writing his masters thesis about the ethnic groups in the Pass. Cousins later had a LCC wing named for him. - Discusses figure skating in Lethbridge before 1949. Ed Patey and ? Murchie contacted Helen Hantwell (later Mrs. Glen Little) in 1939 and invited her to run a figure skating school in Lethbridge. Helen was an amateur skater in Calgary. Others involved in the club were Don & Ethel Higins. In 1947 Ralph and Beth Folgle came to Lethbridge from Calgary to take over the club and one of the first things they did was to affiliate the Lethbridge club with the Canadian Figure Skating Association. When Ron and Sonja Jacobson moved to Lethbridge in 1959, Sonja's mother, Peggy Currie also came to Lethbridge to assumed the position of instructor. Sonja was still skating professionally and went on to win the Canadian Junior Championship. - He names some of the club presidents. - Another local person instrumental in the advancement of figure skating in Lethbridge was Phyllis McNally. She had her amateur status and judged competitions from the 1960s until her death this year. - Following Peggy Currie, the instructors were Sonja Davis and Yon ?? from Sweden. Lethbridge skaters performed well under them and a number of locals won competitions. - Talks about the importance of volunteers in the association. SideB Unknown Gait Museum speaker talking about the history of sports in Lethbridge. circa Nov 1990. 45 minutes in length. - Mentions various factors effecting the development of sports in Lethbridge (ethnic groups, weather). - Discusses sports in Lethbridge before 1900. In April 1886 the first formal organization, the Shooting Club, was formed and their first competition was a match between the married and single men of Lethbridge. In 1887-88 the shooting competitions were coordinated with matches in other communities and the results telegraphed between the centres. - Another popular sporting event was match horse racing. - Most activities were held in the square, later named Gait Garden. - Lethbridge was divided into 3 competing units - RNWMP, the coal miners, the town people. - Soccer and lacrosse were the most popular sports. The Lethbridge lacrosse team were NWT champions. - Talks about a soccer match in Belt, Montana when the Lethbridge team lost, and there was talk that the goalie had frown the game. - Talks about Lethbridge tennis player FW Godwin who won the Hudsons Bay Cup at the NWT Manitoba Championship held in Winnipeg in 1891 and 1892. - Talks about the Turf Association and Bicycle Club. - Talks about the curling club. It is believed that curling started in Lethbridge about 1887 and that rink was located north of the old A R & I roundhouse. - Talks about baseball and George Houk. - Talks about school sports. - Talks about more recent sports teams and events - Lethbridge Maple Leafs, basketball, curling, baseball and slowpitch.
- Access Restrictions
- Public Access
- Accession No.
- 19971071007
- Collection
- Archive
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