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=J. Howard Crocker=
 * Nominations
 * nominations for Ontario Sports Hall of Fame (no deadline specified)


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 * During his affiliation with the Canadian YMCA, Crocker introduced basketball to Canada – originally at the YMCA in Amherst, Nova Scotia in 1894. does not agree with claim by Keyes that basketball was played in Montreal in 1892, or that Croker was involved in basketball at St. Stephen
 * https://thediscoverblog.com/2016/12/21/125-years-ago-today-the-invention-of-basketball-and-the-canadian-participants-in-the-first-ever-basketball-game/
 * https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/basketball
 * https://teamgear.ca/blogs/our-blog/the-canadian-history-behind-basketball-and-how-to-play-it


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=P. J. Mulqueen=

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Infobox and introduction
Patrick Joseph Mulqueen (April 8, 1867 –December 21, 1946) was a Canadian sports executive and businessman.


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Early life

 * Patrick Joseph Mulqueen was born in Toronto, on April 8, 1867, and raised in Cabbagetown. Mulqueen was regularly known as "P. J." to friends and colleagues.


 * Known as P. J. Mulqueen and as Pat Mulqueen.


 * Patrick Joseph Mulqueen. His parents: Patrick Mulqueen and Ellen O'Brien.

Athletics career

 * Early years including World War I
 * Mulqueen began his athletics career as an oarsman with the Don Rowing Club, later serving on the club executive. He was also associated with the Toronto Rowing Club. Mulqueen was involved with rowing from the days of Ned Hanlan, and knew many stories of Hanlans' accomplishments. He was the official referee for several years at the Henley Royal Regatta in England. After Lou Scholes won the Diamond Challenge Sculls at the Henley Royal Regatta in 1904, Mulqueen took Scholes to England for the 1908 Summer Olympics.


 * Mulqueen won the 1895 US National pairs title, with Joseph Wright, the first Canadians to claim the title.


 * Mulqueen was a championship sculler, and played lacrosse.


 * Was a president of the Canadian Amateur Association of Oarsmen. Mulqueen was president of the Sportsmen's Patriotic Association during World War I.


 * 1920 to 1922
 * Mulqueen attended all Summer Olympic Games from 1920 to 1936. Mulqueen was the first chaiman of the Ontario Athletic Commission, appointed in 1920.


 * As president of the Canadian Olympic Committee, he attended all of the Olympic Games worldwide, paying his own way, and claimed that he never accepting money from any sporting organization. The Toronto Star reported that Mulqueen was known to buy shoes and sporting equipment for Canadian Olympic athletes.


 * Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) president Patrick J. Mulqueen 1922–1946.


 * 1923 stadium proposal


 * The idea of a downtown Toronto sports stadium first surfaced in the years after the first world war. The Sportsmen's Patriotic League lobbied for a 16,000-seat municipal stadium on reclaimed waterfront land between Strachan and Bathurst, roughly where Coronation Park is located. The $220,000 War Memorial Stadium would, according to League spokesman Patrick J. Mulqueen, help "rehabilitate the greatest of all Canadian assets, its manhood". Plans drawn up by architecture firm Chapman, Oxley & Bishop envisioned a grand neoclassical colosseum with seating around an oval field. The shape lent itself to range of athletic uses, including baseball, football, soccer. Bathurst streetcars would service the main entrance and there was to be ample parking. The idea had the support of the city, but the expense was rejected in a January 1923 referendum.


 * 1924


 * The Olympic Winter Games were first held in 1924 in Chamonix, France.


 * He personally donated $2,500 to the Canadian Olympic team who were short of funds to attend the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris.


 * After Mulqueen returned from the 1924 Summer Olympics, he stated that better results and more satisfaction would come from concentrating on British Empire Games, where the games would be staged in various countries in the empire and be open to British subjects. Mulqueen stated that tactics used by European boxers were disgraceful including rowdyism and riots.


 * 1926
 * In 1926, the Women's Amateur Athletic Federation of Canada (WAAF of C) was formed. It pressured the AAU to enter female athletes at the Olympic Games.


 * 1928
 * Patrick Joseph Mulqueen of Toronto, was chairman of the Canadian Oympic Committee. He stated that the 1928 tour of England, France, Germany and Austria, by the Canada men's national ice hockey team was mentioned more in European newspapers than in Canada. Mulqueen had attended each Olympic hockey tournament to date. Mulqueen noted that many ice rinks in Canada with artificial ice surfaces gave Canada an advantage in producing hockey players. He also felt that Canadian teams touring Europe were good advertizing for Canada.


 * The 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam are considered a historic Olympic Games for Canada, especially in terms of women’s events. The women’s track and field team, which included sprinter Bobbie Rosenfeld and high jumper Ethel Catherwood, was dominant. Canadian women won four medals in athletics. Percy Williams was the fastest man, winning gold in the men’s 100 m and 200 m.


 * 1930s and 1940s


 * Attended every meeting of the Amateur Athletic Union of Canada (AAU of C) in the past 15 years. Mulqueen was a close friend of Lou Marsh, and was named chairman of judges to select recipients of the Lou Marsh Memorial Trophy. Mulqueen was named chairman of the first Ontario Athletic Commission for Ontario premier Drury, and again named its chairman when Hepburn became premier, retired from commission in 1945.


 * In 1932, most Canadian athletes had to pay their own way to the Olympic Games because the COA did not have much revenue due to the Great Depression. The Olympic Games were held in the United States; Los Angeles hosted the Summer Games, and Lake Placid hosted the Winter Games.


 * In 1936, the Olympic Winter Games and Olympic Summer Games took place in Germany. That the COA even sent a team at all was considered controversial because of Germany’s discriminatory treatment of Jewish people.


 * The 1940 and 1944 Olympic Games were cancelled due to the Second World War. Succeeded as COC president by Andrew Sidney Dawes 1947.


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 * Mulqueen was credited for ecouraging professional baseball, and girls' baseball.

Business career



 * In business life, he operated a grocery store on Wilton Avenue, later known as Dundas Street East. He later owned and operated the Tremont House hotel at Yonge Street and Queen Street in Toronto. He sold the hotel during World War II and retired. Mulqueen firsrt appointed to the Toronto Harbour Commission on February 15, 1930, then reappointed by the Canadian government on April 4, 1938.


 * In early business years, Mulqueen operated a grocery store on the northwest corner of Berkeley St. and Wilton Ave. (now Dundas St.), and sold candy "grab bags". Later went into the hotel business and retired 30 years ago (circa 1916?). Served on the Toronto Harbour Commission for 13 years.


 * James Wilson Gray favoured Renaissance Revival architecture, and his design for the five storey Tremont House Hotel on Yonge Street (1912) featured a meticulously detailed white terracotta façade.


 * Mulqueen operated the Tremont House, which included a bar (drinking establishment) that was reportedly the longest in Toronto, when remodelled in 1912.


 * April 8, 1915. Mulqueen sold his license for the Tremont Hotel Company in April 1915, reportedly for CA$160000,.

Personal life



 * Mulqueen married Margaret Melady on April 10, 1899, in Toronto.


 * Mulqueen was a devout Roman Catholic, first attended St. Paul's Church at Queen St. and Power St., then Our Lady of Lourdes Church,and Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Toronto. Mulqueen was a member of the Society of the Holy Name, and a generous supporter of the church. Mulqueen died on December 21, 1946, at his home in Rosedale, Toronto.


 * Mulqueen was married, had a son and daughter living at his death. Funeral held for Mulqueen on December 24, 1946, at this house in Rosedale, with burial at Mount Hope Catholic Cemetery in Toronto.


 * Mulqueen died on December 21, 1946, in Toronto after a long illness.


 * Mulqueen lived in Rosedale. He died on December 21, 1946, from a cerebral venous sinus thrombosis. Mulqueen was interred at section 3, lot 54, Mount Hope Catholic Cemetery, three days after his death.

Honours and legacy

 * Mulqueen was made a life member of the Ontario Hockey Association in 1923.


 * Mulqueen was made a life member of the Ontario Hockey Association in 1928, in recognition of his work with the Canadian Olympic Committee. The Toronto Star described Mulqueen as, "known throughout Canada, the United States and Europe as one of the leading sportsmen of his time".


 * Mulqueen was a life member of the Ontario Hockey Association.


 * Mulqueen was posthumously inducted into the builder category of the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame in 1960.

Uncited web
http://isoh.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/230.pdf
 * 1932

https://www.olympedia.org/results/982

https://vhec.org/1936_olympics/olympic_promoters.htm
 * 1936

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/canada-at-the-1936-olympic-winter-games

https://issuu.com/canadashistory/docs/84-4-004-as14-19

https://webarchive.iihf.com/iihf-home/the-iihf/100-year-anniversary/100-top-stories/story-15/index.html

Uncited books / archives







 * J. Howard Crocker fonds at University of Western Ontario

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