Athletics Ontario Hall of Fame

Athletics Ontario have created a Hall of Fame, and my grandpa, John W. Loaring, has been selected as one of the fifteen inaugural Inductees.

From the Athletics Ontario website:

Please join us in Celebrating Excellence in Athletics on December 5 in Toronto to honour the 2009 Athletics Ontario Hall of Fame Inductees:

• 1928 Women’s 4x100m Relay Team (Athletes: Florence Isabel “Jane” Bell, Myrtle Alice Cook, Fanny “Bobbie” Rosenfeld, Ethel May Smith)
• Donovan Bailey (Athlete)
• Ethel Catherwood (Athlete)
• Bill Crothers (Athlete)
• Jerome Drayton (Athlete)
• Fred Foot (Builder)
• George Henry Goulding (Athlete)
• Robert Kerr (Athlete/Builder)
• John Loaring (Athlete)
• Brent McFarlane (Builder)
• Donald Mills (Builder)
• George W. Orton (Athlete)
• Paul Poce (Builder)
• M.M. “Bobby” Robinson (Builder)
• Joseph R. Young (Builder)