The PEI Sports Hall of Fame & Museum

The PEI Sports Hall of Fame & Museum

Hornibrook, Donna Phillips – Field Hockey

Hornibrook, Donna Phillips – Field Hockey

Donna Phillips Hornibrook of Charlottetown has an enjoyed an excellent field hockey career, not only as an outstanding player, but as a very successful coach. Hornibrook dominated Island field hockey both at the high school and provincial level, but it was when she...
Zimmermann, Lothar – Fencing

Zimmermann, Lothar – Fencing

Good Evening honourable and special guests, members of the board of directors, members of this Hall who may be present here this evening, 2018 inductees and ladies and gentlemen. I feel particularly honoured to have been asked to present to all of you here present,...
Brown, Evelyn (Henry) – Distance Swimming

Brown, Evelyn (Henry) – Distance Swimming

Evelyn Henry Brown, a true pioneer of distance swimming on P.E.I., was born on April 5, 1928 in Charlottetown. Raised on the shores of Keppoch, she became fond of swimming from a very early age, and conducted swimming classes every summer at her home. Evelyn was a...
McNeill, Barbara – Distance Swimming

McNeill, Barbara – Distance Swimming

Once in a generation it happens – the sports page news becomes front page news as an athlete’s personal triumph reflects the pride and determination of an entire people.  On August 24, 1989, a million souls stirred as Barbara McNeill became the first and, to date,...
Unsworth, Lorne – Cycling

Unsworth, Lorne – Cycling

One of the fastest cyclists in Canada before the turn of the century, Lorne Robert “Silver” Unsworth is hailed as the first Prince Edward Island sports hero.  Born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, May 10, 1878, he resided in Charlottetown from the early 1880s until his untimely...