by adminrevolutionca | Jan 19, 2022 | Inductees
Kathy O’Rourke skipped one of PEI’s greatest curling teams to the Gold Medal game of the 2010 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Sault St Marie Ontario. Ultimately, they would have settle with a silver medal after losing a close game to Manitoba’s Jennifer Jones. The Al...
by adminrevolutionca | Jan 19, 2022 | Inductees
Robert Clayton “Bob” Schurman was born in Malden, Massachusetts on December 5th, 1925, the eldest of the late Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Colin Schurman’s four sons. At the age of six, he returned with his parents, Island natives, to Summerside. Bob was an active...
by adminrevolutionca | Jan 19, 2022 | Inductees
A master craftsman of sporting prose long after his days as the Island featherweight and lightweight champion were over, William “Billy the Kid” Pryor represents all that is noble about his chosen profession of boxing: Courage, sportsmanship, and above all grace under...
by adminrevolutionca | Jan 19, 2022 | Inductees
William “Wild Bert” Kenny was born in 1888. He was the son of John and Margaret Kenny and was the most famous of their four professional boxer sons. As a teenager, Kenny would leave the Peakes Station district to find soluble employment, first as a lumberjack in the...
by adminrevolutionca | Jan 19, 2022 | Inductees
Born in Miscouche, P.E.I., on July 10, 1935, Walter “Peanuts” Arsenault began his boxing career on September 22, 1945, boxing continuously for 27 years, and, remarkably for his sport, without the benefit of a manager. His professional career spans 114 ring battles,...
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