Helen Doberstein

Helen Doberstein was born in Etobicoke, in the early thirties. She grew up here with her 5 brothers and 4 sisters, attending Fifth Street Public school and Mimico High.

She began her softball career in 1951, playing for the Goodyear team at Rotary Park in the Lakeshore industrial league. The following year she began pitching in the Women’s League at Sunnyside.

Helen lived in Etobicoke up until her early 20s. In 1956, pitched in the East Toronto Senior League before moving to the Monarch Park League, where she stayed until 1963.

An injury forced her retirement, but she returned in even better form to compete across the country. Not only did she take her team to win the Ontario Ladies Championship in 1967, ‘68 and ‘69, but she went on to win the Women’s Canadian Championship in Vancouver in 1967 and in Winnipeg in 1968.

The 1967 championship in Vancouver brought her the honour of being named Outstanding Pitcher.

In 1969, in Halifax, this outstanding athlete from Etobicoke was winner of the first Canada Summer Games Championships.

Two of Helen’s sisters still live in Etobicoke.

Glenn Goldup

Glenn Goldup was born in 1953 in St. Catharines, to a large and growing family. He was the fifth of eight children, that later moved to Etobicoke in the fall of 1956.

As a boy, he heard many hockey stories from his father, Hank Goldup, who played for the Toronto Maple Leafs and NY Rangers during World War II. This undoubtedly sparked Glenn’s desire to play in the NHL.

Glenn started playing hockey as an enthusiastic 7 year old in the Humber Valley minor hockey program. He soon joined the Toronto Marlies as a Pee Wee and later the Toronto Marlboros of the OHA in the late sixties where he refined his game. The more he played, the more he grew to love the sport.

He was drafted 17-th overall and made his NHL debut on November 7, 1973 with the Montreal Canadiens. One of his proudest moments was winning the Calder Cup in 1976, while he played for the Nova Scotia Voyagers, where he led the league in goals and penalty minutes during the playoffs.

In 1976, Glenn was traded to the LA Kings where, for five seasons, he put up respectable offensive numbers. In 1981, Glenn was dispatched to the Kings AHL affiliate in New Haven where he rounded out his on-ice career. He retired from official play in 1983.

Today, Glenn is actively involved in coaching and supporting the many sports his children participate in, including soccer, ringette, swimming and skiing.

Glenn and his wife Wendy are long time residents of Etobicoke.

Jack Stafford

Jack’s hockey playing days began when he was a student at Upper Canada College in the mid-thirties. In 1939, Jack played for the Marlboro Juniors, who became OHA finalists, and in 1940 he graduated to the Senior Marlboros.

Jack joined the Canadian Navy and played for the Navy team in 1941, effectively bringing his budding career to a close. He later played briefly for the Stafford company team in the senior OHA, after the war in 1945-1946. In 1953, Jack joined the NHL Oldtimers and played on this team for several years.

After Jack’s playing years, he co-founded the Humber Valley Hockey Association (HVHA), and he was the driving force behind its success. The Humber Valley Hockey Association began with two teams, the Redman and the Hornets, and has grown well beyond Jack’s fondest dreams.

The HVHA now holds some 1500 registered players, and serves our community with quality hockey competition unrivalled in the Metro area. This is a tribute to the volunteers who have followed in Jack Stafford’s footsteps. All because a devoted father wanted his children to have the same pleasures, the game of hockey gave to him years before.

Murray Dowey

Inductee Murray Dowey led the Royal Canadian Air Force flyers hockey team to the gold medal at the 1948 Winter Olympics, setting a standard for goaltending excellence yet to be matched.

Dowey racked up a phenomenal goals-against average of only 0.62 in the eight games the RCAF Flyers played on their way to the Gold in St Moritz, Switzerland. It’s a record for Olympic hockey goaltending which still stands.

Yet, Dowey wasn’t originally slated to be a member of the Olympic team. He was working at his Toronto Transit Commission job on a January morning in 1948 when he received a call from the manager of the RCAF Flyers, inviting him to be their starting goalie in the upcoming Olympics.

Dowey had to scramble to make his way to Europe, leaving the day he received the call to board the Queen Elizabeth for a trip across the ocean with other members of the team. Holding the rank of Aircraftsman 2, Dowey took leave from his TTC jobs to play in the Olympics.

Born in east end Toronto, Dowey played with the Birchcliff Midget teams in the Toronto Hockey League. He was recruited by the Toronto Maple Leafs, who wanted him to play for their junior team, the Toronto Marlboroughs, but he couldn’t come to terms with then Marlie owner Harold Ballard.

Dowey said playing in the Olympics on outdoor rinks was a huge adjustment after normally skating indoors at rinks such as Varsity Arena and Maple Leaf Gardens. “At one of the games both teams had to shovel snow off the ice and the fans were throwing snowballs” he recalled of the Olympic experience.

Dowey has lived in the Scarlett Road and Eglinton area of Etobicoke since 1976.

Ian “Scotty” Morrison

Ian “Scotty” Morrison has been involved with the game of hockey in numerous capacities. He was a player, a referee, a National Hockey League executive, and a Chair of the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto.

Born in Montreal, Morrison played hockey with the likes of Jean Beliveau and Boom Boom Geffrion as a member of the Montreal Canadiens organization.

After finishing in junior hockey, he began his career as a referee with the Quebec Amateur Hockey Association and then the Quebec Senior League. At the age of 24 he became the youngest man to work as a National Hockey League referee.

After two seasons, he left the league to pursue business interests but returned to the NHL in 1965 as Referee-in-Chief. In 1981 he was made an officer of the league and appointed Vice President, Officiating.

In 1986 he was given the position of Vice President for Project Development, Site for the Hall which opened in downtown Toronto in 1993. At that time he was named Chair and Chief Executive Officer of the Hall. He retired from that position in 1998.

Morrison lived in Etobicoke from 1965 until his recent move to Haliburton after retiring. Along with his work with the Hockey Hall of Fame, Morrison helped establish the Etobicoke Sports Hall of Fame. In 1999, Morrison was inducted into the hockey Hall of Fame in the Builder category.

Jane Wright

Joining the Etobicoke Memorial Aquatic Club in 1963 at the age of eight, Jane Wright’s swimming career blossomed. She became a member of the Canadian National Swim Team by the age of 13.

Jane was with the National Team from 1968 to 1973, and represented Canada in the pool at the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, the 1971 Pan-American Games in Munich, and the 1973 World Championships in Yugoslavia. Her gold medal at the Pan-American games came as a member of the medley team in which she swam the breaststroke portion. The win was especially sweet since the Canadians beat an extremely powerful American team in the race.

During her swimming career Jane established more than 100 Ontario and Canadian records. In 1991 she was inducted into the University of Toronto Sports Hall of Fame.

A dedicated athlete, Jane was also an extremely hard-working student who notched top marks while attending Richview Collegiate. She was also very modest about her swimming achievements; few friends were even aware that she competed in the Olympics.

Jane competed in swimming for the love of her sport and remembers the pride she felt as a member of the Canadian team when our anthem was played at the Pan-American Games. She also treasures the thrill of walking into a stadium during the opening ceremonies as a member of the Canadian team.

Jane still lives in Etobicoke, on the same street she grew up on, with her husband and three children.

Carol-Ann Duthie-MacDonald

In 1952, at 15 years of age, Carol-Ann won the United States National Slalom Water Skiing championship, the first time a Canadian had ever done so.

Also in 1952, she won the junior championship in Mexico and later that summer, at the Canadian National Exhibition, won the Junior Girls’ World Water Skiing Championship. The following year, at age 16, she swept the all-round Junior Championship with a perfect score, breaking the Mexican record in Jumping.

Carol-Ann held the Ontario Water Ski Championship title from 1951 to 1955 and the Eastern Canada Water Ski Championship from 1953 to 1955.

In 1954, at the Eastern Canadian Water Skiing Competition, she entered the senior category and placed first in the Tricks and Slalom events.

Carol-Ann was named Etobicoke’s Outstanding citizen in 1956.

A lifelong resident of Etobicoke, Carol-Ann learned to water ski at Florida’s Cypress Gardens and began water skiing as part of the Canadian National Exhibition waterfront show at age 13.

Jocelyn Lovell

Jocelyn Lovell is a premier cyclist who still hods the Pan American record for the 1000 metre time trial. At the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, he won the Gold, Silver and Bronze. These were the first such medals for a Canadian cyclist in 32 years.

Jocelyn competed in the 1968, 1972 and 1976 Olympic games. No other Commonwealth cyclist has won more Commonwealth medals.

While residing in Etobicoke from 1972 to 1983 Jocelyn was honored by mayor Dennis Flynn for his outstanding performance at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton. At the time he was also ranked second in the world at the 1978 World Cycling Championships in Munich.

In 1975 he was named Canada’s Athlete of the Year and wa inducted into Canada’s Sorts Hall of Fame in 1985. Paralysed in a training accident, Jocelyn is the Canadian Co-ordinator of the cure research organization of the Canadian Spinal Cord Society.

Hank Goldup

Hank Goldup is probably best recognized in sports circles for his involvement with the Toronto Maple Leafs, but that is not the extent of his contributions. He played six years with the NHL, three with the Leafs and two with the New York Rangers.

Goldup helped the Leafs win the 1942 Stanley Cup in one of the great comebacks in the history of the league.

His 202 game career included 63 goals and 80 assists, but his involvement in sports did not end with his retirement from the NHL.

What followed was 15 years of instructing Toronto youngsters on the finer points of the game in a coaching capacity in the THL or at hockey schools.

Competitive amateur golf followed as Goldup made his mark in the Etobicoke community playing out of Markland Woods.

Ken Dixon

In a 1976 piece, sports columnist Red Duddin wrote “The Dixon namewas famous in lacrosse circles in Mimico back in the 1940s and early 1950s. In fact, Ken and Archie Dixon were as well known in those days as lacrosse stars as Vida Blue and Rollie Fingers are today as baseball stars.”

The name Ken Dixon is synonymous with lacrosse in Mimico, at one time a true hotbed of the sport in Canada. Dixon began his career in Canada’s national game in the old Windy Weather league in Mimico during the great depression in the 1930s and throughout the 1940s established himself as one of the game’s biggest stars, scoring over 500 goals during an outstanding 15 year career.

As a junior age rookie with the Mimico senior team, Ken was selected the Ontario Lacrosse Association’s Most Valuable Player, leading Mimico to the Mann Cup in 1942. In the fall of that year Ken was invited to a tryout with the Toronto Maple Leafs. While he made favourable impressions at camp, his budding NHL career was cut short after just one week when he was called to the Armed Services.

The lifelong Etobicoke resident served in the army for the next four years. Upon discharge he joined the Mimico Seniors, guiding the team to an Ontario title and a national championship. Upon his retirement from the game in 1949, in a touching gesture, Ken was presented with a gold watch from the Mimico fans.

In 1976 Ken was elected to the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame. Since his retirement from active sports Ken has coached in the Queensway Minor Hockey League for years and has been an avid participant in the Etobicoke Oldtimers Hockey League.