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27 Sep

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] 1971 Gymnastic Gold [/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner][vc_separator type="normal" transparency="0" thickness="1" up="15"][vc_single_image image="16033" img_size="full" alignment="center" qode_css_animation=""][vc_separator type="normal" transparency="0" thickness="1" up="15"][vc_column_text] Loris Ferraro's gymnastics career peaked when he won gold at the 1985 Canadian - National Gymnastics Championships in Victoria, B.C....

21 Sep

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] 1952 Provincial Women's Softball Union 'B' Champs [/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner width="2/3"][vc_column_text] First they were the Parksides, and then they were the Merchants, but it was when they changed their names to the Monarchs that Midland's women's softball team...

21 Sep

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] 1958 Ontario Baseball Association Intermediate 'A' Champions [/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner width="2/3"][vc_column_text] In the autumn of 1958, a 12-year reign began for the Midland Indians baseball club. That season they defeated the Simcoe Meteors 1-0 to win the Ontario...

21 Sep

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Ontario Hockey Association Junior 'C' Champions [/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner width="2/3"][vc_column_text] It was 4 a.m. on a brisk April morning in 1954 when Midlanders were roused from their sleep by a blaring fire engine siren. There was no cause...

21 Sep

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] 1987 World Champions [/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Their beginning grew from small towns as Elmvale, Midland and Penetanguishene, their success felt by the people of those comminities; but the zenth for the 1987 Russ Howard Curling Rink arrived...

21 Sep

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner width="2/3"][vc_column_text] The headlines were read all across Canada that day in 1953, April 7 to be exact, when the Midland Bantam Bruins won the inaugural Dominion Little NHL Championship for players under 14. Playing...

21 Sep

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] 1983 Canadian Champions [/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner width="2/3"][vc_column_text] The Midland Braves of 1983 won the Canadian Lacrosse Association Peewee "C" Championship that August in a tournament held in Barrie. They aculminated an undefeated tournament appearance by whipping Whitby 11-4...

21 Sep

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] 1974 - 1984 Lynn Morton - Vivian Shaw - Margaret Bourgeois - Diane Vollick [/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner width="2/3"][vc_column_text] They claimed to be curling just for fun, but for several years the Lynn Morton curling rink was among the...

21 Sep

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] OHA Intermediate Champions [/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner width="2/3"][vc_column_text] The Midland Intermediate hockey team of 1940- 41 were known as the British Consols, the Greenshirts or as the Midland Intermediates during the Ontario Hockey Association season. When the season was...

21 Sep

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Every person who passes through the lobby of the Midland arena has noticed the quaint souvenirs from Sweden in the display case. Everyone who has sat in the stands recalls a banner commemorating...