Career Highlights: 1972 – Mike’s successful career in Track and Field began in 1972 during his first year at Barrie North Collegiate.  He credits his first coach and mentor Jim Whitfield for getting him interested, first in Cross Country Running, followed by the Hurdles. During Grade 9, Mike made it to GBSSA level in Cross […]

Ellsworth was a true sportsman and one of the best all-around athletes that Minesing produced. He was a hockey and baseball star player and coach.  He was known as a great horseshoe player and excelled at the game of curling.  Ellsworth was inducted into the Ontario Horseshoe Hall of Fame in 2001 and was the […]

This team of four won the Ontario Masters Curling Championship on February 1, 1996 in Huntsville. They were the first and only team, representing the Elmvale Curling Club, to win a provincial championship. (L-R) Ev McFadden (lead), Lorna Quesnelle (second), Marlene Tinney (vice), and Dorrie  Fiegehen (skip)

Walter was one of Midhurst’s greatest sports supporters and displayed notable sportsmanship whether playing softball, curling, horseshoes, checkers, nine pins, crokinole, crib, horseshoes, curling or softball.  He enjoyed a commendable curling career, and in 1930 won the Ontario Championship in Crokinole with Hunter Russell as his partner.  Walter was inducted into the Vespra Recreation Hall […]

In 1977 on a cold and wet Thanksgiving weekend, this team Elmvale became the first and only men’s team to win an Ontario Amateur Softball Championship. They traveled to Hearst, Ontario to play the Northern Ontario Champs and won the best-of-three championship 2 games to 1. Front: Doug McMann, Carl Edwards, Garry Turner, Lou Belcourt, […]

Tim, throwing second stone for Team Russ Howard, won the 1987 World Curling Championship. Tim with Team Howard won three Ontario Championships (1986,1987,1988), were Canadian runners up (1986) and Canadian Champions (1987) and were voted Team of the Year for 1987. The team was one of the best in Canada in the 1980’s. Tim is […]

This Elmvale team won the OMHA Juvenile “D” Championship going undefeated all season. On April 7, 1965, they won the “C” Division Milton Juvenile Tournament and the OMHA Championship in Plattsville. Front (L-R): George Conn, Steve Crane, Bob Stacey (Coach), Carl Edwards, Norm Crane (Manager), Jim Conn, John Brown, Mike Conn Floor: Rob Crane (Stick […]

Corby won a Juvenile “A” Championship, four OHA titles, four Allan Cups, OHA MVP twice, played international hockey and won an OASA title in fastball. On a hockey scholarship at Clarkson College, NY he was league all-star three times, all-time leading scorer, on the All-American team and inducted into the Clarkson University Athletic Hall of […]

In 1924 Minesing won the Ontario United Farmers Championship. On March 3, 1924 a semi-final win against Warsaw (Lakefield), the best of the east.  The deciding match was in the ‘Mammoth Rink’ in Barrie on March 19, 1924 against Oshweken. Fans went wild for it was a win for Simcoe County. Front: Carlin ‘Cal’ Foyston […]