tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37906968919957380572024-03-05T01:12:59.786-08:00Melanie Daigle's BlogMelaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07602489328806704546noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790696891995738057.post-40311242026766102412012-08-12T07:13:00.001-07:002012-08-12T20:20:41.130-07:00My Dad at the 1948 London Olympics - Day 17 - FinalIt was quite a journey for Dad along with his Canadian Olympian team mates, leaving Canada for almost six weeks to take part in the 1948 London Olympics. As mentioned previously, they departed from Halifax, Canada on Wednesday, July 14th, 1948 and arrived in Southampton, England on Thursday, July 22nd, 1948.<br />
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The Opening Ceremonies for the 1948 London Olympics were held on Thursday, July 29th, and the Closing Ceremonies were held on Saturday, August 14th. This year's 2012 London Olympics are held over the same number of days, but they started on Friday, July 27th, 2012 and conclude today, Sunday, August 12th, 2012.<br />
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I find it remarkable that the entire Canadian Olympic Team were together for almost six weeks back in 1948 --- traveling together and staying together in London for the Olympics. What an amazing journey!<br />
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The Canadian Olympic team embarked on the R.M.S. Aquitania on Tuesday, August 17th, 1948; homeward bound. According to the Abstract of Log of the Cunard White Star R.M.S. Aquitania, they departed from Left Berth, Southampton at 7:16pm.<br />
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As you can see by the Ship's Abstract, the Canadian Team's journey home lasted 5 days, 21 hours and 11 minutes .... slightly less time than their trip to England. I love the detail that is provided on the Abstract card!<br />
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This is Dad's ticket for his journey home.<br />
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This photo is captioned; "Peter Mingie (Montreal), Bridie Cook (Winnipeg), Bill Hamilton (Oshawa) taken aboard "Aquitania" Aug/48" This photo was Bridie Cook's . She mailed Dad some photos after her arrival home.<br />
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This is Dad's Immigration Identification Card that was stamped upon his arrival in Halifax on August 23rd, 1948.<br />
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There are four other photos that were sent to Dad from Bridie Cook from Winnipeg, Manitoba:<br />
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She captioned this one, "Winnipeg C.P.R Station Aug./48"</div>
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"Bridie Cook (Winnipeg), Pat Jones (New Westminster), Vivian King (Winnipeg) taken in</div>
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"Dianne Foster and Bridie Cook taken in Winnipeg Aug/48"</div>
NOTE: Dianne was one of Canada's Bronze medalists in the 1948 Olympics for Athletics in the women's<br />
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I love this photo .... fashion and passion ..... it is captioned on the back of the photo as follows:<br />
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<i>Taken by the Winnipeg Flying Club, Winnipeg, Man</i></div>
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In summary, the 1948 London Olympic Games occurred from July 29th to August 14th, 1948.<br />
59 Nations competed; there were 4,104 athletes in total (3,714 men and 390 women) with Canada having a total of 118 athletes (100 men, of which my Dad was one of them; and 18 women). As mentioned yesterday (Day 16), Canada received a total of 3 medals in 1948; 1 silver and 2 bronze. At the most recent count, Canada's medal count in the London 2012 Olympics has us at: 1 gold, 5 silver and 12 bronze.<br />
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This is a video montage I found online of many of the memories captured during the 1948 London Olympics.<br />
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Later that year, Canada won another 3 medals in the 1948 Winter Olympics in Switzerland. Barbara Ann Scott was the first Canadian to win a gold medal in Olympic figure skating (Women's Freestyle). Canada's Hockey Team, the RCAF Flyers also won gold. And our third and final medal in 1948 was won in pairs Figure Skating thanks to Suzanne Morrow and Wallace Diestelmeyer.<br />
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Dad went on with his Amateur Boxing Career in Canada and became the Golden Gloves Champion. He has a scrapbook filled with newspaper clippings covering a lot of his boxing career.<br />
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He unfortunately missed out on the following Olympics as he was literally in the trenches in Korea; representing Canada in the Korean War. (We do have more photos!!)<br />
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Thank you for joining me on this journey - my first blog with a goal to share some amazing history from my Dad's photographs and memorabilia when he was an athlete for Canada in the 1948 London Olympic over the duration of the 2012 London Olympics.<br />
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I did not know what to expect. I thought perhaps some family members would enjoy this, as we are all so very proud of him. I have been amazed with the following .... particularly since blogger.com provides statistics of where people are located who are reading this. Here's the map of the world and the green shading shows the countries where this Blog has been read up until, but not including this one today.<br />
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Thanks for the encouragement and the very positive feedback. Thank you for being here with me and sharing in Dad's Olympic story. <br />
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Here's a recent photo of Dad in May of 2012.<br />
<br /></div>Melaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07602489328806704546noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790696891995738057.post-28437508664063984752012-08-11T09:11:00.001-07:002012-08-14T11:46:25.488-07:00My Dad at the 1948 London Olympics - Blog Day 16It is hard to believe that it is the final weekend of the 2012 London Olympics and while the dates slightly differ, this second weekend of August was in fact the final weekend of London's 1948 Olympics. Times have definitely changed since my Dad, along with the Canadian Olympic Team departed together from Halifax, Canada on Wednesday, July 14th, 1948 by ship on the R.M.S. Aquitania for a seven-day voyage across the Atlantic to the port in Southampton, England. They were in London for a total of 27 days.<br />
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The closing ceremonies were held on Saturday (not Sunday) August 14th, 1948 in Wembley Stadium as seen in the following photo.<br />
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This is the Official Programme of the 1948 London Olympics</div>
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Canada received a total of three medals in 1948:<br />
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<li>a Silver in the Canoe/Kayak - Douglas Bennett C-1. 1,000 metres, male</li>
<li>a Bronze medal in the Canoe/Kayak - Norman Lane C-1, 10,000 metres, male</li>
<li>a Bronze medal in Athletics for the 4 x 100 metre relay - female - Patricia Dalziel, Dianne Foster, Nancy Mackay and Viola Myers</li>
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Congratulations Canada!!!</div>
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This is what the medals looked like in 1948 ....<br />
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This next item is one of my favourite 1948 London Olympic memorabilia in Dad's collection. It is an autographed menu from the Canadian Olympic Team's Final Dinner onboard the R.M.S. Aquitania; the night before their arrival into England. I love seeing all of the autographs of these young Olympians before they set foot on British soil .... about to embark on seeing their dreams come true being an Olympian and representing Canada. It makes more sense now to see the names of these Canadian athletes now that we've had a chance to get to know them a little more over the past couple of weeks in the photographs.<br />
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This menu is dated, Wednesday, July 21st, 1948</div>
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This photograph of Joey Sandulo is autographed to my Dad on the front which says,</div>
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On the eve of the final day for the 2012 London Olympics, I will leave you until tomorrow, with something sweet to think about ..........</div>
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<br />Melaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07602489328806704546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790696891995738057.post-8213515870874575402012-08-10T06:15:00.000-07:002012-08-10T06:16:38.028-07:00My Dad at the 1948 London Olympics - Blog Day 15Dad explained that he did not expect to be finished so early in his boxing competition during the 1948 London Olympics. The fact that there was a scramble to reschedule the first round earlier than planned due to the high number of boxing entries he feels, factored into it a bit. <br />
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Turning a potential negative into a positive, Dad asked for permission to leave the Olympics (as he was only seventeen years of age at the time), to take a trip to meet his maternal grandparents who lived in Scotland. He was granted permission to take this trip, and made his way to Glasgow, Scotland, and to his grandparents' home.<br />
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He had never met them before, but his mother had written to her parents about her eldest son being in the Olympic Games representing Canada in boxing. Dad's grandfather answered the door and found this seventeen year old young man wearing his Canadian Olympic suit. Dad introduced himself and said "I am your grandson, Fred, from Montreal. Bridget's son!" Dad said his grand-father was rather surprised and even momentarily confused and said, "I just saw you on the telly! You were looking pretty good in your match!"<br />
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Dad was surprised to hear that since having a television was extremely rare at that time. His family back home in Montreal didn't have a television and had to listen to the Olympic coverage on radio. I had read that only one in ten Americans had ever seen a television in 1948. As mentioned in a previous blog, these were the first Olympic games to have ever been televised.<br />
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It was a pretty significant accomplishment to meet his grand-parents for the first time on top of being in Great Britain on the Canadian Olympic team. <br />
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I learned about Dad's grandparents (my great-grandparents) when I was in Grade 3 and had to complete a Family Tree as a class assignment in school. Nanny (Dad's mother) informed me that she was one of twenty-one children (no twins!!). What was even more remarkable was that Nanny could rhyme off the names of each of her twenty siblings. My Family Tree was certainly disproportionate; heavily weighted with Dad's massive family ...... and my mother's basically took up the margin side of the page!<br />
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Needless to say, this amazing couple would likely not have been able to keep track of their grandchildren! No wonder it was a shock when Dad showed up on their door step.<br />
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Dad (left) with his maternal grand-parents, Peter and Ellen (nee McGuire) Gormley along with Dad's Uncle</div>
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Dad's grandmother, Ellen Gormley and two of Dad's uncles, Daniel (youngest) and Michael.<br />
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Just as an additional comment regarding the aspect that the 1948 London Olympics were the first ones ever televised, I would like to close off today's writing by sharing a reference to it along with a short story about two of the Canadian Olympic athletes as reported recently in The Globe and Mail, July 27th, 2012.<br />
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<i>"And for the first time, those moments were captured extensively through television broadcasts. Viewers were transfixed, including the athletes. Lorne (Ace) Atkinson, a cyclist from Vancouver who died in 2010, loved to tell the story of a fellow athlete who was enthralled by his first television experience --- until he noticed an empty track lane appear on the screen. "That's my race!" he said."</i> (From "Olympic Flashback: Rubble in the Streets, Pride in their Hearts" written by Hayley Mick for The Globe and Mail, July 27, 2012)<br />
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<br /></div>Melaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07602489328806704546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790696891995738057.post-56690351292967434832012-08-09T05:52:00.005-07:002012-08-09T06:21:56.379-07:00My Dad at the 1948 London Olympics - Day 14If you have been reading "<i>My Dad at the 1948 Olympics</i>" consecutively, you will recall, a couple of days ago I mentioned how there was something in common with the Boxing Team and the Swimming Team in the 1948 London Olympics .... other than being photographed a lot together in the case with my Dad's photos of the Canadian Olympic Team!
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As we know, these were known as the Austerity Games. No new venues were built in London in 1948 to house any of the Olympic games or the Olympic athletes as money was extremely tight following World War II. The economy was not in good shape and food was still being rationed for these first Olympic games to be held after a twelve year hiatus due to the war.<br />
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Today, on this day, in 1948, the Boxing event took place, in the Wembley Empire Pool and I mean "IN" the pool! I find this absolutely remarkable!!! Had there not been so many boxers participating, all of the boxing events were to take place in the Empire Pool during this second week of the London 1948 Olympics after all of the swimming pool events had concluded during the first week. So the swimmers and the boxers shared the same sports venue. A floating Boxing Ring was constructed and it sat in the swimming pool. They did not even have a chance to drain the pool prior to running the Boxing events such as the ones held sixty-four years ago today. <br />
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Canada's Boxer Armand Savoie is shown competing against Iran's Jamshid Fani. As the newspaper article notes (below), Savoie won his match. The article also mentions his other team mates, including my Dad, lost to judge's decisions on the previous Saturday (Blog Day 12).<br />
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Dad has an extensive scrapbook filled with newspaper clippings from his own entire boxing career. However, he was missing news paper coverage while away in London for the Olympic games. I was able to retrieve this one, along with a few others from the Quebec Archive Library. They were very helpful.<br />
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This is the Bantamweight Medal Presentation at the Pool. Hungary took Gold; Italy took Silver; and Puerto Rico won Bronze.</div>
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Dad did, however, take notes of the Lightweight Division on this day as you can see in the following photo.</div>
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This next photo shows the same pool being used for the Olympic swimming events the previous week. This was why a new venue had to be found quickly when they realized they needed to schedule an additional boxing event prior to August 9th. <i>See Blog 12 which describes what happened</i>. It had always been planned that Swimming would use Wembley's Empire Pool in Week 1 and then Boxing would use the pool in Week 2.</div>
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Here is a photograph of the U.S. Divers. 3 of the 4 ladies below achieved medals.<br />
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U.S. Divers Vicki Draves (2 Gold Medals); Zoe Olsen-Jensen (Silver Medalist); Juno Stover-Irwin; and, Patricia Elsener (Bronze).<br />
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U.S. Springboard dive winners: Zoe Ann Olson (left); Vicki Manolo Draves (centre); and Patty Elsener (right) with their Olympic medals.<br />
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Dad has an autographed photograph of the double gold medalist, Vicki Graves (above), where she has signed the front of the photograph to him, "Best Wishes from Mrs. Vicki Draves. U.S.A."</div>
<br />Melaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07602489328806704546noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790696891995738057.post-83167761546871448792012-08-08T07:03:00.001-07:002012-08-08T07:04:56.066-07:00My Dad at the 1948 London Olympics - Blog Day 13The Canadian Olympic Team spent almost four weeks in London during the Summer of 1948 for the London Olympics. Their ship, the R.M.S. Aquitania, arrived in Southampton on July 22nd and they were in London until August 17th. <br />
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Here is a selection of my Dad's photos taken while out and about in London and the surrounding areas over the course of the team's stay in the Summer of 1948.<br />
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A group photo of Dad with some of his team mates.<br />
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Dad's caption written on the back of this photo reads, "LONDON TRANSPORT CO. London, Eng."</div>
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This photo is captioned, "South African girls at Lancaster Gate of Buckingham Palace, London, Eng." I see a few of the Canadian boys around the girls .... sensing a bit of a theme here. I wonder if they're swimmers?!<br />
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This photo says, "Parliament Bridge, London, Eng." </div>
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Dad has written, "Picaddilly Circus, London, Eng."</div>
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"Joey Sandulo, Boxer"</div>
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....and last, but certainly not least, here's my Dad! </div>Melaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07602489328806704546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790696891995738057.post-18269180884409079522012-08-07T05:48:00.000-07:002012-08-07T05:48:06.831-07:00My Dad at the 1948 London Olympics - Blog Day 12The 1948 London Olympics were known as the Austerity Games. It was the first time in twelve years that there were any Olympic games as 1940 and 1944 were cancelled because of World War II. London had little time to prepare as host, and very little money. Food was still being rationed. No new buildings were constructed for these Games, and as noted previously, athletes were billeted in three different areas around London as opposed to having an Olympic Village built for them.<br />
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There was a larger than expected number of entries in Boxing which forced a re-scheduling of the first rounds for the Olympic Boxing competitions; now held in the first week and not the second. An extra day of boxing had to be scheduled to accommodate all of the 205 Boxing entries from 39 nations; more entries and participating nations than any other previous Olympic Games. This extra date and first round of competition was held on <span style="text-align: center;">Saturday, August 7th, 1948 (and yes, I have intentionally planned this writing to coincide with today's date, August 7th, 2012). The venue to be used for the second week of the Olympic Games was not available for Boxing as of yet, so the Empress Hall Earl's Court was used on a last minute basis. </span><br />
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This is Dad's copy of the Official Programme ......<br />
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While I have not included every page, the Bantamweight page that shows my Dad's event, also shows how he personally kept track with notes made in his own handwriting. He was matched against the Australian, J.W. Carruthers who went on to the next event on Monday, August 9th.<br />
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Dad doesn't have any photos of himself at all in competition during the Olympics, so I thought I would include some action photos of him boxing to get a sense of how the action looks with Dad in the ring. <br />
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While Dad did not bring home an Olympic medal, this is a medal he received earlier that same year as the Canadian Champion.</div>
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The back of the medal reads, "118 LBS. WINNER Boxing 1948 FRED DAIGLE</div>
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As an Olympic competitor, Dad also received the pin and ribbon below.</div>
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The Opening Ceremonies for the 1948 London Olympics were held at London's Wembley Stadium</div>
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The Canadian Olympic Team walking into Wembley Stadium which shows where Dad was in the group.</div>
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Here, the Canadian Olympic Team ladies are on their way to the flag unveiling ceremony, lead by Ann Clark from the Women's Track Team.<br />
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.... and marching past the King and Queen of England.</div>
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The Olympians were to look at King George as they passed, and as you can see below, King George stood to salute the athletes.<br />
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King George, father of the current Queen Elizabeth, is the King who has recently been made famous from the film, "The King's Speech". He is the same King who presided over the 1948 London Olympics and to whom "God Save the King" was sung. His wife, Queen Elizabeth, is who became known as the Queen Mother .... the currently Queen Elizabeth's mother.<br />
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This was the first Olympics that was ever televised (television camera on the left) ...... although in my father's case, his family back in Canada did not have a television so they relied on listening to the radio for their Olympic coverage in 1948.<br />
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The Olympic Torch is carried by England's athlete, John Mark where he lit the Olympic Flame under the Olympic motto that was above the stands.<br />
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The Olympic Motto was a quotation from the founder of the Olympics, Baron Pierre de Coubertin:<br />
"The important thing in the Olympic games is not winning, but taking part. The essential thing in life is not conquering, but fighting well."<br />
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This 4-3/4 inch by 3-1/2 inch card was tucked inside my Dad's Passport used in 1948, along with his return ticket to show what Berth he was staying in on the ship and the stamped landing card to indicate their arrival back into Halifax. </div>
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Part of the opening ceremonies was the release of 7,000 pigeons.</div>
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This photo shows the crowds of people on the street outside Wembley Stadium.</div>
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This is a rare colour photograph of the Opening Ceremonies.</div>
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Needless to say, my Dad said he and his team mates were overwhelmed, in awe and excited to be part of the Opening Ceremonies. Dad said he couldn't sleep that night as he was so wound up with excitement following such an incredible day.<br />
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The following video, while not in English, shows some of the Canadian Olympic Team at the 1:03 minute point .....<br />
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This following video is a montage of various video clips of the Opening Ceremonies.<br />
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I would like to mention Canada's 2012 Olympian, Mary Spencer, who is part of yet another Olympic historic moment with a female Boxing Event for the first time ever. While Mary did not become an Olympic medal contender today, she is still a wonderful representative for Canada. Way to go Mary!</div>Melaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07602489328806704546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790696891995738057.post-83726289515332216962012-08-05T07:47:00.003-07:002012-08-05T07:47:40.786-07:00My Dad at the 1948 London Olympics - Blog Day 10<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
The Canadian Olympic Team spent several weeks through July and August, 1948 at Uxbridge R.A.F. Camp which was one of three areas where the Canadian Olympians were billeted for their stay for the 1948 London Olympics.</div>
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Most of these photos today focus on the Swim Team since there is an <b>abundance </b>of photos of them in my Dad's personal photo collection. Who knew that Swimmers and Boxers got along so well?! Well, in an upcoming blog, you will see something else in common between the Swimmers and the Boxers at the 1948 London Olympics.</div>
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My Dad certainly seemed to take a shining to the swimmers ....... as seen in the very first photo below where he is photographed with Canadian Swimmer, Joyce Court.</div>
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Canadian Swimmer, Joyce Court with my Dad.</div>
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Here is Joyce Court again with my Dad's fellow boxing team mate, Joey Sandulo</div>
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This photo apparently took Dad two tries. He has captioned the back of each of them with the same description which is: "Irene Strong, Vivien King, Kay McNamee, Joyce Court at Uxbridge".</div>
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Yes, there were male swimmers as well on the Canadian Olympic Team, which was hard to tell with all the previous photos taken on Dad's camera; here in Uxbridge as well as on their ship crossing over from Canada to England. Here is the entire Canadian Olympic Swimming Team below.</div>
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I personally prefer these more candid, relaxed poses versus the professional ones that were taken of each team. This would have been the set-up for the professional team photo. I am a little intrigued by the cape-like wraps the female swimmers wore for their official team outfit. </div>
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Dad has captioned the back of this photo, "Vivian King and Peter Mingie at Uxbridge". Here you can see the cape a little better that was part of the female Olympic Swimmers' outfit.</div>
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Dad has captioned this one, "Wrestler 123-1/2" (weight, just like the Boxers)</div>
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I would like to extend congratulations to Canada's Rosie McLennan on her achievement of our 1st Gold Medal at the 2012 London Olympics yesterday for Trampouline. How good did that sound hearing Canada's National Anthem played for the world yesterday with Rosie on the podium?! <br />
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The Canadian Olympic Team's Boxing Team spent their time in England at the R.A.F. Camp in Uxbridge at the London 1948 Olympics.</div>
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The caption Dad has written on the back of the above photo says "1948 TEAM". This is a professional photograph with a stamp on the back that reads: "Supplied by CENTRAL PRESS PHOTOS LTD. Incorporating - Central News Illustrations Service, 119, Fleet Street, London, E.C. 4"</div>
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The following article appeared in <i>The Montreal Daily Star</i> .... again I added the second photo to show where Dad is in the training group in Uxbridge.</div>
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The darker markings on the newspaper clippings is where the articles were taped into Dad's scrapbook. Dad has a very large scrapbook with all of his original news clippings in it from his entire Boxing career. I made photocopies for my brother, Len and I, many years ago. <br />
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This photo is not captioned, but shows Dad posing at Uxbridge.</div>
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This photo is also not captioned, but shows Joey Ssndulo in a similar style of pose.</div>
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Armand Savoie posing in his official boxing gear.</div>
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Dad has captioned this photo above, "U.S.A. Boxers F. Sodano 112, B. Bassio 118 sparring at Uxbridge"</div>
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The numbers refer to their weights. This would have been what Dad was watching when he made the comments in the above news article regarding the competition.</div>Melaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07602489328806704546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790696891995738057.post-68738564393334176772012-08-03T06:39:00.000-07:002012-08-03T13:38:59.232-07:00My Dad at the 1948 London Olympics - Blog Day 8<div style="text-align: center;">
Despite the Canadian Olympic Team spending seven days on the R.M.S. Aquitania to cross the Atlantic together, bound for the 1948 London Olympics, today is the final blog dedicated to the photos taken during the Trans-Atlantic journey. </div>
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As their ship, the R.M.S. Aquitania came closer to land, the photos illustrate the excitement of the Canadian Olympic team athletes; pointing to landmarks in the Southampton Sea Port. There are several photos in Dad's collection of individual ships that they see in the Port. Here are a couple of such photos.<br />
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This photo is captioned, "Queen Elizabeth at Southampton Dock" (referring to the ship).</div>
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This would be another view, and showing the athletes taking in all the sights of Southampton. Dad's caption reads, "Southampton Docks - Queen Elizabeth in background".</div>
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These are three of the Canadian Basketball players (two are named on the back: Reid Mitchell and Ole Bakken). The Canadian team is on shore and about to embark on the train which will take them into London. Rolled up shirt sleeves and sunglasses is evident of nice weather for their arrival into England.</div>
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For many of the Canadian Olympic Team, their "home-away-from-home" was what the team mates referred to as the Uxbridge Dormitory. They were billeted in the R.A.F. Camp in Uxbridge.</div>
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Dad's caption on the back of this above photo reads, "Uxbridge Dormitory, All Nations flags and Olympian flag".</div>
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<br /></div>Melaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07602489328806704546noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790696891995738057.post-43646147486427105682012-07-31T22:30:00.001-07:002012-08-02T06:47:00.900-07:00My Dad at the 1948 London Olympics - Blog Day 7Here are more of my Dad's photos taken of the Canadian Olympic Team as they crossed the Atlantic Ocean together to get to the 1948 Olympic Games in London. Any captions shown in quotation marks are taken from my father's writing on the back of the photos.<br />
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Dad is hamming it up for the camera with a team mate.</div>
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Dad at Sunset on the High Seas</div>
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""Sunset on the Sea"</div>Melaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07602489328806704546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790696891995738057.post-29842437772017641492012-07-31T21:46:00.003-07:002012-07-31T21:46:55.288-07:00My Dad at the 1948 London Olympics - Blog Day 6<div style="text-align: center;">
The entire Canadian Olympic Team traveled by ship from Canada to England to get to the London Olympics in 1948.</div>
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Here are more photos reflecting the on-board ship life of these young Canadian athletes.</div>
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Dad (left) is looking very happy to be Olympic-bound</div>
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Boxers: Armand Savoie (Men's Featherweight)</div>
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Cliff Blackburn (Men's Welterweight)</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"> Ed Haddad (Men's Lightweight)</span></div>
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I found this on a negative strip - photos of the Aquitania in Halifax prior to the Canadian Olympic Team's departure.</div>Melaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07602489328806704546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790696891995738057.post-56716331996085237912012-07-31T07:12:00.000-07:002012-07-31T07:12:15.575-07:00My Dad at the 1948 London Olympics - Blog Day 5The Canadian Olympic Team spent seven days on board the R.M.S. Aquitania sailing across, what at times were, the rough Atlantic Seas to get from Halifax to Southampton; on their journey to the London Olympics in 1948. Dad said that their accommodation was great, considering it was a ship. He said the Boxing team would get up each morning and do their training by sparring; running; skipping, etc. Then, as you can see by the photos, they enjoyed the company of their team mates on the Aquitania.<br />
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Here are a selection of my Dad's photos taken of the Canadian Olympic Team on the ship headed for the London Olympics in 1948.<br />
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This is one of the professionally taken photographs; taken at the train station in Halifax. The marking on the back of the photo is stamped: "PHOTOGRAPH Canadian Pacific Railway Company Printed in Canada"
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Knowing my Dad, it is no surprise that there seems to be tremendous focus on the next group of photos ...... the Olympic ladies!<br />
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Dad's caption on the back simply says: "Canadian Olympic Team 1948" The photo is numbered 291 on the front and that number is also written in pencil on the back.<br />
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This photo has the same caption handwritten on the back, "Canadian Olympic Team 1948" with the number 292 on the front and the same number in pencil on the back.<br />
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This photo also has the same caption on the back: "Canadian Olympic Team 1948" with the number 294 on the front and the back.<br />
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I love seeing the fashions of the day; clothing and accessories! I am also amused by the above three photos. If you look really closely, there is a pin hole at the top of each of these three photos ---- they likely had a place of honour on a wall at some point; some where.<br />
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The handwriting on the back of this photo says: "CAN Olympic girls at Halifax". I see that some (or perhaps all of this group) have been given Halifax banners .... more obvious with the two people standing on the highest steps.<br />
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There were 118 Canadian Athletes at the 1948 London Olympics; 100 men and 18 women.Melaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07602489328806704546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790696891995738057.post-43942590218351420392012-07-28T04:53:00.001-07:002012-08-09T08:08:57.664-07:00My Dad at the 1948 London Olympics - Blog Day 2This is a photo of my Dad training for the London Olympics in 1948.<br />
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The long journey to the London Olympics in 1948 commences .....<br />
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The Canadian Olympic Team traveled by train from across the country to Halifax. They sailed from Halifax to Southampton in England together to go to the London Olympics.
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Dad wrote on the back of this photo: "Fred and Marilyn July 14, 1948 C.N.R. Station"<br />
Dad's Sweetheart came to see him off from Montreal. Judging by the look of this photo (above) and how it was folded, it looks like it was the photo he carried around with him in his wallet.... and pulled out, a lot!<br />
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This photo again is captioned on the back, "Fred and Marilyn July 14, 1948 C.N.R. Station"<br />
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Dad's handwritten caption on the back of this photo says "Olympic Wrestlers C.N.R. Sta" (taken outside the C.N.R. Station).<br />
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Dad wrote on the back of many of his photos and unfortunately in this one, the ink has soaked through. This photo is of Bill Hamilton who is an Olympic Cyclist; taken on the train.
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<br />Melaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07602489328806704546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790696891995738057.post-14687848094789318302012-07-27T14:21:00.001-07:002012-07-27T18:46:38.004-07:00My Dad at the 1948 London Olympics - Blog Day 1My Dad, Frederick William Daigle, was a Canadian Olympian in the 1948 Summer Olympics that took place in London, England. The games were officially known as the Games of the XIV Olympiad. Sixty-four years later, and on the day of the official opening of the Games of the XXX Olympiad also taking place in London, England, I thought I would share some memories from my Dad's photo collection taken from the former Summer London Olympics in 1948. A few of the photos were professionally taken and I will provide photo credits where given, but most are from Dad's own camera. Dad, now 81, is not on a computer so would not have this ability to share these photographic memories. They are, particularly relevant now with the Olympics taking place once more in London.<br />
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Dad is and always has been very humble and extremely shy. While he was known to be an exceptional Boxer in his day, and was a Canadian Golden Gloves Champion, he downplays his Olympic "athletic" experience. This outlet will thus serve to share some of the photographs taken during the 1948 Olympic Games which are entirely focused on the athletes themselves, rather than their competitions. For those who believe that "a picture is worth a thousand words", and even moreso ... "the eyes are but a window to the soul", you will see, as I do, the true spirit these young athletes had through this photograph collection. They had the opportunity to cross the Atlantic together as one team by ship; sharing their collective dream of representing Canada to the world at the Olympic Games. <br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Dad will undoubtedly be glued to his television from today through August 12th in his home in Montreal along with my step-Mom, Betty. The 1948 Olympics were the first Olympic games televised (in black and white, of course).</span><br />
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PHOTO CREDIT: Graphic Photo Union, Gray's Inn Road, London<br />
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The London Olympics were the first Olympic games held right after World War II. Because of the War, there were no games held in either 1940 or 1944. The City of London had very little time to prepare to host these games, and no doubt the 59 participating countries had the same challenges in preparing their respective Olympic teams.<br />
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The Canadian Olympic Team - London Olympics, 1948</div>
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