Gertrude Phinney, Canadian Track and Field Star from Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia Among the very earliest of several amazing Nova Scotian female sprinters; she qualified for the 1928 Olympics; followed by…

Middle and Long Distance Runner Noel Paul was born in 1904 in Halfway River, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, and died in 1984 at age 80 at Millbrook First Nation just…

Olympic Runner, Teacher, Artist. Aileen Meagher moved from Alberta to Halifax as a 7 year old in 1917. Aileen set Canadian records for the 100 and 220 yard events in…

Eldridge Eatmen was a native of Zealand Station, a small village prominent in the mid-1800s in New Brunswick, not far from Fredericton, where he was born on March 12, 1880.…

Some sports have a solitary and singular nature to them. Long distance running is one of them. It’s summed up in the title of a great 1962 English movie called,…