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Evelyn Mainwaring

Inducted into the Brockville and Area Sports Hall of Fame: June 13th, 2003

Eve was born in Estonia and was always surrounded by horses. She received her first formal lessons from a Russian Sergeant. She emigrated to Canada in 1950. She moved to Brockville, where she met her husband Bertie. He encouraged her interests in horses, from fixing an old stable to the present facility of 40 boarders and school horses. St. Alban’s has come a long way. Eve is a level 2 coach and a recognized judge in dressage. Equitation and hunter/jumper.

She is a lifetime Director of the Canadian Warmblood Horsebreeders Association. Eve is known as the Best Horse Woman in Canada. The most famous example would be her involvement in Canada’s most famous jumper, “Big Ben”. She instills sportsmanship, promotes camaraderie and supports those who share her passion for horses.

Mac MacLean

Inducted into the Brockville and Area Sports Hall of Fame: June 10th, 2016

Mac MacLean is a CJHL and CCHL legend. He has produced some of the league’s all-time coaching records. Mac has held a variety of capacities from Commissioner, to Owner, General Manager and Head Coach. He Coached the OHL’s Sudbury Wolves and Kitchener Rangers. He won four CCHL League Championships in Pembroke, Brockville and Hawksbury.

Mac guided the Brockville Braves to their first league championship in 1985-86. He is the Braves’ record holder for games coached (621) and most games won (324). He established a Canadian Junior A record, going undefeated in 40 consecutive games with Pembroke in 1972-73. He won back-to-back championships in Hawksbury in 1978-79, 1979-80. He is the CCHL record holder for games coached in the regular season with 1,119 games won in the regular season with 611 playoff games coached 189 and playoff wins 99.

Dennis (Pat) Beasley

Inducted into the Brockville and Area Sports Hall of Fame: June 11th, 1999

Born and raised in England, Pat enjoyed soccer as a youth. He played as a guest player for York City during the war. Out of the army, he played with the British Police. Came to Canada and played soccer for the Canadian Armed Forces and was Captain of the Canadian Soccer Team. Joined Brockville Minor Soccer Association 26 years ago as a coach and is still coaching today. He is the past President of Brockville Minor Soccer. He also became Referee in Chief for 6 years.

Pat also has grown to love hockey and was Referee in Chief of B.M.H.A. for 3 years, even though he couldn’t skate. Pat is also the British Army and British Police Road walking champion, and in 1962 won the road walking marathon in Montreal, for which he was invited to the Olympic trials.

Lawrence (Larry) Ashley

Inducted into the Brockville and Area Sports Hall of Fame: June 11th, 1999

Larry began as a stick boy with the Brockville Braves in the early 1960s. He moved to the Ottawa Nationals in the W.H.A., then joined the Toronto Toros for the 1973-1974 season. When the Toronto Totos relocated to Birmingham as the Bulls, Larry was the trainer. He then joined the NHL’s Quebec Nordiques before becoming the trainer for the Vancouver Canucks in 1981. A position he held until he passed away in 1995 at the age of 42. Larry was a member of the National Athletics Trainers Association and a past President of the Professional Hockey Trainers Association.

Jack Hoy

Inducted into the Brockville and Area Sports Hall of Fame: June 11th, 1999

Jack Hoy grew up playing baseball and hockey in Cardinal, going on as a star in baseball as a player and in hockey as a referee in the early 1950s. He was a pitcher in the St. Lawrence Senior Baseball League. Once, throwing 33 consecutive shutout innings. Known as having a decent fastball and curveball. He signed with the New York Yankees in 1953. Moving up through their farm system until reaching “AA” in 1956, before being released. He pitched inter-county league for four years. Managing the galt terriers in his last year. He spent 10 years as a slick-fielding shortstop on the Cardinal Pats fastball team. He was a referee in the Junior “B”, Intermediate and Central Junior “A” Hockey Leagues for 20 years. Known as being tough, fair and willing to talk to players.

Jim Toshack

Inducted into the Brockville and Area Sports Hall of Fame: June 11th, 2010

Jim Toshack was a physical education teacher at Maynard Public School for 33 years from 1984 to 1998. He has spent countless hours coaching thousands of young athletes in cross-country, volleyball, soccer, basketball and track and field. Including 1979 Canadian Junior Team high jumps, Cathy Marjerrison and Jan Anne Forrest. Jim Toshack also helped set up a local elementary athletic association and was one of the organizers for public school sports and tournaments that still carry on that tradition. Always working to help any athletes get better. Jim Toshack was a caring and always competitive coach.

Gordon Forbes

Inducted into the Brockville and Area Sports Hall of Fame: June 13th, 1997

Expressive and consistent, Gordon Forbes was one of the top male figure skaters in Canada during his career. Born and raised in Brockville, Forbes placed third in the Canadian Junior Championships in 1977. He began computing internationally in 1979 at the age of 19. Forbes won two skating competitions in Europe that year and placed second in another. He went on to place third in the Canadian Men’s Championships that same year. Forbes was a graceful free skater with innovative routines that included multiple triple jumps. He improved his skating and placed as high as second in the Canadian Championships in 1980.

Skating in the same era as Brian Orser and Brian Pockar, Forbes placed third in the Canadian Championships in 1984 and an impressive ninth in the worlds that year. Forbes retired from amateur skating in 1985 at the age og 25 after competing in his eighth Canadian Championship. He skated professionally for three years before turning to coaching young skaters in Ottawa.

Thain Simon

Inducted into the Brockville and Area Sports Hall of Fame: June 12th, 1998

Thain Simon has been described as one of the best athletes ever to come out of Brockville. At the Royal Canadian Henley, he won three gold and three bronze sculling medals in three years in the early 1940s. At the same time, he played defence in Junior “A” Hockey and fullback in football. For two years, he was a running back with the Ottawa Hurricanes of the Canadian Football League. In the 1947-1948 season, he played two games with the NHL’s Detroit Red Wings before suffering an injury. He continued playing semi-pro hockey before making his home in Pembroke, where he played four years of senior hockey. He is an ardent golfer.

Ted Hoy

Inducted into the Brockville and Area Sports Hall of Fame: June 9th, 1994

For five decades, Ted Hoy’s name has been associated with excellence in fastball pitching. The Cardinal native is regarded as one of the finest pitchers ever to play in Eastern Ontario. From the late 1950s the the 1970s, Ted Hoy baffled opposing hitters with an amazing change-up, pinpoint control and superior intelligence as he helped establish the Cardinal Pats as one of the premier fastball teams in the province. A member of the Brockville Diggers, Ted Hoy led the team to the Ontario Juvenile A Championship in 1961 and the Junior A Championship in 1963.

Ted Hoy’s name is a household word to any fastball fan in Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec, and he is still pitching almost 40 years after he made his debut.

Jim Shields

Inducted into the Brockville and Area Sports Hall of Fame: June 15th, 2012

Jim played hockey from an early age. In 1944, at the age of 18 he was selected to attend the Toronto Maple Leafs training camp and was offered a tryout with the Tulsa Oilers. Making the team, an injury cut the season short and he returned to Brockville to resume his junior career. He would play for the Smiths Falls Rideaus in an intermediate league and then with the Brockville Magedomas in the Ontario New York Senior League.

It was in 1962/63 when there was talk of forming a junior team in Brockville and it was at the shield’s home where the Brockville Braves were born. Jim was the coach of the Braves in their inaugural season as well as the second year. He was also the first general manager. He was hired as a scout for the Chicago Blackhawks for the Ottawa Valley in the 1965-67 era. Jim was also an excellent softball and baseball player.