The Glace Bay Sports Heritage Society has once again created a calendar featuring 12 photos of teams from Glace Bay’s celebrated sports past.
The calendar is a fundraising effort for charitable organizations, scholarships and sports-related activities.
In the new calendar, the month of January has the 1947-48 Glace Bay YAC hockey team that captured the Nova Scotia midget championship, while February features the 1949-50 No. 11 Canadian Legion rugby team, McCurdy Cup finalists.
On the March page is the 1952 Bay By’s softball team, winners of the Nova Scotia Senior ‘A’ title and April has the 1957 Parkside juvenile baseball squad that won the Cape Breton title that year.
The image featured for the month of May is one of the 1959 Sterling Pirates Little League team that won the town championship that year, while June has the Cape Breton champion 1965-66 Glace Bay Junior Miners hockey team.
Nova Scotia title holders from 1977, the Glace Bay Alpine senior fastball team, is July’s featured team.
The August image comes from the 1985-86 Glace Bay Bantam ‘B’ Hawks hockey team. That squad was the Nova Scotia champions that year.
In September readers will find the 1991 edition of the Glace Bay Colonels Little League team that claimed the Canadian Little League title.
The month of October image shows the members of the 1993 Table Head intermediate ‘D’ fastball team, winners of the Nova Scotia title that year.
November has the 1994-95 Glace Bay Irving Miners bantam ‘AAA’ hockey team, a Cape Breton finalist that year, leaving the 2013 Joe Parsons Construction Islanders hockey team with the honour of holding the last page of the calendar with the month of December spot. That club won the ‘A’ division of the annual Jason Simmons Memorial Hockey Tournament.
Bonus photos are seen on the cover where an image from 1920 of the Alexandra Rink on McKeen Street is found and inside where a photo of the 1934-35 Hub Hawks team that won the Cape Breton senior hockey championship can be seen.
Calendars cost $10 each and can be obtained from Barry Verbeski, 849-0313, Cecil MacQueen, 849-2471, Joe (Gobbler) MacDonald, 849-6783 and Rudy MacDougall, 849-6186.
( January) 1947-48 Glace Bay YAC hockey team, Nova Scotia midget hockey champions. Front, Guy MacQueen, Kenny Gibson, Ray Boudreau, Art Moore, Ralston (Boops) Adshade, Buddy Sharp, Alex Crewe; back row, John MacAskill, Eddie Roberts, Donald MacKeigan,...
(February) 1949-50 No. 11 Canadian Legion Rugby, McCurdy Cup finalists. Front, Ambrose MacKinnon, Alfie Kubik, Ron Ferguson, Rolly Heustis, Jim O’Dell, Jerry MacLeod and Bill Butts; back, Don MacMullin, Joe Currie, Toots MacIntosh, Sid Adshade, John...
(August) 1985-86 Glace Bay Bantam ‘B’ Hawks hockey team, provincial champions. Left, front, Jamie Shea, Duane Kelloway, Sheldon Boutilier, David Byrne, Darren MacDonald, Ein MacDonald, Shawn MacLeod; back, Murray Kelloway, David Scott, Bobby Martell,...
(April) 1957 Parkside Juvenile baseball team, Cape Breton champions. Front row, Jimmy ( Jinx) Brooks, Vic Slade, Leo MacNeil, Jackie MacPherson, Billy MacLeod, Peter Hogan; middle, Bill ( Wimpy) Cameron, Abbie Michalik, Teddy Greencorn, Donald (Ducky)...
(May) 1959 Sterling Pirates Little League, Glace Bay champions. Left, front, Sandy Rideout, Greg Doyle, Ronnie Francis, Gerard Pickering, Greg Ward; middle, Krim Francis, Billy Mischiek, Eddy Nedruben, Dave Ogilvie, Buddy MacNeil, Wilf Ogilvie; back,...
(March) 1952 Bay By’s softball team, Nova Scotia Senior ‘A’ softball champions. Front, Earl MacDonald, Art Petite, Bo Campbell, Sam Wareham, James (Brassie) MacPherson, Gerry Croney, Frank Bond; middle, Alex MacLeod, Toby Ingraham, Phil Turnbull, Doug...
(October) 1993 Table Head Intermediate ‘D’ fastball team, Nova Scotia champions. Front, Doug MacDonald, Bernie Cochrane, Danny Bourgeois, Joey Neville, Jimmy Dean, Todd Binder; middle, Brad Penney, Boo Currie, Allan Acker, Keith McIntyre, Greg Hicks...
( June) 1965-66 Glace Bay Junior Miners hockey team, Cape Breton champions. Front, Gary Shore, Nelson Bourgeois, Howard Peach, Patty Nearing, Larry Shanahan, Joey Andrea, Jerry MacPhee, Leo MacIsaac, Billy MacMullin, Bernie Borden; back, Rocky Ford,...
(November) 1994-95 Glace Bay Irving Miners Bantam ‘AAA’ hockey, Cape Breton finalist. Front, Barry Verbeski, Charles Nash, Kent Verbeski, Steve McNeil, Francis Saccary, Freddie Currie, Joey Pembroke, John Maxner; back, Sonny MacDougall, Jason Doucette,...
(September) 1991 Glace Bay Colonels Little League, Canadian champions. Front, Terry Cuzner, Scott Meechan, Roy Mugford, Donnie Burke, Steve McNeil, Troy Sampson, Butch Kelloway; back, Henry Boutilier, Robert Grant, Freddie Currie, Chris Cadegan,...
(December) 2013 Joe Parsons Construction Islanders hockey team, Jason Simmons Memorial Tournament Division ‘A’ champions. Front, Mark Rafferty, Marc Bourgeois, Zach MacQueen, Ryan Joe MacKenzie, Mike Ford, Brad Cuzner; back, Travis Turner, Steve Kuhn,...
( July) 1977 Glace Bay Alpines senior fastball team, Nova Scotia champions. Front, Jackie Scott, Francis Bonnar, Lorne Clarke, Bob Baxter, Archie Nicholson; middle, Sonny Simmons, Jackie Ferguson, Kenny Graham, Clary Warner, Cliff Surette, Jimmy...