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Who: A Charlottetown golfer. The latest: Kane is part of Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2020-21. She will also receive the Oder of Sport award, Canada’s highest sporting honour.
The class: The athletes being inducted are John (Jackie) Barrett, powerlifting and Special Olympian; Sonja Gaudet, wheelchair curling; Diane Jones Konihowski, athletics; Eric Lamaze and Hickstead, equestrian/showjumping; Steve Nash, basketball. The builders are Duncan Campbell, wheelchair rugby; Sheldon Kennedy, hockey; Judy Kent, sports administration; Willie O’Ree, hockey; and Ross Powless, lacrosse. They were selected from more than 260 public nominations.
Ceremony: The induction ceremony has been postponed until 2021 due to the coronavirus (COVID-19 strain) pandemic. The hall: The 40,000-square foot building with state-of-the-art technology opened in Calgary in 2011. The original hall opened in 1955 in Toronto and operated until 1993. Not including this year’s class, there are 673 members of the Hall of Fame, representing 67 sports. More on the hall is available at www.sportshall.ca.
Island members: Lt.-Col. Dan MacKinnon was the first to be inducted when he went in as a builder in harness racing in 1961 while Joe O’Brien was inducted as an athlete in harness racing in 1965. Elmer Ferguson was inducted as a sports journalist in 1968. He was the sports editor of the Montreal Herald from 1913-52.
Did you know? Kane won the P.E.I. junior girls’ championship twice and was named women’s amateur champion nine times between 1983 and 1992 in her home province. Internationally, she was the Mexican amateur champion in 1991, was a member of the Canadian world amateur team in 1991 and represented Canada at the Commonwealth Games in 1991, the World Cup in 1992, 2005, 2006 and 2008 and the Pan American Games in 2015. In 1997 and 2000 she was named Canadian female athlete of the year, and in 2006 she received the Order of Canada. She was named The Guardian’s newsmaker of the year in 1999 and 2000. She was inducted into the P.E.I. Sports Hall of Fame in 2014 and the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame in