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Lionel Conacher, the “Big Train”

Lionel Conacher as a football player in Toronto, 1933. Lionel Conacher crosse · Unknown author · Photo source · Photo licence: Public domain. Resized for display; item previews may be cropped. The image remains under the licence shown.

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Lionel “Big Train” Conacher excelled at six professional sports and was voted Canada’s all-round male athlete of the half-century in 1950. A star of football and lacrosse who helped win the 1921 Grey Cup, he played in the National Hockey League from 1925 to 1937 on two Stanley Cup-winning teams, then was elected to the Ontario legislature and, in 1949, to the House of Commons.

Scope & context

Conacher’s career as described in his designation.

Sources behind this record

Lionel Pretoria Conacher National Historic Person ↗

Parks Canada (Directory of Federal Heritage Designations)

Importance; plaque text