New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame
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The New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame was established in 1970 to honor outstanding athletes, teams and sport builders in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. The facilities are located in the provincial capital city of Fredericton.
[edit] Some Hall of Fame members
- Earl Avery - Harness Racing Hall of Fame driver
- Sandra Barr - Athletics/Basketball
- Tony Currie - National Hockey League player
- Mabel DeWare - National curling champion
- Gordie Drillon - National Hockey League player
- Yvon Durelle - boxing champion
- Danny Grant - National Hockey League player
- Russ Howard - Olympic Gold Medal in curling
- Manny McIntyre - hockey and baseball star, in 1946 he became the first Black Canadian to sign a professional baseball contract
- Willie O'Ree - first Black player in the National Hockey League
- The Paris Crew - world rowing champions
- Ron Turcotte - Hall of Fame jockey who rode Secretariat to the Triple Crown
- Mabel Thomson - golfing champion
- Charles Kenneth Corbett - all around athlete, rugby, football, boxing, swimming