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Ian Alistar Allison (July 26, 1909[1] – August 4, 1990) was a Canadian basketball player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. His is the only Canadian basketball team to date to win a medal at the Olympics, a silver. He played all six matches including the final.
[edit] Early life and working life
Allison was born in Greenock, Scotland and, while still young, migrated to Canada with his family. They lived across from Walkerville Collegiate Institute, the school he attended for high school. He then attended Assumption College and finally University of Toronto. After graduation, he went back to Walkerville to work as a teacher. A year later he married one of the secretaries of the school, and eventually the couple had two daughters. Allison retired from teaching in 1973.
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- ^ other sources report his year of birth: 1907
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