Kenneth Farmer
{{Short description|Canadian ice hockey player and businessman (1912–2005)}}
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{{Infobox person
| image = Hockey FARMER Ken.jpg
| image_size = 230px
| caption = Ken Farmer in McGill Redmen uniform
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birth date|1912|7|26}}
| birth_place = Westmount, Quebec, Canada
| death_date = {{death date and age|2005|1|12|1912|7|26}}
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| occupation = accountant, ice hockey player, administrator, soldier
| known_for = President of Canadian Olympic Association, Olympic silver medal winner
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{{Infobox ice hockey player
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| name = Kenneth Penton Farmer
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| career_start = 1930
| career_end = 1939
|played_for = McGill Redmen
Montreal Victorias
Port Arthur Bearcats
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{{MedalSport | Men's Ice Hockey}}
{{MedalSilver| 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen | Team}}
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Kenneth Pentin Farmer, {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|CM}} (July 26, 1912 – January 12, 2005) was a Canadian ice hockey player and businessman. He won a Winter Olympics silver medal winner in ice hockey, served as president of the Canadian Olympic Association, and worked as a chartered accountant.
Background
Born in Westmount, Quebec, he received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from McGill University. In 1934 he joined the accounting firm of McDonald Currie & Company (now Coopers & Lybrand) and became a Chartered Accountant in 1937. He became a partner in 1945 until his retirement in 1977.
Farmer was an outstanding hockey player. He was a member of the 1936 Port Arthur Bearcats, which won the silver medal for Canada in ice hockey at the 1936 Winter Olympics. He had the second-highest points at the Olympics with 10 goals and four assists.{{cite web|url=https://www.hockey-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ken-farmer-1|title=Ken Farmer Olympic Stats|website=hockey-reference.com|access-date=December 4, 2017}} Canada had been expected to win the gold medal, but several incidents led to winning the silver medal instead. After the Olympics, Farmer stated that none of Canada's officials knew what playoff system was being used and that E. A. Gilroy and Fred Marples "were blissfully unaware of what it was all about".{{cite news|title=Condemnation Heaped Upon Canadian Olympic Officials|date=March 23, 1936|newspaper=Winnipeg Free Press|location=Winnipeg, Manitoba|page=14|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/sports-clipping-mar-23-1936-1709867/}}{{free access}}
During World War II, he served with The Royal Montreal Regiment and the Manitoba Dragoons. He was discharged with the rank of Major and was Mentioned in Dispatches in 1945.
From 1953 to 1961, he was the President of the Canadian Olympic Association. He was President of the Commonwealth Games Association of Canada from 1977 to 1983. He was a Governor of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame from 1980 to 1990.{{cite web|url=http://www.sportshall.ca/media/files/upload/Past%20Board%20of%20Governors%20and%20Past%20Honoured%20Member%20Selection%20Committee.pdf|title=Past Board of Governors|publisher=Canada's Sports Hall of Fame|access-date=December 4, 2017}}
Honours
- 1971, inducted into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame in 1971[https://web.archive.org/web/20200417192352/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/fa/ken-farmer-1.html Ken Farmer at Sports Reference]
- 1981, made a Member of the Order of Canada
- 1987, inducted into the Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame as a member of the 1936 Olympic team
- 1999, inducted to the McGill University Sports Hall of Fame
References
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Sources
- {{cite web|url=http://www.utpress.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/cw2w3.cgi?p=faas&t=72328&d=1012 |title=Canadian Who's Who 1997 entry |work=University of Toronto Press }}{{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- {{cite web|url=http://www.athletics.mcgill.ca/varsity_sports_article.ch2?article_id=785 |title=OBIT: Olympian Ken Farmer dies at 92 |work=McGill University |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060503044305/http://www.athletics.mcgill.ca/varsity_sports_article.ch2?article_id=785 |archive-date=2006-05-03 }}
- {{cite web|url=http://www.athletics.mcgill.ca/varsity_sports_article.ch2?article_id=781 |title=OBIT: Ken Farmer, oldest surviving Redmen player |work=McGill University |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060503044311/http://www.athletics.mcgill.ca/varsity_sports_article.ch2?article_id=781 |archive-date=2006-05-03 }}
External links
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Category:Anglophone Quebec people
Category:Ice hockey players at the 1936 Winter Olympics
Category:McGill University Faculty of Management alumni
Category:Medalists at the 1936 Winter Olympics
Category:Members of the Order of Canada
Category:Olympic ice hockey players for Canada
Category:Olympic medalists in ice hockey
Category:Olympic silver medalists for Canada