Adversity Failed To Bother Irwin
- Publication
- Chronicle-Journal (Thunder Bay), 21 Apr 1979
Description
- Media Type
- Newspaper
- Description
- Bill Irwin ; made Canadian Olympic ski team in 1940 ; games were a casualty of war ; five years in armed forces ; made the team again ; injury in 1965 ; born in Princeton, B.C. ; took up ski jumping, cross country in 1929 ; introduced to alpine four years later ; added slalom ; homemade skis ; won first big race in 1937 ; trained ski troops in army ; olympic trials in 1948 ; injured in training ; no medals ; came to Thunder Bay ; opened Lock Lochmond in 1956, son Dave Irwin ; won World Cup race in 1975 in Austria ; photo
- Notes
- Full text available in Newspaper Clipping File
File subject: LF - Thunder Bay - Biography - Irwin, Bill
Full text available on microfilm
- Date of Publication
- 21 Apr 1979
- Subject(s)
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 48.4001 Longitude: -89.31683
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