Luther Vipond, c.1945
Description
- Creator
- Unknown, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Prints
- Description
- Black and white negative showing Luther Vipond in his Second World War military uniform.
- Notes
- Luther Ernest Vipond was born at Brooklin on 20 September 1914. He was a star hockey and lacrosse player and from 1954-1979 he was manager of the Brooklin Memorial Arena and a mentor for many Brooklin sports clubs.
Vipond was injured in an accident in May 1982 and died in a Toronto hospital on 24 May 1982. He is buried at Groveside Cemetery, Brooklin.
On 14 November 1982, the Brooklin Memorial Arena was renamed the Luther Vipond Memorial Arena. In 2011, Vipond was posthumously inducted into the Whitby Sports Hall of Fame. - Date of Original
- c.1945
- Dimensions
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Width: 8 in
Height: 10 in
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Vipond
- Local identifier
- 31-009-564
- Collection
- Whitby Online Historic Photographs Collection
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.9541982187266 Longitude: -78.9556639788818
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- Creative Commons licence
[more details]- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian copyright law. No restrictions on use.
- Recommended Citation
- Luther Vipond, c.1945, unknown photographer, Whitby Archives, 31-009-564.
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from print.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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