Book of Honour Portraits of the Men and Women Who Shaped Our Heritage

Introduction by Lorne Rubenstein Toronto Golf Club Book of Honour Toronto Golf Club Founded in 1876

Practice green and clubhouse,1926 Christened the “father of golf in Canada” A.W. (Andy) Smith by Saturday Night magazine.

Member Andy Smith became the best golfer in Canada, After the 1896 Open, Smith returned to (1882 to 1901) and possibly North America, the moment he Scotland, where he stayed through at least arrived from Scotland. The son of St Andrews part of the 1897 season. Scottish writer John Born St Andrews, landed in 1881 having already played in an Kerr, looking to interview visiting American Scotland, Open Championship and established himself players, was mildly disappointed to find that date unknown as a highly competitive player in Scotland, a Smith had “a guid Scotch tongue in his heid’” Club champion, contemporary of top players such as Young and “could crack about his matches with 1895 Tom Morris, Willie Fernie, Davie Strath and young Tommy Morris and Davie Strath.” Ben Sayers. Participant: Smith was back in Toronto in 1898 for a He crossed the Atlantic to work at the Quebec seminal event in club history: the first 1879 Open Bank in Quebec City, but quickly relocated to international match between representative Championship London, Ontario, and then Toronto, where he golfers of Canada and the United States. He (St Andrews) joined the nascent Toronto Golf Club in 1882. played first for Canada but bowed to H.J. 1895 He won and set course records wherever he Whigham, a former U.S. Amateur champion. U.S. Open played: the first club championship, interclub Smith’s health began to decline rapidly, along (Newport matches and interprovincial competitions. with his game. He died of cancer in 1901, but Country Club) (However, he missed the first Canadian not before having been christened the “father Amateur Championship as one of a clutch of 1896 of golf in Canada” by Saturday Night TGC members charged with breaking the U.S. Open magazine. His protégé, George S. Lyon, Lord’s Day Observance Act, which forbade (Shinnecock Hills) emerged as Canada’s new top golfing talent. playing “noisy games” on Sunday. Their Died 1901, Toronto conviction was ultimately quashed.) He entered the first two U.S. Opens, tying for third in both 1895 and 1896. He also worked informally as TGC’s first instructor, disseminating new clubs and fashion trends while teaching fellow members at at TGC’s original Fernhill property in eastern Toronto “with kindness and readiness.”

5 Toronto Golf Club Book of Honour 6 There is little question that he had laid James Lamond Smith the foundations of Toronto’s first golf club.

Founding Member We don’t know exactly how Toronto Golf Club City banker, who arrived bearing golf clubs (1876 to 1883) founder James Lamond Smith was introduced and balls. The group played frequently on to golf, but he was the college-educated son leased farmland on the northwest side of Born of a successful advocate in Aberdeen, Kingston Road, near the Woodbine Racetrack May 14, 1822, Scotland, where the game had been played for and Smith’s summer home. They used the Glenmillan, hundreds of years. So it hardly would have Woodbine Hotel to store their clubs, along Scotland been surprising if he arrived in Canada already with red jackets not unlike those Smith could First club captain under its spell. If so, though, it seems to have have seen worn at the Aberdeen Golf Club. been decades before he found himself in a Served as president To be sure, golf was not his only pursuit – position to do much about it. Smith was a Mason, a Tory, an Anglican, a Died January 13, Smith completed his classical education in member of the St. Andrew’s Society and 1883, Toronto Aberdeen in 1840 and immediately left to president of the Granite Club. And it was settle in Upper Canada, on former Black several years after his 1883 death that TGC Loyalist farmland in what is now the town of members finally built their first real course, at Fergus, Ontario. He and Isabella Barker the Fernhill property near Coxwell Avenue and married and had three children; his middle Gerrard Street. But there is little question that name is still affixed to the street that runs he had laid the foundations of Toronto’s first through their former land. He was listed as a golf club. notary in the census of 1861, the year he left for Toronto and a job disposing of land for the Bank of Upper Canada. Smith flourished in the expanding provincial capital – he had a talent for land and real estate development – and he cultivated a community of affluent partners in business and leisure. Within a few years of his arrival in Toronto, they were playing golf, aided by a pivotal visit from Smith’s brother, a Quebec

7 Toronto Golf Club Book of Honour 8 Lyon was about more than accolades; George Seymour Lyon his life was touched by history.

Member With eight national amateur championships the game immediately, winning the Canadian (1899 to 1933) and a century as reigning Olympic champion, Amateur just two years later. George S. Lyon should scarcely need Born July 27, 1858, He learned to play at Rosedale and is closely introduction. But Lyon was about more than Richmond, Ontario associated with Lambton, where he was accolades; his life was touched by history. founding captain and helped oversee course Honourary member, He was born in Richmond, Ontario, in the construction. But Lyon was a dedicated 1933 to 1938 middle of big things. His grandfather fought in member at Toronto Golf Club, where he won President of the Royal 1812, two uncles became Ottawa mayors four club championships and six Osler Canadian Golf and another was the last man killed in a duel Trophies, participated in Canada’s first Association, 1923 in Canada. international matches against the United States and vaulted to the highest levels of golf. Three-time club Lyon’s father was a prominent hotelier before He racked up Canadian Amateur titles, champion, eight-time losing everything in an 1854 fire, uninsured – finished second at the 1905 U.S. Amateur and Canadian Amateur it may not have been a coincidence that the 1908 Canadian Open, and competed in champion, 1904 George’s career was in life and fire insurance. British Amateurs and the 1905 Open Olympic champion It brought him to Toronto in the early 1880s, in Championship at St Andrews. time to join the Queen’s Own Rifles against the Memorialized by Northwest Rebellion. The regimental history His signature achievement was the 1904 the George S. Lyon found him playing with “others of cricket Olympics in St. Louis, where he defeated U.S. Trophy for fame” after the Battle of Cut Knife. collegiate champion Chandler Egan in a rainy competition among 36-hole final. At 46, Lyon walked on his hands teams from Cricket fame? Yes – Lyon was an outstanding to the stage to accept the gold medal. Lyon Toronto-area clubs athlete. Undeterred by bad eyes, diabetes and returned to the Olympics in London in 1908 as chronic hay fever, he was a baseball star, held Member of Canada’s defending champion, but British players a national pole-vaulting record and Sports Hall of Fame boycotted at the last minute in a dispute with represented Canada internationally in cricket, and the Canadian organizers, leaving Lyon as the sole among other athletic accomplishments. He Golf Hall of Fame contestant. He declined another gold medal as discovered golf in 1896 and had the “ungainly, unearned, and golf disappeared from the Died May 11, 1938, flat swing” of a 38-year-old late to the game. Games until 2016. Toronto But he drove long and straight and mastered

9 Toronto Golf Club Book of Honour 10 Ever the relentless competitor, Kerr W.A.H. (Archie) Kerr wasn’t about respectable showings.

Member It was October 1, 1898, at Toronto Golf Club, TGC and improved quickly, becoming a (1894 to 1908) where 10 Canadian amateurs had just lost their scratch player by 1897. He won the Canadian country’s first international matches against Amateur that summer and again on home turf Born 1869, Montreal the United States. Crowding on the lawn for a at TGC in 1901. He was a stalwart of early Club champion: photograph, most of the home team looked to interclub competitions and active behind the 1896, 1897, 1901, 1907 have accepted the one-sided but respectable scenes, replacing A.W. Smith as secretary- outcome. But one struck a different pose: treasurer in 1896. Canadian Amateur William Archibald Hastings Kerr. He was one champion: 1897, 1901 In early 1908, Kerr was 38 and reigning club of just three Canadians to have won his champion. He posted second low gross in a Memorialized by 36-hole match, storming back from a four-hole club handicap outing on April 4. But days later, the Archie Kerr Cup, deficit. He sat ramrod straight, arms crossed, he was stricken by appendicitis; he died on awarded to the staring defiantly into the camera. He wasn’t April 21, leaving behind wife Marion and five winning team in about respectable showings. children in a large home on Crescent Road TGC’s yearly interclub At the time, Kerr had a claim as Canada’s best in Rosedale. matches with Royal all-round athlete. He was a nationally ranked Montreal Golf Club The club formalized its sorrow in a resolution tennis player and some considered him of sympathy to the family, and Kerr’s Died 1908, Toronto Canada’s best cricketer. He was an amateur father-in-law, Imperial Bank president D.R. sports historian. While graduating first in his Wilkie, donated a trophy for the club’s annual class at the Royal Military College in Kingston, matches against Royal Montreal. The Archie he refereed football and helped establish the Kerr Cup was first contested on October 1, Ontario Hockey Association. He later won two 1910 – 12 years to the day after that defiant national rugby championships while studying stare on the lawn at TGC. at Osgoode Hall in Toronto. (He was called to the bar despite having failed to attend the required number of lectures – no doubt due to his sporting activities.) In 1894, when he discovered golf, Kerr was a barrister and among Toronto’s elite. He joined

11 Toronto Golf Club Book of Honour 12 The arrival of golf was his life’s George Cumming clear inflection point.

Club Professional To understand how George Cumming of golf was his life’s clear inflection point. (1900 to 1950) became “the dean of Canadian golf He flourished under Campbell, and the pro professionals,” you must understand Born May 10, 1878, arranged for him to apprentice with Glasgow Willie Campbell. Bridge of Weir, club maker Andrew Forgan. Cummings was a Scotland Campbell was the world’s best match-play star pupil there, and he was eventually hired as golfer in the 1880s and an archetypal early professional at Dumfries and Galloway. It was “Dean of Canadian Scottish professional. He caddied in here in late 1899 that he played with and golf professionals” … Musselburgh, mastered the game and made a evidently made an impression on Stewart Teacher and mentor living from money matches, lessons and Gordon, Honorary Secretary of the Toronto to players, assistants club-making. He nearly won the 1887 Open Golf Club. Cummings was soon hired as TGC’s and caddies Championship. He was professional at second club professional. 1905 Canadian Open Prestwick in 1889 when he was engaged to lay Cumming (somehow, having lost the “s”) champion, four-time out the Ranfurly Castle course at Bridge of arrived at the Fernhill course in March, 1900. Canadian Open Weir, catering to Glasgow visitors. He spent His ruddy complexion and personality made a runner-up, played three seasons there, hiring young George as a quick impression – “an ineffable mixture of in a record 32 caddie before moving on to North Berwick humility and pride that both exuded and Canadian Opens and then the United States. exacted respect,” wrote historian James 1914 Canadian PGA Cummings – census and birth records are Barclay. He became known for his kindness, champion consistent about the “s” – was born on May gentlemanliness and salty, deadpan wit. He 10, 1878. (George himself would mistakenly almost never disturbed the members in their Member, Canadian later say 1879.) His father was an Irish-born clubhouse, but he wore them out on the range, Golf Hall of Fame road worker; his Scottish mother raised where a particular maple was renamed the and Ontario Golf Hall George and five siblings in a small house with “Cumming tree.” of Fame two windowed rooms in Bridge of Weir. It was He paid close attention to TGC’s flourishing Died March 26, 1950, a decidedly working-class upbringing – their female players, his “girls,” whom he Toronto neighbours included farmers, labourers and considered patient students. Ada Mackenzie, thread mill workers – and George could Sydney Pepler Mulqueen, Margaret Walsh scarcely have guessed his path. But the arrival Gouinlock, Cecil Smith Hedstrom, Maude

13 Toronto Golf Club Book of Honour 14 Smith McDougald, Kitty Cassels, Margaret Cumming was so devoted to club work that Laird McBain and Mrs. E.W. Whittington were it’s easy to forget he played at the highest among the accomplished players who won or level. His graceful swing produced straight, challenged for national titles under his true golf shots for decades. He held course tutelage, many with distinctively Cumming- records at both Fernhill and Etobicoke and modelled swings. racked up a long list of accomplishments after arriving in Canada. He also churned out talented assistant professionals: “George’s boys.” They included His 1905 season was one for the ages. After future Canadian Open champions Charles winning the second Canadian Open, held at Murray, Albert Murray and Karl Keffer, TGC, he travelled to Massachusetts to Hamilton professionals Dick Borthwick and challenge for the U.S. Open. He finished ninth, Nicol Thompson, and future TGC pro John then won a 36-hole tournament nearby the Hunt, who started as a 10-year-old caddie and next day. It cannot have been coincidental that literally learned at Cumming’s knee, placing the two courses were Myopia Hunt Club and tees for students on the range after Cumming The Country Club at Brookline – his old could no longer kneel. Nicol’s brother Stanley, mentor Campbell, recently claimed by cancer, also a TGC caddie, went on to become had done significant design work at both while Canada’s most celebrated course architect. professional there. Like many of George’s boys, the Thompsons Cumming went on to win the Canadian PGA lived within spitting distance of the course – championship in 1914. He was also deadly in just as Cumming had in Scotland. match play, like his mentor. Cumming Cumming played a significant role in partnered with Royal Montreal pro Tom Smith enhancing the Fernhill course and in choosing in an unexpected best-ball defeat of British pro George Cumming’s graceful swing produced straight, true Top: He could be gruff, but Above: Cumming, right, golf shots for decades. He won the 1905 Canadian Open, Cumming’s lessons were with six “George’s boys” the club’s new Mississauga land, and after the Harry Vardon and partner in 1900. Thirteen the 1914 Canadian PGA and countless other events. marked by wit. in 1912. First World War, he formed a design years later, he and Lambton professional Percy partnership with the Thompsons. His name is Barrett nearly upset Vardon and Ted Ray, who associated with Scarboro, Brantford, Summit, were touring North America. Cumming also After the move to Etobicoke, Cumming and declined. He died in early 1950, days after Mississaugua, Toronto Hunt, Oshawa and made a nearly unbeatable team with Toronto his wife, Therese, occupied the club-owned marking half a century on the job. He was other significant Ontario routings. Ultimately, member George S. Lyon. They raised money house near the new 13th green. They spent buried in Park Lawn Cemetery, seven he and Nicol left the business to Stanley so for the Red Cross in sweeping a series of First many winters in Kingston, Jamaica, where kilometres from TGC, and was succeeded as they could apply themselves fully to their jobs World War matches, no doubt with the George gave lessons at the Liguanea Club. He professional by son Lou, a former assistant as professionals. complicity of TGC Honorary President Colonel suffered a stroke in the late 1940s but – “George’s boy” in every way. Willie G.A. Sweny, the organization’s chair. continued to play and teach even as his health Campbell would have been proud.

15 Toronto Golf Club Book of Honour 16 Hunter is remembered as Charles Hunter a promoter and builder.

Member Charles Hunter played golf avidly and well, but Golf Club, around Fort Mississauga, which (1883 to 1911) he is remembered as a promoter and builder. hosted interprovincial matches with Quebec in 1883. Some of their original design remains Born 1830, Scotland Hunter was born in England in cloudy intact – as does Hunter’s stately home, across circumstances. But like many early TGC Club captain, 1889 the street from today’s par-3 fourth hole. members, he immigrated to Canada and made Non-resident his mark in the financial industry. He was a Later, on a course laid out at Fort George, member, 1912 to 1922 29-year-old insurance agent when he married Hunter organized the Niagara International – Emily Joanna Lawder, the daughter of a one of the first tournaments anywhere billed Promoter of golf at county judge, in St. Catharines, Ontario, in as open to amateurs of all nations. (The TGC and Niagara-on- 1876. He would rise to become chief agent for tournament would be held in sight of “both the the-Lake, Ontario Standard Life Assurance in Toronto. national flags” of Canada and the United Founding member States, Hunter crowed in Athletic Life Hunter was not quite among the very first of the Royal magazine in early 1895.) The inaugural event’s TGC golfers, but he had joined them by 1881, Canadian Golf field included TGC’s A.W. Smith (Canada’s when he helped to organize an early interclub Association best player at the time) and and notable match with Brantford. He formally joined in Niagara-born golf course designer Charles Died February 6, 1883 and was a charter member at Blair Macdonald. But Fort George was 1922, Guelph, Ontario incorporation in 1894. eventually commandeered as a historic site He played in many interprovincial and and this course was lost. interclub matches off scratch. In 1896, The Described as “kind, genial and witty,” Hunter Globe described him as “a strong player, retired in Niagara, growing figs, tending his remarkable for his driving and long mashie garden and working with the historical society. shots” – still strong enough to enter the 1898 Years later, a young neighbour recalled Canadian Amateur at TGC. frequently seeing him canoeing in Lake His summer home was in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario with his wife, “wielding a where he promoted Canadian golf with equal double-ended paddle and trailing a line or zeal. In the late 1870s, he and fellow enthusiast two.” Presumably, they also played some golf. J. Geale Dickson laid out Niagara-on-the-Lake

17 Toronto Golf Club Book of Honour 18 The tradition of leadership … Walter Gibson Pringle Cassels reaches long and runs deep.

Founding Member The bustle of Woodbine and Gerrard reveals Toronto’s east end and hosted the 1894 (1876) little hint of the Toronto Golf Club’s old meeting that formalized TGC as one of North stomping grounds. The first clue is the bowl America’s earliest and most historic clubs. As Born August 14, occupied by a small playground at the end of a its first postincorporation president and club 1845, Quebec, side street – the little dale was a formidable captain, he granted members free use of his Lower Canada carry hazard on one version of the club’s sixth adjacent land and later gifted them two Club captain, hole. The park’s name is what gives it away: parcels. Appreciation was palpable: For years 1894 to 1908 the Cassels Avenue Playground, a historic to come, a hole on the adjacent property was reminder of the man who made TGC’s first nicknamed “Cassels.” The extra land allowed President, 18-hole course possible. for a proper 18-hole course that proved 1894 to 1909 capable of hosting significant events, such as Walter G.P. Cassels was born in Quebec, one Provided land to the 1898 international matches against the of 14 children of a Scottish-born banker and complete TGC’s first United States. And its sale eventually businessman who immigrated to Canada in 18-hole course facilitated the club’s move to its current 1837. He studied at the University of Toronto location in Etobicoke. Died March 1, 1923, and was one of three brothers to become Ottawa prominent lawyers in the growing city. He Land was not his only legacy. Walter’s son, became a partner at Blake, Kerr and Boyd in R.C.H. (Bertie) Cassels, was a highly 1870, was named Queen’s Counsel in 1883 and competitive player who became captain in had a distinguished career specializing in 1910 and later ascended to two terms as club intellectual property. His career culminated in president, capping 60 years of membership. his 1908 appointment as judge of the As Jack Batten concluded in his 1976 club Exchequer Court of Canada (a predecessor of history, “The tradition of leadership … reaches today’s Federal Court), which led to long and runs deep” at TGC. knighthood in 1917. Cassels was not a highly talented golfer, consistently holding a handicap between 16 and 18, but he was enthusiastic. He was among the earliest pioneers of the club in

19 Toronto Golf Club Book of Honour 20 The Englishman “never leaves an interesting piece Harry Colt of ground untouched.”

Golf Course Architect Credit serendipity or the calculation of County Sligo, Royal Portrush and Muirfield. (1911 to 1913) bankers, but the Toronto Golf Club could Colt stepped off the train in Toronto on March hardly have chosen a better moment, or man, Born 1869, London, 26, 1911. For $750, he staked out tees, bunkers to build a new course. England and greens, and produced two linen-backed As growth began to pressure their Fernhill copies of a detailed plan for a course that Junior partner with layout, members decided to sell. They quickly professional George Cumming pronounced associates Charles found a new home, 252 acres on the “first-class,” according to minutes. A third nine Alison and Alister Etobicoke Creek, and approved the purchase awaited more land. MacKenzie in a firm in January, 1911. that eventually Members were playing the new course by worked on more It was excellent timing. That very year is September, 1912, and Colt returned in 1913 to than 300 courses generally seen as the beginning of the Golden evaluate. With reams of notes on bunker worldwide Age in golf-course design. Aided by economic improvements and characteristic modesty, he expansion, modern equipment and mature reported that it had turned out “in my opinion Lent his name to thinking, architects began to reach for new very well indeed.” two trophies at TGC: heights in strategy and artistry. TGC chose the the Colt Cup (for a In 2006, a more lavish tribute was paid by best available: Englishman Henry Shapland spring Stableford architect Martin Hawtree, hired to refresh the (Harry) Colt. event) and the Colt 96-year-old course. He found “a wonderful Trophy (for interclub Colt was a Cambridge man and lawyer who example of Colt’s experience, flair and matches with had joined the Royal & Ancient at St Andrews, ingenuity. He never leaves an interesting piece Hamilton GC, which worked as club secretary at Sunningdale and of ground untouched, and the layout has a hired Colt after become engrossed by architecture. By 1911, he majestic sweep through the site, never his Toronto work) had already led design or redesign efforts at appearing forced or contrived, playing to one several top English courses. Toronto marked natural green site after another … There is Died November 21, his first overseas foray in what would become nothing that one would wish to alter here.” 1951, East Hendred, a global practice – he later stamped his name England on routings, redesigns and original commissions for such timeless layouts as Pine Valley, Royal Liverpool, Royal County Down,

21 Toronto Golf Club Book of Honour 22 A modest player himself, Bethune encouraged Robert Henry Bethune more-talented golfers to join the club.

Founding Member Robert Bethune was “a man of few words, Bethune joined the Toronto Golf Club founders (1876) clear insight and correct judgment,” a eulogist with his brother George and became its wrote – a sentiment that clearly applied to his second captain in 1880, after James Lamond Born May 5, 1836, efforts in both banking and golf. Smith. Although his own golfing talents were Coburg, Ontario relatively modest, he played important roles He was born into a prominent Canadian Club captain, behind the scenes, organizing an interclub family. His father was an Anglican priest, his 1880 to 1888 match against Brantford in 1881 and facilitating grandfather founded Montreal’s first an infusion of playing talent by recruiting Died March 27, 1895, Presbyterian Church and if he had lived long newly transferred bank employees to TGC. Toronto enough, he would have found himself a great uncle to surgeon Norman Bethune and a He saw the club’s incorporation in 1894, but great-great uncle to actor Christopher Plummer. did not live to see the following summer. After he was felled at 58 by a quick succession of Like many early members of the Toronto Golf stroke, pneumonia and brain hemorrhage in Club, Bethune was a banker. After schooling at the spring of 1895, his death was noted widely Upper Canada College, he worked his way up in the North American press. “He promoted by through branches of the Bank of Montreal and sound and consistent … principles the best the Quebec Bank. In 1871, he became cashier interests of the institution which he served so (general manager) of the new Dominion Bank loyally and successfully,” said the Journal of in Toronto, which he slowly and methodically the Canadian Bankers’ Association – a built into an Ontario powerhouse. sentiment no doubt shared by his friends and Biographers have described his personality as colleagues at the Toronto Golf Club. “almost a caricature of the faceless banker.” His own family acknowledged that he was “bookish.” But as he led the Dominion Bank to record dividends, he accumulated a fistful of directorships and board positions and fell in with other well-to-do lovers of “innocent and healthful recreation,” including cricket, yachting, curling and golf.

23 Toronto Golf Club Book of Honour 24 His influence rose in the club as he Edmund Boyd Osler became one of Toronto’s richest men.

Founding Member Biographies of Edmund Boyd Osler are Osler’s first wife was Isabella Lamond Smith, (1876) characterized by works like “and” and “then,” daughter of TGC founder James Lamond so numerous were his contributions to Smith, whom he had met in banking. He was a Born November 20, Canadian business and politics. But his service junior but enthusiastic member of his 1845, Bond Head, to the Toronto Golf Club was far more than father-in-law’s early golf expeditions, and his Upper Canada a footnote. club influence rose as he became one of Club captain, Toronto’s richest men. He was club captain in His father was a Royal Navy lieutenant whose 1892 to 1893 1892 and 1893, a founding member of the second career brought him to Canada as a incorporated club in 1894 and later became Honourary president, pioneer clergyman. Young Edmund attended Honorary President. He carried a middling 1918 to 1924 grammar school in Dundas, Ontario, the handicap and played only sporadically in club youngest of four brothers who went on to Memorialized by the events, but he donated a men’s match-play distinguished careers: One founded a famous Osler Trophy (men’s trophy that still bears his name today. Toronto law firm. Another was a prominent individual match play judge. A third founded the Johns Hopkins Isabella died in 1871. Osler remarried and had with full handicap) School of Medicine and inaugurated the six children with Anne Farquharson Cochran Died August 4, 1924, modern medical residency system. of Aberdeen, a Smith relative whom he met on Toronto a trip to Scotland. He was knighted in 1912. Edmund rose to this high bar. He joined the After his death at 79 in 1924, he had outlived Bank of Upper Canada, then formed his own two wives and most of his accomplished brokerage and investing firm. By the 1880s, he family. His 13-acre Rosedale estate was given was financing railways and investing in Western to the city – it lives on as Craigleigh Gardens, Canadian land. He became a CPR director and a quiet oasis with ornamental gates hinting at president of the Toronto Board of Trade and the the accomplishments of one of TGC’s Dominion Bank. He was elected to the House of founding members. Commons in 1896 and held Toronto West’s seat for two decades. He was a founder of the Royal Ontario Museum, a trustee of the Hospital for Sick Children and a major contributor to the wartime Canadian Patriotic Fund.

25 Toronto Golf Club Book of Honour 26 Mrs. Sweny lived the principle of duty more Alice Roy Sweny fiercely than any trophy can convey.

Ladies’ President The Toronto Golf Club marks her duty, purpose and personality,” according to one tribute. The (1894 to 1903) and organizational talents with a trophy for committee also instigated a “strength list” to the yearly ladies club champion. But Mrs. G.A. recruit a talented female playing membership, Born 1855, West Sweny lived the principle of duty more fiercely which became a club hallmark. Troy, New York than any cup can convey. In 1903, Mrs. Sweny retired after eight years in Vice-president, She was born Alice Roy in West Troy, New the chair, but she contributed committee work Ladies’ Golf York, in 1855, youngest of four daughters to into the 1910s. During the First World War, she Association (of prosperous miller James Roy. She married and the colonel (now club president) stepped Canada), 1900 retired British Army Colonel George Augustus away to devote themselves to the Canadian Memorialized Sweny in 1885 and immigrated to Canada. Col. Red Cross. Their deaths in 1918 and 1921 were by the Mrs. G.A. Sweny was 17 years her senior, a veteran of hastened by their “unremitting” wartime Sweny Trophy Abyssinia and India and a man of leisure and labours, their older son, William Frederick, told means. The Swenys immediately joined The New York Times in 1925. Died December 28, Toronto’s elites and George became a 1921, Toronto The Times article reveals the full depth of Mrs. founding TGC member in 1894. Need Photo Sweny’s dutifulness. Her stepson challenged He was clearly a progressive for his time, her estate taxes because she was legally not pushing for a female membership. Mrs. Sweny his mother – but his aunt. Alice’s older sister, became the lady associates’ first president and Mary, was the colonel’s first wife, but she had quickly took charge of their interests, despite died while he was still in active service. Alice her own modest golfing résumé. She hosted had taken charge of her two young nephews meetings at her home, “Rohallion,” at Bloor and eventually married George. “There can be and St. George. (The site is now occupied by no higher ideal than to become a mother to my the University of Toronto’s Jackman sister’s two boys and to make their home what Humanities Institute.) Her committee no other woman in the world could make it,” advocated for ladies’ privileges, oversaw early she explained to her bishop. Their union was interprovincial matches, instigated their club forbidden in England, but legal in Canada. And championship and navigated club rules on so the Swenys built a new life in Toronto, with dress, decorum and course access “with tact TGC a prime beneficiary.

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29 Toronto Golf Club Book of Honour 30 Giamus, sectis mo quia aut volupta essedia epelitatquas Ada MacKenzie em qui conserio tende laccuptas si temolor volorae.

31 Toronto Golf Club Book of Honour 32 Giamus, sectis mo quia aut volupta essedia epelitatquas Fred Armitage em qui conserio tende laccuptas si temolor volorae.

33 Toronto Golf Club Book of Honour 34 Giamus, sectis mo quia aut volupta essedia epelitatquas Karl Keffer em qui conserio tende laccuptas si temolor volorae.

35 Toronto Golf Club Book of Honour 36 Giamus, sectis mo quia aut volupta essedia epelitatquas WA Lang ton em qui conserio tende laccuptas si temolor volorae.

37 Toronto Golf Club Book of Honour 38 Giamus, sectis mo quia aut volupta essedia epelitatquas WJ Sansom em qui conserio tende laccuptas si temolor volorae.

39 Toronto Golf Club Book of Honour 40 Giamus, sectis mo quia aut volupta essedia epelitatquas RCH Cassels em qui conserio tende laccuptas si temolor volorae.

41 Toronto Golf Club Book of Honour 42 Giamus, sectis mo quia aut volupta essedia epelitatquas Arthur Smith em qui conserio tende laccuptas si temolor volorae.

43 Toronto Golf Club Book of Honour 44 Giamus, sectis mo quia aut volupta essedia epelitatquas Sydney Mulqueen em qui conserio tende laccuptas si temolor volorae.

45 Toronto Golf Club Book of Honour 46 Giamus, sectis mo quia aut volupta essedia epelitatquas Margaretw Gouinlock em qui conserio tende laccuptas si temolor volorae.

47 Toronto Golf Club Book of Honour 48 Giamus, sectis mo quia aut volupta essedia epelitatquas Col GA Sweny em qui conserio tende laccuptas si temolor volorae.

49 Toronto Golf Club Book of Honour 50 Giamus, sectis mo quia aut volupta essedia epelitatquas Sandy Somerville em qui conserio tende laccuptas si temolor volorae.

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