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Special Events:
- 1976 Montreal Olympics; assisted in Poly Clinic
- 1978 British Commonwealth Games in Edmonton
- 1983 World University Games in Edmonton

Catholic Church - Our Lady of Perpetual Help:
Active member and assists in all aspects of the church's activities and became a Eucharistic Minister.
Visits the hospital (sick and extended care) every Saturday.

Scouting - East Trail/Warfield Division:
First Aid Leader and attended the following jamborees volunteering her services: - 1979 BC and Yukon, Douglas Lake, BC
- 1981 Canadian National, Kananaskis Country (Alberta)
- 1983 BC and Yukon, Sooke, BC - 1987 BC and Yukon, Sooke, BC

Red Cross:
Joined the Red Cross when she was 18 years old and is still an active member. Helped with disaster - Trail Flood in 1948.
Assisted in food handling - Trail Creek Flood.
As a result of this, Mrs. Kumorek was sent to Arnprior College in Hull, Quebec to take civil defense training in disasters. Taught home nursing for homemakers.
Recognition for Long Standing and Generous Contributions to the Community:
Trail Citizen of the Year - 1975.
Home of Champions - Builder of First Aid - 1981.
Commemorative Medal - 125th Anniversary of Canadian Confederation - 1992. Minor Hockey - plaque for long-time service.

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Roy Stone

Roy Stone was elected to the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame in March 1974.

He is an Honorary member of the BC Curling Association and was inducted into the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame in 1984 as an Athlete/Builder in Curling.

Roy has also won 7 BC Curling Championship titles as a member of his brother's (Reg Stone) curling rinks.

1978-79 B.C. Senior-Seniors Champions
Roy Stone, Reg Stone, John Cameron, John Jarret

1980 B.C. Senior-Seniors Champions
Roy Stone, Reg Stone, John Cameron, Art Defoe

1981 B.C. Senior-Seniors Champions
Roy Stone, Reg Stone, John Cameron, Bob Salmond

Roy is also an active golf player and golf course designer.

Ryan Huska

Ryan Huska was born in Cranbrook in 1975 and attended elementary and secondary schools in Trail.  He excelled in minor hockey and played for the Kamloops Blazers in the Western Junior Hockey League from 1991 to 1995, winning three Memorial Cups.  He was drafted by the Chicago Black Hawks and played five seasons in the American Hockey League.

He was the Assistant Coach of the Kelowna Rockets from 2002 to 2007 and Head Coach from 2008 to 2014.  He was an Assistant Coach with Team Canada’s World Junior Hockey team in 2011 and 2012.  In 2014, he became the Head Coach of the Adirondack Flames of the American Hockey League, a farm team of the Calgary Flames.

Selwyn G. Blaylock

Selwyn G. Blaylock began work with the Canadian Smelting Works as an assayer at Trail in 1898 and worked his way to becoming the President and Managing Director of the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada Limited.

His many accomplishments have been recognized by the mining and metallurgical professions.

In 1924, he received the McCharles Award for outstanding work in Canadian metallurgy from the University of Toronto.

In 1928, he received the James Douglas Medal for metallurgy given by the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgy for distinguished achievement in non-ferrous metallurgy.

In 1935, he received the International Nickel Company's Platinum Medal for outstanding work in Mining and Smelting.

In 1940, he received the Gold Medal of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy of Great Britain, one of the highest awards in the mining world.

In 1944, he was granted an honorary membership in the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, one of the highest honors it is within the Institute to bestow, in recognition of his eminent standing as a metallurgist, engineer, and administrator of a mining and metallurgical enterprise.

Selwyn died in 1945.

Seth Martin

Seth Martin was inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame on May 25th, 1988.

Born in Rossland, BC, Seth played his minor hockey in his home town and then went to tend net for the Lethbridge Native Sons for three years in the early 1950's. Seth then returned to the Kootenays where he starred from 1954-1963 with the Trail Smoke Eaters.

He was playing coach for the Rossland Warriors from 1964-1966.

The 1967-68 season saw Seth playing for the St. Louis Blues, sharing the goal-tending duties with Glenn Hall.

Some of Seth's highlights are as follows:

1952: Played in the Western Canada Junior finals with Lethbridge Native Sons

1960: Went to the Allen Cup finals with the Trail Smoke Eaters only to lose to the Chatham Maroons.

1961: Performed well in leading the Smoke Eaters to the World Hockey Championships in Geneva, Switzerland and a member of the 1962 Allan Cup champion Smoke Eaters as they defeated the Montreal Olympics.

1963: Was a member of the Trail Smoke Eaters who finished fourth in the World Championship.

1964: played for the Father Bauer's National team which finished fourth in the World Championships.

1965: Went with the Nelson Maple Leafs (coached by Bobby Kromm) to the Allen Cup final, losing out to Sherbrooke, Quebec.

1966-67: played in the World Championships both years as a member of Father Bauer's Canadian Championship team.

1967-68: member of the St. Louis Blues (NHL), coached by Scotty Bowman. The Blues made it to the Stanley Cup final, losing out to the Montreal Canadiens.

1969-70: Helped Spokane Jets win the Allan Cup with a series win over the Orillia Terriers.

Seth finished out his career in the years of 1968-71 playing goal with the Smoke Eaters and Spokane Jets.

Seth Martin's goaltending exploits are legendary in amateur hockey circles, having toured Europe playing exhibition and regular games. He was known as "Mr. Goalie" for his stellar style of goaltending.

Speed Moynes

DOUGALD SINCLAIR “SPEED” MOYNES
“Speed” Moynes was born in Ontario in 1892.

Speed gained his nickname as being considered one of the fastest men on the ice back in the days when the hockey arena still had square corners. He led the Melville Millionaires Hockey Club to victory for the Allen Cup in 1915, which at that time was a challenge trophy. In 1979, the Saskatchewan Hall of Fame inducted the Melville Club and Speed, at 87 years of age, accepted the honour.

From there, he caught the eye of Lester and Frank Patrick and was called to the Pacific League to play for the Vancouver Millionaires. The Patrick connection and friendship lasted for their lifetimes. Speed played 2 years for Vancouver and they narrowly missed winning the Stanley Cup while playing in Chicago.

Speed’s hockey career came to a halt when he went overseas in World War I, returning late in 1919. He then played in the semi-pro Prairie League. In 1924, he moved to Trail and played with the Trail Smoke Eaters until 1931. Speed was very proud that he was instrumental in getting the Trail Club to instigate injury health coverage and wage compensation for time lost. Up to this time, if a player was injured, he received no assistance.

Speed coached many minor hockey teams in the midget and juvenile levels. His auto firm sponsored the midget team known as the Moynes Pontiacs. Speed was the honourary Manager of this team, which played for many years. Speed was well known to the Smoke Eater players, as he would donate a ton of coal for every hat trick and for the player getting the winning goal in the playoffs.

Hockey was a major part of Speed’s life and he contributed significantly to the sport in Trail.
Speed passed away in 1984.

Stanley Angus

Stanley Angus was born in Vancouver on May 13, 1903. Stan was a Champion even before he moved to Trail. He played with Ex King George Team when they won the Provincial Rugby title, and with the Ex King George Hockey Team when they won the Vancouver Championships in 1923/24, and also when they won the Provincial title in 1924/25. Stan?s international championship was in sculling, when he was one of the most-medal winning oarsmen on the Pacific Coast, winning 11 titles as a member of the Vancouver Rowing Club.  Stan moved to Trail in 1926.

For many years, Stan was associated with the Trail Figure Skating Club where he was on the Executive, was a certified Judge of the Canadian Figure Skating Association and worked on many carnival committees from the early 1940s. In 1949, Stan, with a partner, Connie Shutek, won the waltz and tango in the Silver Dance Event at the Western Canadian Champsionships.

In 1951, Stan, and his daughter Paddy, competed in the Silver Dance Competition at the Canadian Championships held in Vancouver. They were the first father/daughter team to compete in the Canadians, then or since.

In the fall of 1954, Stan was shot in the calf of his right leg in a hunting accident near Grand Forks, BC. He was told that he would walk with canes for the rest of his life, so to help with the rehab, Stan took up golf, using clubs as canes. In 1958, Stan was runnerup in the BC Senior?s Golf and in 1959, he was the BC Senior's Champion.

Stan passed away in 1986.

Steve McCarthy

Steve is also one of our gifted hockey players currently in the NHL. Steve was born and raised in Trail, playing Minor Hockey here before becoming a member of the Trail Junior Smoke Eaters of the BC Hockey League in 1996. Following Trail, he joined the Edmonton Ice, now the Kootenay Ice. While with Edmonton, Steve participated in the 1997 World Under 17 Tournament, as well as becoming a Gold Medalist with Canada's Under 18 Team at the 1998 Foreign Nation Under 18 Tournament and is a two-time member of Canada's World Junior Team in 2000 and 2001.

Steve was drafted 23rd overall by the Chicago Balckhawks in the 1999 NHL Entry Draft. He began his NHL career with the Blackhawks in the 2001/02 season, but saw limited duty in 2003/04 due to injury.

In September, Steve was traded to his beloved Canucks, where he has started the season as the team's fifth defenceman.

Steven Tambellini

After a brilliant minor hockey career in Trail, Steve Tambellini graduated to major junior ranks with Lethbridge in the Western Hockey League, where he tallied 97 points in 1975-76 en route to being named the WHL's Rookie of the Year.

In 1978, he was drafted in the first round by the New York Islanders of the NHL. He played three years for the Islanders before he moved to the Colorado Rockies, which then became the New Jersey Devils.

Then he joined the Calgary Flames and was signed by the Vancouver Canucks as a free agent in 1985.

In 553 NHL games, Tambellini scored 160 goals and 210 points.

In 1981, Steve was a member of the Canadian National Team.

Steve held the title of Senior Vice President of Hockey Operations with the Vancouver Canucks from 1997.  In 1998, he became Vice President of Player Personnel with the team.  He became the Assistant General Manager in 2008.

In 2004, Steve was inducted into the BC Hockey Hall of Fame.

He currently holds the position of General Manager for the Edmonton Oilers.

Terry Bublitz

Terry has been coaching curling for approximately 25 years at the local, provincial and national level and has competed at the provincial level for many years. He was a member of the 1971 Selkirk College Provincial Champions and began his coaching success with the 1982 and 1987 BC High School Provincial Champions and coached Team BC at the 1987 Canada Games.

Still with Youth Curling, he coached the 2004 Girls High School Curling Champions from J.L. Crowe Secondary School and was coach of the 2003 BC Provincial junior Ladies Curling Champions of the Trail Curling Club.

With the men, he has coached Team BC at the 2003 Brier in Halifax and returned to the Brier in 2005 with the Dean Horning Rink of the Trail Curling Club.

In 2002, he was selected as Trail's Sportsman of the Year.

Terry Hughes

Terry is recognized on the Home of Champions Monument for his dedication to, the fostering of, and his personal achievements, in Little League Baseball.

Terry started his volunteer baseball career in 1961 when the eldest of his four sons joined his first Little League team. He began as an Executive member for the Trail Little League, and in 1969 was appointed District No. 8 Administrator, a position he held until his retirement in the fall of 2001.

Over the years, Trail has hosted numerous local, district, provincial and national Little League tournaments, and Terry always worked tirelessly to organize, promote and support these events. His dedication, expertise, leadership skills and quiet mentoring, helped build the volunteer program that has seen Little League Baseball flourish in the Trail area, and throughout the Kootenays. Those men and women who volunteer their time and effort to the Little League Program throughout the last 40 years have learned from the best. His input at the Provincial, National and International Baseball Conferences will be sorely missed, as Terry Hughes is held in the highest regard by his fellow volunteers.

Terry was a modest man and sought no recognition for his service to Little League over the years. However, it was certainly given to him, as he was elected to the Canadian Board of Directors for Little League Canada, but had to give up his seat due to ill health. Just prior to his passing, he was awarded the Meritorious Award for Volunteer Service to support and perpetuate the ideas of Little League Baseball during the International Little League Congress in Ottawa in April 2001. Terry was the longest servicing Little League Baseball Administrator in Canada.

Terry Jones

Terry has spent nearly three decades building the Beaver Valley Nitehawks into one of the most successful Junior B hockey teams in all of Western Canada.  His track record speaks for itself with the number of teams he has built into championship caliber clubs.  The team has experienced consistent success since Terry joined the organization in 1996.

His positions of Assistant Coach, Head Coach and General Manager had a strong influence over all aspects of the team.  Under Terry's direction, the Nitehawks have won eight KIJHL chamionships, four Cyclone Taylor Cups and have medaled three times at the Keystone Cup Championships.  In November 2018, Terry celebrated his 1000th win with the Nitehawks.

Besides promoting the sport of hockey with the Nitehawks, Terry has tirelessly given his time to younger hockey players wishing to improve their skills.  He has led several summer hockey camps in both the Beaver Valley and Trail.  He also acts as General Manager of the local Major Midget hockey team.

Terry was inducted in 2019.

Terry Yuris

Terry's career as a fighter began in the early seventies, boxing for the Trail Boxing Club under trainers Bill Watson Sr., Joe Haywood, and Val Cirotto.  He went on to win bronze and silver gloves in his amateur career and finished as first runner up in Golden Gloves championship held in Nelson.  This was only the beginning for Terry.

He went on to earn black belt in shukokai karate, Chinese karate and a green belt in jiu jitsu, training uner the watchful eye of Karate pioneer, Tom Smiley.  Terry won many semi-contact karate tournaments across Caanda and the United States.  Full contact karate would come later, taking Terry all across the Pacific Northwest and eventually leading him back to kickboxing which presented international opportunities to showcase his skills and represented Canada in several Canada vs. USA tournaments held in Alberta during this time.

Terry competed in the WKA (World Karate Association) championship tournaments across North America, leading to a middleweight 12 man showdown that saw him victorious over world ranked Mike McGuire and vaulted Terry to number one in North America.  He was consistently ranked in the top ten fighters in the world for the remainder of his career and was the top ranked Canadian fighter in the world for almost a decade, reaching the rank of #1 in the world for a period of time.  Fighting in Europe and Japan, Terry traveled the world.  During this time, Terry also ran a karate school and fitness centre in Vancouver.

An unfortuante knee injury cut his career short at the age of 24, but he continued on to support the sport he loved by teaching karate, refereeing and instructing self-defense.  At one point, he even trained some of our local hockey heroes, as well.  Since then, Terry has called Trail his home and raised his family here giving back to the city that has given so much to him.

Thea Culley

Thea Culley began her field hockey career as a member of the Rossland Secondary School Field Hockey Team.  Following her graduation, she attended the University of Victoria and continued her career there.  From 2004 to 2006, she was a CIS tournament all-star and a member of the Junior National Field Hockey Team.  She joined Canada's National Team in 2006.

As a member of the National Team, Thea has represented the country in the Pan-American Games and FIH Championships, as well as other numerous international field hockey series.  She has competed in many National Championships, as well as the CIS National Championships.

Thea has excelled in her sport at every level of competition and is one of Canada's premier field hockey players. 

Theo "Frenchy" D'Amour

In 1947, Theo "Frenchy" D'Amour and his rink won BC Curling Championships. Other members were Jim Mark, Fred Wendel, and Bob McGhie.

They went on to the Canadian Curling Championships that year and placed second.

The following year in 1948, the rink won both the B.C. and Canadian Curling Championships. This rink was the first one from B.C. to win the Canadian Championships.

In 1980, the rink was inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame as an Honoured team.

In 1949, Frenchy was a member of the team winning the Car Spiel in Edmonton (Frenchy, John Cameron, Fred Wendel, and Fred Tinglin).

In 1962, Frenchy was a member of the Reg Stone Rink (Reg and Roy Stone, Frenchy, Harvey McKay) which won the BC Curling Championships.

Theresa Hanson

Theresa Hanson (nee Hanlon) was born in Trail and developed a love of basketball from her father, Bill, at an early age.  Her talent earned her a scholarship to the Lewis and Clark University in Lewiston, Idaho.  While there, she led her team in scoring in the 1984-85 and 1985-86 seasons.  Following graduation, she moved to Vancouver to begin a career in financial planning, eventually moving into sports administration.

She joined the University of BC as the Associate Director of Athletics in 2005.  Since then, she has directed BC varsity sports which has become one of the top ranked programs in Canada in terms of championships won.

In 2009, she attended the University Games in Serbia as a member of Canada's mission staff.  In 2013, she was appointed the Chef de Mission for Canada at the Univeristy Games in Kazan, Russia.  In this capacity, she was the spokesperson for the Canadian contingent and responsible for safeguarding the interests of Canadian athletes, coaches and officials.

Theresa has played a major role in the development of Canadian university sport and Canada's participation in international university sport.

Theresa resides in Vancovuer with her husband Kevin and her daughter Jessica.

Theresa Lenardon

In August 1980, Theresa Lenardon won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the Pan-American Games.

In July 1980, she placed first in the heptathlon at the Canadian Junior Championships and Pan-Am trials, subsequently being named to the 1980 Canadian National Team that was to compete at the Pan-Am Games.

In June 1980, Theresa won the bronze medal in the pentathlon at the Canadian Open Championships.

In 1978, she won the pentathlon at the B.C. and Canadian Junior Championships.

At Canadian Summer Games in 1977, Theresa won the gold medal in the broad jump.

Theresa Lenardon (centre)

Thomas D'Aquino

Thomas D'Aquino was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Business Council on National Issues, an organization of 150 Chief Executives of major enterprises in Canada. He has held this position since 1981.

Thomas was educated at the Universities of British Columbia, Queen's and London, holds BA, LL.B and LL.M degrees and an Honourary Degree of Doctor of Laws from Queen's University.

From 1962 to 1972, he was a Special Assistant to Prime Minister Trudeau, has managed his own consulting firm, has been a Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa and is acknowledged as one of the private sector architects of the Canada/U.S. Free Trade Agreement.

Thomas has been referred to as one of Canada's foremost policy strategists and one of the country's most effective Ambassadors abroad.

Mr. D'Aquino resides in Ottawa.

Tim Dunlap

Tim grew up in Trail and began training in Shotokan Karate in 1980 in Trail under the coaching of Don McLachlan. In 1982, at the age of 16, he began cometing at internatinoal karate events in Spokane, Washington. He began competing in the Men's Black Belt Diviion in 1986, achieving a Second Degree Black Belt in 1988 while continuing to compete at local and international events.

In 1983, he relocated to Alberta as an RCMP Officer and in 1987, competed in the World Police Fire Games in Calgary, winning the Gold Medal, a first for canada.

In the 1999 Games in Sweden, he won a Bronze Medal. In 2000, he was crowned the Alberta Provincial Black Belt Champion. He retired from tournament competition that year.

Tim has also taught Karate since 1986 and was named Vice Chairman of the Seihoku-Ryu International Karate Organization in 2000 and earned a National Tournament Judging Certificate in 2004.

Tim resides in Airdrie, Alberta.