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4 unusual facts about Broadview


Broadview, Illinois

Lee Stange, professional baseball player who grew up in Broadview.

Broadview, Saskatchewan

John Hall Archer was born 1914 near Broadview, becoming the first president of the University of Regina and provincial archivist.

Damian Squire

Squire was a Port Adelaide Magpies supporter when he was growing up in the inner-northern Adelaide suburb of Broadview but due to where he lived and played his junior football with the Broadview Tigers and Greenacres Dragons in the heart of North Adelaide's metropolitan zone (only 10 minutes from North's home Prospect Oval), he ended up playing for the Roosters in the SANFL.

Trial of Louis Riel

The jurors were Francis Cosgrave - foreman - Whitewood, Edwin J. Brooks of Indian Head, Henry J. Painter of Broadview, Walter Merryfield of Whitewood, Peel Deane of Broadview and Edwin Eratt of Moose Jaw.


Brecksville, Ohio

PASL Soccer player Steve Gillespie is from Brecksville and graduated from Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School

Carkeek

Carkeek Park, 216-acre (87.1 ha) park located in the Broadview neighborhood of Seattle, Washington

Is Anybody Home?

Scenes of the band playing were filmed in the basement of the Eastminster United Church on Danforth Ave. east of Broadview Ave. in the Riverdale neighborhood of Toronto.

Norman Inkster

Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, but spending nearly all of his early years in Broadview, Saskatchewan, where his father, Harold, was a Master mechanic with the Canadian Pacific Railway and his mother, Martha, was a housewife, he was educated at the University of New Brunswick, where he studied sociology and psychology.

Peter Barris

Barris is currently on the Board of Directors of eight companies; Broadview Networks Holdings, Inc., Echo Global Logistics, Inc., Groupon, Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc., InnerWorkings, Inc., Jobfox, Inc., MediaBank, SnagFilms and Vonage Holdings Corp.


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