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unusual facts about Hanlan's Point Stadium


Geordie Campbell

He was selected to play for the Toronto and District Football Association All-Stars against the Corinthians (considered the top English amateur team) on August 18, 1906 at Hanlan's Point Stadium in Toronto.


Aemilius Jarvis

Jarvis also formed AEmilius Jarvis & Co., earning the friendship and respect of such men as Lord Minto (Governor General of Canada), J.P. Morgan, Sir Thomas Lipton, Lord Beaverbrook, Sir Henry Pellatt, and Ned Hanlan.

Hanlan's Point Beach

Hanlan's Beach can be reached most directly by taking the Hanlan's Point ferry at the foot of Bay Street at Queens Quay.

Ned Hanlan

Toronto, New South Wales, Australia was named after Toronto, Ontario, in honour of Edward Hanlan.

Royal Flying Corps Canada

Training was provided both by the Curtiss Aviation School at Long Branch near Toronto (land plane training) and Hanlan's Point on Toronto Island (for flying boat training), and in the United States.

The Cheyenne Social Club

O'Hanlan gets a letter from an attorney in Cheyenne, Wyoming, that his disreputable and now deceased brother, DJ, left him something called The Cheyenne Social Club in his will.

William Joseph O'Connor

On 18 March 1888 he defeated (for a stake of $2,000) the Pacific coast champion, Henry Peterson, and then on 24 Nov. 1888 on the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., he beat, for $1,000, the American champion, John Teemer, who had twice taken the title from Hanlan.


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