Kenneth Moore (ice hockey)
Appearance
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1932 Lake Placid | Team |
Kenneth Strath "Ken" Moore (February 17, 1910 – December 8, 1981) was a Canadian ice hockey player who competed in the 1932 Winter Olympics. He was born in Balcarres, Saskatchewan. He is the first indigenous person to win an Olympic gold medal.
In 1932, he was a member of the Winnipeg Hockey Club, the Canadian team which won the gold medal. He played one match and scored one goal. Moore was one of Canada's first indigenous Olympians and a member of the Peepeekisis First Nation in Saskatchewan, although his parents were originally from Norway House First Nation in Northern Manitoba. He married Edith Mae McDougall and has one daughter, two granddaughters and one great grandson. He died in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
External links
- Kenneth Moore's profile at databaseOlympics
- Kenneth Moore's profile at the Canadian Olympic Committee[permanent dead link ]
- Kenneth Moore's profile at Sports Reference.com
Categories:
- 1910 births
- 1981 deaths
- Canadian ice hockey right wingers
- Ice hockey players at the 1932 Winter Olympics
- Olympic ice hockey players of Canada
- Olympic gold medalists for Canada
- Ice hockey people from Saskatchewan
- Winnipeg Hockey Club players
- Olympic medalists in ice hockey
- Medalists at the 1932 Winter Olympics
- First Nations sportspeople
- Canadian ice hockey winger, 1910s births stubs
- Canadian Winter Olympic medalist stubs