Benjamin Jamieson

Benjamin Jamieson was a Canadian lacrosse player who won an Olympic gold medal with the Winnipeg Shamrocks at the 1904 Summer Olympics. Born on 15 March 1874 in Arran Township, Ontario, he did not take up the sport until his mid twenties but became one of the best-known lacrosse players in Manitoba. After four years with the Winnipeg Victorias he moved to the city's Shamrock Lacrosse Club, which won the 1903 Manitoba provincial championship and so earned a place at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, where it beat the St. Louis Amateur Athletic Association side 8 to 2 for the Olympic gold. Away from sport he was a conductor for the Canadian Pacific Railway. In August 1905 he stepped into a street fight and was stabbed several times, and although he survived he was weakened and died in Victoria, British Columbia, on 3 December 1915, aged 41. He and his teammates were inducted into the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame in 2004.