Charles Querrie

Charles Laurens Querrie was born on 25 July 1877 in Markham, Ontario, and died on 5 April 1950 at Toronto General Hospital. Before he worked in hockey management he was a prominent lacrosse player in amateur and professional leagues, in his home town of Markham and in Toronto, and he was inducted into the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame as a field player in 1965, the first year of inductees. He later became the first general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs, then called the Toronto Arenas and the Toronto St. Patricks, and won two Stanley Cups with the club, in 1917-18 and 1921-22. In 1927 he sold his majority stake in the St. Pats to Conn Smythe.