Jack Flett

John Flett, known as Jack Flett, was a Canadian lacrosse player who won an Olympic gold medal with the Winnipeg Shamrocks at the 1904 Summer Olympics. Born in Kildonan, Manitoba, on 19 November 1871, he was considered the best defensive lacrosse player in Winnipeg during the 1900s. He was not part of the Shamrock Lacrosse Club when it won the 1903 Manitoba Provincial Championship but joined it at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, where it beat the St. Louis Amateur Athletic Association 8 to 2. He later built a career of about a quarter century in the British Columbia provincial government, including nearly two decades on the province's film censorship board, and was an accomplished musician. His brothers Rod and Magnus won the Stanley Cup with the Winnipeg Victorias. He died in West Vancouver on 13 December 1932.