Joan Haines

Joan Haines, whose full name is given as Joan (Rocco) Haines, was born in Vancouver on September 26, 1945, and is a Canadian female bowler who was named the best female bowler in the world in 1965. The distinction came while she was taking part in a bowlerama, a bowl-a-thon, at the Commodore Lanes bowling alley in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia. She was known for an unusual approach that looked like a tap dance, and she became famous when she bowled four turkeys, four strikes in a row, in a single game; her photograph still hangs at the lanes today. A writer on the CBC television series Da Vinci's Inquest paid homage to her by creating a recurring character named Joan Hanes, with the spelling changed slightly, played by Jada Stark in the 2004 episodes The Squirrels Are of English Descent and Can Bend, But I Won't Break.