Kenneth Farmer

Kenneth Pentin Farmer, born in Westmount, Quebec, on 26 July 1912, was a Canadian ice hockey player who later became a chartered accountant and a leader of Canadian sport. He played for the Port Arthur Bearcats at the 1936 Winter Olympics, where Canada won the silver medal and he finished with the second-highest points total of the tournament, ten goals and four assists. He served in the Royal Montreal Regiment and the Manitoba Dragoons in the Second World War, then was president of the Canadian Olympic Association from 1953 to 1961 and of the Commonwealth Games Association of Canada from 1977 to 1983. He entered the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame in 1971, became a Member of the Order of Canada in 1981 and died on 12 January 2005.