Sam Gardiner

Samuel Cooper Gardiner, known as Sam Gardiner, was an English born Canadian international lawn bowler. He emigrated to Canada at the age of 20 and made his bowling life there, serving as president of the North Vancouver Lawn Bowling Club. Playing for Canada in the pairs with Dick Williams, he won the silver medal at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, a home Games for his adopted country. In 1968 both men were inducted into the North Shore Sports Hall of Fame in recognition of that result. Gardiner is a small but clear example of the emigrant bowlers who carried the club game of England into the Commonwealth and its team events.