Year Inducted: 1987
Home Town: Armstrong
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Peter Poole, the guiding force behind Windfields Farm, Oshawa for 36 years, saw Kentucky Derby winner Northern Dancer develop. Peter, born in Armstrong, B.C. in 1920, began his horse racing career when he joined Windfields Farm in 1950 as a foreman. In 1968 he became general manager until his retirement in 1986. Windfields, under Peter's leadership, bred more stakes winners than any other breeder in the world.
The farm boasted of three English Derby winners, three Irish Derby winners and twenty Queen's Plate winners. The golden jewel of Peter's career was the great Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner, Northern Dancer whose birth Peter supervised and attended. Northern Dancer, after his racing career ended, went on to sire many great horses including Nijinsky, winner of the English triple crown. He became the greatest sire the world had ever known. Peter's own long and very successful career came to an end with his retirement in 1986.
Year Inducted: 2013
Birth Date: June 29, 1963
Home Town: Poland
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Peter Sidorkiewicz, an Oshawa Minor Hockey graduate, went on to star for the Oshawa Generals and play in the National Hockey League.Born in Poland on June 29, 1963, Peter\'s family moved to Oshawa when he was a youngster. He starred in the Oshawa Minor Hockey Association, winning an Ontario Bantam Championship in 1977.He played with the Oshawa Generals from 1980 to 1984, leading the team to an Ontario Hockey League championship and Memorial Cup appearance in 1983.After being taken in the fifth round of the 1981 NHL draft by Washington, he made his NHL debut with the Hartford Whalers in 1988 and was named to the NHL\'s All-Rookie team in 1989. After four more seasons with Hartford, Peter moved to the expansion Ottawa Senators in 1992, and was the team\'s representative in the NHL All-Star game. He then moved on to the New Jersey Devils organization and retired in 1998. He finished his career playing in 246 regular season games.
Year Inducted: 2016
Birth Date: February 17, 1944
Home Town: Oshawa
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Peter Stephenson was born in Oshawa on February 17, 1944. Although a strong player, Peter also had a major impact on the sport as a builder, where he has served as a coach, official and administrator, he was a coach at the 1974 Canada Winter Games, received a certificate of recognition for achievement in amateur sport in Ontario in 1986, won the Ontario Badminton President Award in 1987, 2004 and 2008, earned a Celebration 88 certificate of merit from the Canadian government in 1988, became a Badminton Canada life member in 2003 and won the Syl Apps special achievement award in 2007.He is a certified Level 2 coach, has been a national referee for more than 15 years, a national umpire for over 30 years and has officiated at all levels, including provincial and national championships and the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria. Peter started and coached a badminton program at Durham College and has served as president at the Oshawa YMCA, district president for the Ontario Central Region, and a director for the Ontario Badminton Association.Also prominent in the Boy Scouts of Canada for more than 35 years, Peter was recognized with the Silver Acorn Award, one of the highest awards for volunteering honors, in 1999.
Year Inducted: 2022
Home Town: Oshawa
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Oshawa resident Randy Richards, who excelled in ski jumping, is both an athlete and a coach.Richards began ski jumping at the Oshawa Ski Club at the age of four and, as his skills developed, progressed to inter-club competitions in Ottawa, Kitchener and Thunder Bay. He was a member of the Canadian national team from 1970 to 1980 and represented Canada at several Continental and World Cup events, including the Junior World Championships in Quebec City in 1979. In 1981, while training for a World Cup event in Thunder Bay, Randy suffered a serious ankle injury that ended his jumping career.Rather than give up on jumping altogether, Randy switched his focus to coaching and returned to the Oshawa Ski Club following six months of rehabilitation. He became the Jr. National Development Coach and helped several team members reach the national level. In 1985, Randy became the first native-born Canadian to coach on the National Ski Jumping team and led the team at the 1988 Calgary Olympics.Although ski jumping was his first love, Randy was an active lacrosse player and played two seasons with the Oshawa Green Gaels junior team. He has also coach minor lacrosse in Clarington guiding the Clarington Midget Gaels to a provincial championship title in 2006.
Year Inducted: 2005
More about Rick Middleton:
Rick played youth hockey for Wexford and the Toronto Young Nationals, before lacing them up for two seasons with the Oshawa Generals from 1971-73. In the 1972-73 season, Rick scored a league high 67 goals, and received the Red Tilson Award as the league's most valuable player.
In June 1973, Rick was a first round National Hockey League draft pick, selected fourteenth overall by the New York Rangers. After three years in the Ranger's organization, he was traded to the Boston Bruins, where he played twelve seasons before retiring in 1988. Rick amassed 988 points in his fourteen year NHL career, scoring 448 goals and 540 assists. He had five consecutive 40 goals seasons from 1979-84, scored 51 goals in 1982, and had two 100 plus point seasons. In the 1981-82 season, he was awarded the League's Lady Byng Trophy, and also had the honor of being named Co-Captain of the Bruins from 1985-88 with Ray Bourque. Although Rick played in three Stanley Cup Finals, three All-Star Games, and two Canada Cup Tournaments, he said his biggest thrill in hockey came in the 2002 Paralympic Games in Salt Lake City, where, as Head Coach, he led the U.S. National Sled Hockey Team to a Gold Medal. Rick's long and illustrious career warrants his place in the Oshawa Sports Hall of Fame.
Year Inducted: 2018
Home Town: Oshawa
More about Rob Pearson:
Oshawa-born Rob Pearson, whose outstanding career in hockey has included playing for the Oshawa Generals and Toronto Maple Leafs. A multi-sport athlete growing up in Oshawa, Rob excelled most of all in hockey, winning numerous tournament MVP awards from peewee to bantam and helping lead the Oshawa Kiwanis midget team to the Air Canada Cup in Thunder Bay.A first-round draft pick of the Belleville Bulls in 1988, Pearson was traded to the Generals in 1990 and racked up an incredible 57 goals and 109 points in just 41 games, winning the Jim Mahon Memorial Trophy as the top scoring right winger in the OHL with 118 points all together. He was named to the OHL first all-star team in 1991 and helped lead the Generals to the league final with 16 goals and 33 points in 16 playoff games. Drafted in the first round, 12th overall, by the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1989, Pearson played 269 games in the NHL with the Leafs, Washington Capitals and St. Louis Blues, scoring 56 goals and adding 54 assists for 100 points. He also played in the AHL and IHL before finishing his career in Europe with the Frankfurt Lions.Since retiring as a player, Rob has remained active with the Leafs alumni and as a coach: in minor hockey with Clarington and Whitby; as an assistant coach with the UOIT Ridgebacks for a year; and currently as head coach of the Whitby Fury. He has also been active in organizing community service initiatives and skill-building clinics in Durham Region.For his many contributions to the sport, Rob Pearson is a superb addition to the Oshawa Sports Hall of Fame.
Year Inducted: 1986
Home Town: Oshawa
More about Robert A. Attersley:
Beginning in 1950, Oshawa-born Bob Attersley played three seasons with the Oshawa Generals of the Ontario Hockey Association Junior A circuit. In the 1952-53 season, he captured the Red Tilson Memorial Trophy as the league's outstanding player. But his greatest victory was still five years away. Playing for the Whitby Dunlops at the 1958 World Hockey Championships in Osio, Attersley and the Canadian crew brought home the gold medal. Attersley spent seven seasons with the Dunlops, who participated at the Senior A and Senior B levels. In his final season with the Dunlops, 1960, Attersley was asked to join a Kitchener outfit which was to represent Canada at the 1960 Olympic Games at Squaw Valley, United States. The team won a silver medal. A resident of Oshawa from his birth in 1933 until 1958, Attersley later moved to Whitby and became a prominent member of the business community, and later served as Mayor.
Year Inducted: 2000
More about Robert Booth:
A dedicated athlete and a most competitive player for over 50 years, Bob has achieved Ontario championship honours in four different sports, namely cycling, fastball, basketball and squash.
Bob first achieved athletic fame by winning an Ontario title in bicycle racing for the one-mile event at the Canadian Wheelman's Junior Cycling championships in 1949.
A standout catcher for Maple Cleaners and Oshawa Tony's Softball Teams, Bob helped his teams win all-Ontario Provincial Senior B titles in 1954, 1956, 1957 and a Senior A title in 1958. While playing in the Toronto Beaches Fastball League, Bob won all-star honours as both a hitter and a catcher.
An outstanding guard during his many years of basketball, Bob helped win an intermediate A title playing for the Oshawa Shopping Centre All-Stars in the 1958-59 season.
Forty-five years after his first Ontario title, Bob won the Ontario Masters Senior Men's Squash Championship for 1994.
Year Inducted: 2012
Birth Date: October 02, 1924
Home Town: Oshawa
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Robert Joseph "Bob" Dionne was born on October 2, 1924. Raised in Oshawa he played hockey and softball. After 35 years working for General Motors he passed away in 1993.
In 1942, Bob was a member of the Oshawa Commercials Eastern Ontario Softball championship team. A proud Canadian he enlisted in the army serving in World War II. Battling the memories of war, he married and continued his legacy in sports.
In 1948, Bob played softball for the Legion Branch 43 Eastern Ontario Champions. He also played 3 years with Oshawa Tony's winning the All Ontario Softball Championship and attending the first World Championship in the U.S.A. in 1956.
While still playing and raising a family, Bob found time to devote to the community along with the help of others establishing the Knights of Columbus Hardball Little League. Bob was the driving force to expand the league from 4 to 8 teams.
The establishment of the Catholic Youth Organization (C.Y.O.) minor hockey league, again with the help of others, was his next task. Bob was the first league president and had a trophy dedicated in his honour.
Coaching in both the C.Y.O. and Oshawa Minor Hockey Association left his summers free for his family and a passion for golf and cottage life. He attended the Hockey Coach's Symposium in Kingston and held coaches and player clinics in Oshawa.
His knowledge of the game of hockey and his fierce competitive spirit contributed to success behind the bench. As coach of the Oshawa Crushmen Junior B Hockey Team from 1966 to 1971, Bob led the team to 3 first place regular season finishes, 2 League Championships and 2 All Ontario Semi Final appearances.
Being recognized as a ball player from Oshawa by the Honourable Michael Starr on the steps of Parliament in Ottawa, and then having he and his family shaking the hand of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker was one of Bob Dionne's proudest moments.
Year Inducted: 1986
More about Robert Gordon Orr:
Bobby Orr, who revolutionized the defence position with his attacking style of play, led the Oshawa Generals to a Memorial Cup (Canadian Junior Hockey Championship) appearance in the 1965-66 season, and was a first-team National Hockey League All-Star eight times in his injury-shortened 10-season career with the Boston Bruins and Chicago Black Hawks. He won the James Norris Trophy (best defenceman) on eight occasions, was the Art Ross Trophy winner (leading scorer) twice, was a three-time recipient of the Hart Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player, and once won the Conn Smythe Trophy as the outstanding playoff performer. He also won the Calder Trophy as NHL Rookie-of-the-Year, and played on two Stanley Cup Championship teams with the Bruins. Bobby was also selected as the Most Valuable Player at the 1976 Canada Cup, which Team Canada won. Bobby, hailed by many observers as the greatest player of all time, received the Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada's Outstanding Athlete in 1970.
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