Running-Fred Simpson - Olympian
Fred Simpson - The Ojibway Thunderbolt - 1878-1945
By Dave Mowat
Peterborough
Softball-Women:1968-1986
By Patsy Currelly Hand
Cobourg Angels, Junior Angels, & Surrounding Teams
Wheelchair Racing-Frank Mazza
Frank was born April 7th 1958 at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Peterborough Ontario. His parents, Frank and Maria, were ecstatic about the arrival of a beautiful baby boy. He would be the third child in his loving family. His sisters Anna Maria and Pia were extremely happy to have a new addition to the family.
FRED SIMPSON
Fred Simpson, known as the Ojibway Thunderbolt, was born in Alderville, in 1878, to James and Mary Simpson. By 1891, he had lost both of his parents and was raised by his maternal grandmother. In adulthood, Fred stood at 5’11” and weighed 145 pounds, possessing great strength and stamina. That stature would lead him to become one of the best runners in Canada. Around 1899, Fred moved to the Hiawatha Reserve on the north shore of Rice Lake and married Susan Muskrat.
Softball–Women: The Early Years
By the Currelly sisters, Nancy, Patsy and Carol
Women’s softball began in Cobourg on Labour Day, in 1926. Mrs. Arthur Bulger gathered a group of girls for a last-minute game against a visiting team from Toronto. Long skirts were the attire for the game. Cobourg won and the history of girls’ softball began.
Softball-Cold Springs Cats 1975-89
By Ewart Timlin, Manager Edited by Donna Cole
Pre-Cats (1973)
Where the h--- is Cold Springs? That was a common question people asked about our ball team in the 80's and 90's, especially when we traveled out of province. However, in the 60's and early 70's everyone usually played for their own team in Cobourg or Port Hope, or their village such as Bewdley, Harwood, Baltimore, Plainville, or Cold Springs. Therefore, everyone knew everyone else who played softball.
Cricket-Cobourg Cricket Club
Cricket like most other sports was brought to North America. The earliest record of a cricket match being played in Canada, by civilians, appears in the form of a reference to a game played at Ile-Ste-Helene, near Montreal, in 1785. Cricket is one of the oldest sports played in Cobourg. It was popular well into the 1890s.
Rowing-Jeremiah Brown
Jeremiah Brown was born November 25, 1985 in Cobourg. He was the middle child, Julia younger and Jenny older. He and his family spent part of his youth living in Port Hope across the road from the Ganaraska River. In his late teens, in Cobourg, he tried to pull off a prank that landed him in jail for several days. He was sentenced to 80 hours of community service and 1 year of probation.
FRANK MAZZA
“Fast” Frank Mazza is a Gold Medal Olympian and a Gold, Silver and Bronze Paralympic World Games medalist. He started racing in 1982 and represented Canada internationally from 1983 through 1986.