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Jim Riddell’s Sports Talk
Presents with Area Senior: Gerry Brown
Serving You Since 1937
Blair Munro. Blair is a nephew of Cup finals, which in those days was
Beryl and Gerry’s and although Jim the pinnacle of amateur hockey. In
isn’t blood related, he and his family 1937 Gerry then went to England to
always referred to them as Aunt and play two seasons with the Earls Court
By Jim Riddell Uncle and were very close. Blair has Rangers of the England Tournament
compiled one of the best scrapbooks League, which was equivalent the
erry Brown, a city resident and that you could possibly imagine. The American Hockey League. As one of
Gformer professional hockey book contains many decades worth the league’s top players, Gerry was
player, is perhaps best remembered of newspaper clippings, plus cards featured on the front page of “Ice
in Cornwall for the 36 years that he and messages from individuals such Hockey World.” With the outbreak
spent helping to guide kids at the
as Don Cherry and Harold Ballard. of war in 1939 Gerry returned to
hockey school named in his honour. Canada, enlisted in the army and
Started by the city of Cornwall in Gerry Brown was born in got sent to Cornwall for training. He
1962, it has been estimated that at the Edmonton Alberta in 1917, playing quickly became a member of a very
time of his death in 1998, more than his minor hockey there. He played impressive Cornwall Flyers army
ten thousand young hockey players Jr. from 1933-35 with the Edmonton hockey team that included at least
had learned the fundamentals of the Southsiders, then moving up to the a half dozen professional players,
game at the Gerry Brown Hockey Edmonton Dominions Sr Team. including Detroit Red Wings goalie
School. I recently sat down with Gerry played from 1935-37 with the Baz Bastien, and future Toronto
Jim Payette and his half-brother Dominions, going once to the Allen Jim Payette and Blair Munro
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