Lacrosse Legends

Jack Fulton – One of the most notable West Coast Builders of the Game

Bruce MacDonald and David Stewart-Candy – Accomplished B.C. historians connected with the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame and Museum

Bobby Allan – One of the great players, coaches and innovators in the game.

Lacrosse Talks Special Don Fisher – One of North America’s top lacrosse historians

Peter Black - Season 2 Peter led the powerful Vancouver, British Columbia Burrards to the Mann Cup finals five times and four times his mates came away victorious. During his eleven-year playing career, Black participated in 399 games, scoring 443 goals and 320 assists for 763 points. He also shared the rookie-of-the-year award and was on five all-star teams. Whenever Vancouver would play New West...

Ernie Mitchell - Season 2 Ernie had numerous career playing highlights before he turned to coaching. He was the starting goalie for the NLL Montreal Les Quebecois in 1974-1975. In 1980 in Vancouver, Mitchell and an Iroquois Nations team won silver at the World Box Lacrosse Championship, an event at which he was accorded all-star honours. Mitchell would go on to play for the Akwesasne Warriors Seni...

Bruce Wanless - Season 2 Bruce is known as one of the game’s greatest defensive players. He was inducted into the Brampton Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1987 , the Ontario Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1997 and the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2002. Bruce did not begin playing until 1955 as a 17 year old. He ended in 1972 having played with the Brampton Excelsiors mainly, and the professional Detroit t...

Bruce Roundpoint - Season 2 Bruce was inducted into the Ontario Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1997 representing Akwesasne. Bruce’s family is known for being important stickmakers for the game, at one time supplying 97% of the game’s sticks worldwide. He was Captain of the All-Star Native Team that played in the 1980 Commonwealth Games. Bruce played for the Montreal Les Quebecois in the original Nationa...

Johnny Davis - Season 2 Johnny is the most prolific scorer in the past 60 years of box lacrosse. In his rookie year with Peterborough, Ontario, in 1966 he scored 51 goals and had 69 assists, capping it off with a Mann Cup and a Mike Kelly MVP Medal as the Rookie of the Year. Davis won 4 Minto Cups in his Junior years. For eight seasons John dominated the Ontario Lacrosse Association in scoring and...

Jim Burke - Season 2 Jim won the Jim McFall Award in 1985 for dedication and leadership to the game of lacrosse in Alberta. Burke started field lacrosse in Calgary and co-coached the 1989 U19 National Champions for field lacrosse. He was the winner of the 1991 Joe Nieuwendyk Award for dedication to the growth and development to the sport of lacrosse in Calgary. Burke then became the president of t...

Cam Bomberry - Season 2 Cam began playing lacrosse when he was just three years old. He worked his way through the Six Nation’s minor league box lacrosse program and began playing for St. Catherine’s Junior A team when he was 15. He finished his junior career with the Six Nations Arrows and won the Minto Cup in 1992 and was captain of the first Indigenous based franchise to win a Minto Cup and won...

Michelle Bowyer - Season 2 Michelle is a pioneer of Canadian Women's Lacrosse and excelled in both the field and box versions of the game. Michelle Bowyer captained 11 consecutive BC Selects women’s field lacrosse championship teams between 1983 and 1992, but she got her start in box lacrosse in Port Coquitlam in 1972 and went on to win league, BC provincial and Canadian national championships wit...

John Grant Sr. and Jim Wasson - Season 2 John and Jim are the definition of teammates. They played together on various teams from Minor Lacrosse to Senior Lacrosse and as Team Canada members and also for the Philadelphia Wings in the early version of the NLL. John Grant Sr. excelled in Box and Field Lacrosse. He played in Peterborough and was on the 1972 Minto Cup Champion as the MVP of the series...

Sam Seward - Season 2 Sam is from the Squamish Nation and has been involved with lacrosse for almost 60 years as a player, Coach and Manager. As a player he got his start as in the North Shore Minor Association and played through Junior B with them. He played Junior A with the Salmonbellies, and was brought up to play with the North Shore Indians Senior B Club. He played in the first World Box eve...

Barb Boyes - Season 2 Barb's contribution to Women’s Field Lacrosse in Ontario and Canada goes back to her representing Canada in the first Women’s World Field Lacrosse Championship in 1982. She is the Founder and Executive Director of the renowned Oshawa Lady Blue Knights Field Lacrosse Program since 2000. Through her programs, Barb Boyes has been responsible for dozens of Canadian girls playing...

Bob Salt - Season 2 Bob was a league all-star eight times, winner of the Maitland Trophy for play, sportsmanship, and contributing to minor lacrosse, and was twice awarded the Commission playoff MVP award. He also played on three Mann Cup teams, twice with Vancouver in 1967 and 1975 and as a pickup player with New Westminster in 1972. Salt also showed his great leadership by coaching in the junior...

Dean McLeod - Season 2 Dean has a long list of accomplishments involving Brampton and both the Mann Cup and Minto Cup. He has also been involved at both the national and international levels on behalf of Canada. Perhaps his greatest contributions have come through serving as Commissioner for Ontario’s Junior A League. Dean McLeod has provided a lifetime of service to lacrosse as builder of the gam...

Wayne Baker - Season 2 Wayne has a life and lacrosse journey that is remarkable. The North Shore Squamish player and coach comes from one of the “lacrosse royal families” on the West Coast. He tells his story of being lost through alcoholism and credits lacrosse for helping him find his way. Baker has made his mark in entertainment as an actor on both the big and small screens. Credits include: Bu...

Carl White - Season 2 Carl played minor lacrosse on Cornwall Island, and then Jr. B for the St. Regis Braves from 1967 to 1971. The Braves were the Junior B Quebec Champions in 1967 and 1968. They also were Junior B OLA Champions in 1970 and 1971. He then left Akwesasne and Cornwall for Brooklin and Peterborough. White played senior lacrosse for the Brooklin Redmen in 1972. In 1973, he played for...

Kevin Alexander - Season 2 Kevin has been called the Wayne Gretzky of lacrosse because of his stick prowess and scoring ability. He was inducted into the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1991 after retiring from box lacrosse in 1986. In the last year of his junior career – 1976 – he led Victoria to win the Minto Cup and was named MVP of the tournament. On the international front, Alexander repres...

Bill Hutton - Season 2 Bill is one of the consummate Builders of the game of lacrosse domestically and internationally. Over his long and illustrious career, he has coached at the minor level and served as President of both the Ontario Lacrosse Association and the Canadian Lacrosse Association—and just about everything else in between. He has been Chair of the Canadian Lacrosse Foundation and rece...

Stew Begg - Season 2 Stew has officiated and administrated lacrosse officials at all amateur levels since 1962 when he started with the game in Cornwall, Ontario. Up until 1998 he had officiated at the Founders’ Cup, Presidents’ Cup and Mann Cup games as an official. After that he served as Referee-In-Chief (RIC) for the Founders’ Cup and Minto Cup, as well as the 2007 FIL World Indoor Championshi...

Bobby Delormier, Bill Sunday and Ron Thomas - Season 2 These three amigos have been friends for most of their lives. During their playing careers Sunday and Delormier were based out of Akwesasne and Thomas hailed from Six Nations. All three were inducted into the Ontario Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1998. Delormier is best remembered for his shifty dodging ability. He was a member of championship team...

Bill Bradley - Season 2 Bill Bradley is regarded as one of the greatest Adanacs ever, and he was certainly the club's spiritual leader for all those years while Mike Gates was the scoring leader. Bill Bradley began his box career playing juvenile lacrosse in North Burnaby and lead the North Burnaby Norburns into the 1961 Minto Cup national junior final. During the next fourteen years, Bill played...

Cap Bomberry - Season 2 Cap has been involved in lacrosse for over 60 years. At his induction into the Ontario Lacrosse Hall of Fame it was said, "Cap is renowned for recruiting players for his team and well respected by his community and peers". Cap played for the Oshweken Warriors from 1959-1973 and won the President's Cup in 1964, 1967 & 1968. He helped out in the minor organization from 1975-8...