Edward "Ned" Hanlan was a professional rower, hotelier, and alderman from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Hanlan's father, John, was first a fisher and later a hotelkeeper on the Toronto Islands. The Hanlan family had originally lived at the east end of Toronto Island, but a severe storm in 1865 pushed their little house into the harbour. It washed ashore near the north end of Gibraltar Point, at the island's west end. A few years later, Ned's father built a small hotel there, … Wikipedia
Even as a child, Ned Hanlan demonstrated the love of Toronto Harbour and the felicity with boats that would dominate his life. www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=40886
Canadas first national and international sports hero, Edward Ned Hanlan (1855-1908), was world champion from 1880 to 1884 in the very popular sport of single-scull rowing. www.collectionscanada.ca/sporting-lives/05270202_e.html
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Ned spent most of the summer racing in New York State. After his success with the sliding seat, other scullers had put them on their boats. Ned was still the master, though. He usually wore a blue racing shirt, which earned him the nickname "The Boy in umanitoba.ca/outreach/cm/vol14/no4/fireonthewater.html
Hanlan was born in 1855. Hanlan's father was a hotelkeeper on Toronto Islands , and young Hanlan used to row several kilometers across the harbour, to go to and from school every day. By the time Hanlan was a teenager he was competing in rowing events. www.ezgeography.com/encyclopedia/Ned_Hanlan
If there was a "superstar" in the sport of rowing in Canada, it had to be Ned Hanlan , " The Boy in Blue ". He was born on July 2, 1855 of Irish immigrants. They had settled near today's regatta course at Mugg's Landing, where his father built a hotel. www.rowiki.com/wiki/Ned_Hanlan
Ned spent most of the summer racing in New York State. After his success with the sliding seat, other scullers had put them on their boats. Ned was still the master, though. He usually wore a blue racing shirt, which earned him the nickname "The Boy in www.umanitoba.ca/outreach/cm/vol14/no4/fireonthewater.html