Prior to the late fifties, the sky was the limit in terms of how many skaters any country could send to the World Figure Skating Championshi...

Photo courtesy Stu McLennan With gratitude to Gordon's grandson Stu, Estelle Lane of the Governor General's Footguards Museum and m...

Every Skate Guard blog that is put together draws from a variety of different sources - everything from museum and library holdings and gene...

Ice dancing has long been criticized for the lack of movement in the standings from one phase of the competition to the next, particularly i...

When you dig through skating history, you never know what you will unearth. In the spirit of cataloguing fascinating tales from skating hist...

Maribel Vinson and George Hill. Photo courtesy "Skating" magazine. "If figure skating could be mastered easily it might ...

"Everything that is skating - good form, sureness, rhythm, and music." - Frederick Goodridge, "Skating" magazine, 1932...