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Lovers In A Dangerous Time

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 Photo courtesy Toronto Public Library, from Toronto Star Photographic Archive. Reproduced for educational purposes under license permission...

Pride Month

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Happy Pride Month! Check out Skate Guard's Pride Month page for Required Reading and a Pinterest board of LGBTQ+ Skating History. Stay ...

National Indigenous History Month

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  June is National Indigenous History Month! Skate Guard highlights the important history of skaters of First Nations, Inuit and Métis herit...

#Unearthed: The Mad English

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

Brackets and Birdies: The Frances Fletcher Story

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Photo courtesy City Of Toronto Archives "She is a skater of championship calibre, and her skating technique is almost faultless. Consta...

The 1969 Canadian Figure Skating Championships

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Program of the 1969 Canadian Championships. Photo courtesy Marie Petrie McGillvray. In 1969, Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto played host...

A Johannesburg Jumper: The Eric Muller Story

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Arthur Apfel congratulating Eric Muller at the 1950 South African Championships. Photo courtesy "Skating World" magazine. The son ...

Asian Canadian Skating Pioneers Through The Years

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Ari Furukawa and Tsutomu Tom Kimoto skating in Slocan, British Columbia, circa 1945. Photo courtesy Nikkei National Museum. "I have...

Devoted To Evolution: The Joel B. Liberman Story

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Photo courtesy "Skating" magazine "As a rule an author has one or two popular ways of contrasting the past with the pres...

Asian Heritage Month and Canadian Jewish Heritage Month

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May is Asian Heritage Month, Canadian Jewish Heritage Month and Jewish American Heritage Month! Skate Guard celebrates the important history...