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P. J. Mulqueen
Black and white photo of a middle-aged man wearing a suit and tie
Born(1867-04-08)April 8, 1867
Toronto, Province of Canada
DiedDecember 21, 1946(1946-12-21) (aged 79)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Resting placeMount Hope Catholic Cemetery
Occupation(s)Hotelier, storekeeper
Known forCanadian Olympic Committee president, Toronto Harbour Commission agent
AwardsCanadian Olympic Hall of Fame (1960)

Patrick Joseph Mulqueen (April 8, 1867 – December 21, 1946) was a Canadian sports executive and businessman.

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Early life

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  • Patrick Joseph Mulqueen was born in Toronto, on April 8, 1867, and raised in Cabbagetown. Mulqueen was regularly known as "P. J." to friends and colleagues.[1]
  • Known as P. J. Mulqueen and as Pat Mulqueen.[2]
  • Patrick Joseph Mulqueen. His parents: Patrick Mulqueen and Ellen O'Brien.[3]

Athletics career

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Early years including World War I
  • Mulqueen began his athletics career as an oarsman with the Don Rowing Club,[a] later serving on the club executive. He was also associated with the Toronto Rowing Club. Mulqueen was involved with rowing from the days of Ned Hanlan, and knew many stories of Hanlans' accomplishments. He was the official referee for several years at the Henley Royal Regatta in England. After Lou Scholes won the Diamond Challenge Sculls at the Henley Royal Regatta in 1904, Mulqueen took Scholes to England for the 1908 Summer Olympics.[1]
  • Mulqueen won the 1895 US National pairs title, with Joseph Wright, the first Canadians to claim the title.[5]
  • Mulqueen was a championship sculler, and played lacrosse.[6]
1920 to 1922
  • Mulqueen attended all Summer Olympic Games from 1920 to 1936. Mulqueen was the first chaiman of the Ontario Athletic Commission, appointed in 1920.[2]
  • As president of the Canadian Olympic Committee, he attended all of the Olympic Games worldwide, paying his own way, and claimed that he never accepting money from any sporting organization. The Toronto Star reported that Mulqueen was known to buy shoes and sporting equipment for Canadian Olympic athletes.[1]
1923 stadium proposal
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Toronto War Memorial Stadium proposal, c. 1923
  • The idea of a downtown Toronto sports stadium first surfaced in the years after the first world war. The Sportsmen's Patriotic League lobbied for a 16,000-seat municipal stadium on reclaimed waterfront land between Strachan and Bathurst, roughly where Coronation Park is located. The $220,000 War Memorial Stadium would, according to League spokesman Patrick J. Mulqueen, help "rehabilitate the greatest of all Canadian assets, its manhood". Plans drawn up by architecture firm Chapman, Oxley & Bishop envisioned a grand neoclassical colosseum with seating around an oval field. The shape lent itself to range of athletic uses, including baseball, football, soccer. Bathurst streetcars would service the main entrance and there was to be ample parking. The idea had the support of the city, but the expense was rejected in a January 1923 referendum.[8]
1924
Black and white photo of a hockey team outside on natural ice, including four men each dressed in a dark overcoat, and nine players dressed in hockey equipment white sweaters with a maple leaf crest
Toronto Granites at the 1924 Winter Olympics
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1924 International Curling Congress group photo
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1924 Amateur Athletic Union of Canada annual meeting group photo
  • The Olympic Winter Games were first held in 1924 in Chamonix, France.[7]
  • He personally donated $2,500 to the Canadian Olympic team who were short of funds to attend the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. [1]
  • After Mulqueen returned from the 1924 Summer Olympics, he stated that better results and more satisfaction would come from concentrating on British Empire Games, where the games would be staged in various countries in the empire and be open to British subjects. Mulqueen stated that tactics used by European boxers were disgraceful including rowdyism and riots.[9]
1926
1928
  • Patrick Joseph Mulqueen of Toronto, was chairman of the Canadian Oympic Committee. He stated that the 1928 tour of England, France, Germany and Austria, by the Canada men's national ice hockey team was mentioned more in European newspapers than in Canada. Mulqueen had attended each Olympic hockey tournament to date. Mulqueen noted that many ice rinks in Canada with artificial ice surfaces gave Canada an advantage in producing hockey players. He also felt that Canadian teams touring Europe were good advertizing for Canada.[10]
  • The 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam are considered a historic Olympic Games for Canada, especially in terms of women’s events. The women’s track and field team, which included sprinter Bobbie Rosenfeld and high jumper Ethel Catherwood, was dominant. Canadian women won four medals in athletics. Percy Williams was the fastest man, winning gold in the men’s 100 m and 200 m.[7]
1932 Winter Olympics
  • In 1932, most Canadian athletes had to pay their own way to the Olympic Games because the COA did not have much revenue due to the Great Depression. The Olympic Games were held in the United States; Los Angeles hosted the Summer Games, and Lake Placid hosted the Winter Games.[7]
  • Speed skating at the 1932 Winter Olympics – Men's 10,000 metres. The first heat was won by Canada's Alexander Hurd, but he was disqualified. The second heat, a foul by Frank Stack of Canada, disqualified. The Canadians protested, and a compromise was reached in which the three disqualified skaters from the first heat, including Hurd, would be allowed to skate in the final. This did not satisfy the Canadian delegation, and Patrick Mulqueen then threatened to withdraw his country’s delegation from the Games. The other nations eventually gave in, and the referee decided that the heats would be re-run the next morning, and the final was moved to 8 February. Frank Stack won the bronze medal, and Hurd placed seventh.[11]
1936 Winter Olympics
  • In 1936, the Olympic Winter Games and Olympic Summer Games took place in Germany. That the COA even sent a team at all was considered controversial because of Germany’s discriminatory treatment of Jewish people.[7]
  • The 1936 Olympic Winter Games were held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Canada sent 29 athletes (22 men, 7 women) and placed ninth in the overall medal count with one silver medal. For the first time at the Olympic Winter Games, Canada did not win the gold medal in ice hockey. It was a controversial result, with the Port Arthur Bear Cats finishing second to a British team that included several Canadian players. The 1936 Olympic Winter Games were themselves contentious, given the anti-Semitic policies of German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party. Left-wing and Jewish groups in Canada and other countries proposed a boycott of the Games but were unsuccessful. The 1936 Olympic Winter Games marked the beginning of a decades-long dispute about where to draw the line between eligible amateurs and professionals. Canada had some difficulty mustering a hockey team because most of the Allan Cup champion Halifax Wolves had turned professional. The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) organizers decided to send the runner-up Port Arthur Bear Cats instead. Canada also protested the inclusion of two Canadian players, goalie James Foster and forward Alex Archer, on the British team, since both played for British clubs and could therefore be considered professional athletes. Great Britain already had many players who had been born in Britain but had learned the game in Canada. The protest was withdrawn partway through the Games. The Canadians would regret this when Foster helped defeat the Canadians 2–1 in the second round (Foster allowed only three goals in seven games during the tournament). The Bear Cats were denied the opportunity to avenge the loss, since tournament rules stipulated that victories against an opponent carried over into the final round. Thus, Canada’s loss to Great Britain in the second round gave the British the gold medal. Outraged Canadian officials claimed that the rules had been changed during the Games, and Canadian Olympic Committee chairman P. J. Mulqueen called it “one of the worst manipulations in sporting history.”[12]
1937 onward
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  • The 1940 and 1944 Olympic Games were cancelled due to the Second World War. Succeeded as COC president by Andrew Sidney Dawes 1947.[7]
Undated
  • Mulqueen was credited for ecouraging professional baseball, and girls' baseball.[6]
  • Founded in 1909, the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) was responsible for selecting and organizing Canadian Olympic teams and for soliciting funds for the teams’ support. Although the COC was officially a standing committee of the Amateur Athletic Union of Canada (AAU of C) until after the Second World War, it functioned independently under the leadership of its president, Toronto businessman Patrick J. Mulqueen, an amateur sports enthusiast and former Canadian champion rower. The COC, sometimes referred to in the press as “the good old boys,” operated like an elite club, guarding its control of Canada’s Olympic involvement. COC committee members prided themselves on managing an efficient Olympic organization that championed Canadian participation at the highest levels of international amateur athletic competition.[13]

Business career

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Black and white photo with three buildings near a downtown intersection, with cars on the roadway and pedestrians on the sidewalks
The former Tremont House Hotel (centre building), c. 1922
Black and white aerial photo looking northward from the harbour to the downtown area
Toronto Harbour in 1919, including the Toronto Harbour Commission Building on the wharf
  • In business life, he operated a grocery store on Wilton Avenue, later known as Dundas Street East. He later owned and operated the Tremont House hotel at Yonge Street and Queen Street in Toronto. He sold the hotel during World War II and retired. Mulqueen first appointed to the Toronto Harbour Commission on February 15, 1930, then reappointed by the Canadian government on April 4, 1938.[1]
  • In early business years, Mulqueen operated a grocery store on the northwest corner of Berkeley St. and Wilton Ave. (now Dundas St.), and sold candy "grab bags". Later went into the hotel business and retired 30 years ago (circa 1916?). Served on the Toronto Harbour Commission for 13 years.[6]
  • Mulqueen operated the Tremont House, which included a bar (drinking establishment) that was reportedly the longest in Toronto, when remodelled in 1912.[15]
  • April 8, 1915. Mulqueen sold his license for the Tremont Hotel Company in April 1915, reportedly for CA$160,000, equivalent to $4,120,656 in 2023.[16]

Personal life

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Large upright grey granite stone engraved with the name Mulqueen at the bottom, an Irish Cross at the top, names of family members in the middle.
Mulqueen family memorial at Mount Hope Catholic Cemetery
  • Mulqueen married Margaret Melady on April 10, 1899, in Toronto.[3]
  • Mulqueen was married, had a son and daughter living at his death. Funeral held for Mulqueen on December 24, 1946, at this house in Rosedale, with burial at Mount Hope Catholic Cemetery in Toronto.[18]
  • Mulqueen died on December 21, 1946, in Toronto after a long illness.[2]

Honours and legacy

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  • Mulqueen was made a life member of the Ontario Hockey Association in 1928, in recognition of his work with the Canadian Olympic Committee. The Toronto Star described Mulqueen as, "known throughout Canada, the United States and Europe as one of the leading sportsmen of his time".[1]

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Uncited books / archives

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  • Hewitt, W. A. (1958). Down the Stretch: Recollections of a Pioneer Sportsman and Journalist. Toronto, Ontario: Ryerson Press. OCLC 8623829.
  • J. Howard Crocker fonds at University of Western Ontario

Uncited news

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  • December 9, 1922[24]
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  • September 27, 1924[27]
  • November 20, 1936[31]
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Notes

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  1. ^ The Don Rowing Club was established in Toronto in 1878, and relocated to Port Credit in 1960.[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Led Canadians In Sport: P. J. Mulqueen, 79, Dead". Toronto Star. December 23, 1946. p. 13.
  2. ^ a b c "Pat Mulqueen Dies". Winnipeg Free Press. The Canadian Press. December 23, 1946. p. 12.
  3. ^ a b Schedule B: County of York Marriages, Toronto, Ontario: Archives of Ontario, 1899, p. 63
  4. ^ "The Don Rowing Club History". Don Rowing Club of Mississauga. 2022. Retrieved December 3, 2023.
  5. ^ "Joe Wright Sr". Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. 1955. Retrieved December 3, 2023.
  6. ^ a b c "The Late Mr. P. J. Mulqueen". Toronto Star. December 23, 1946. p. 6.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g Freeborn, Jeremy (March 25, 2021). "Canadian Olympic Committee". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved January 18, 2024.
  8. ^ Bateman, Chris (April 1, 2015). "Stadia mania: Toronto's six-decade quest for a civic stadium". Spacing. Toronto, Ontario. Retrieved December 3, 2023.
  9. ^ "British Empire Games". The Argus. Melbourne, Australia. Reuters. August 12, 1924. p. 11. Retrieved January 5, 2024 – via Trove.
  10. ^ "Canada's Olympic Sports Chairman". Edmonton Journal. March 31, 1928. p. 22.
  11. ^ "10,000 metres, Men". Olympedia. 2023. Retrieved December 30, 2024.
  12. ^ Marsh, James H.; de Bruin, Tabitha (February 28, 2018). "Canada at the 1936 Olympic Winter Games". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada. Retrieved December 30, 2024.
  13. ^ "Canada & the 1936 Olympics–The Boycott Debate: Olympic Promoters". Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre. Retrieved December 30, 2024.
  14. ^ "Gray, James Wilson". Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada. Retrieved December 4, 2023.
  15. ^ "Toronto's Bars Three-Quarters of a Mile Long". Toronto Star. August 17, 1912. p. 6.
  16. ^ "Hotel License Sold". Toronto Star. April 8, 1915. p. 2.
  17. ^ "Canada Firm, Says Mulqueen". Winnipeg Free Press. British United Press. October 10, 1939. p. 5.
  18. ^ "Last Tribute Is Paid To Noted Sportsman". Toronto Star. December 24, 1946. p. 26.
  19. ^ Interment registration card #32809, Toronto, Ontario: Mount Hope Catholic Cemetery, December 24, 1946
  20. ^ "OHA Life Members". Ontario Hockey Association. 2023. Retrieved December 28, 2023.
  21. ^ "Members–Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame" (PDF). Canadian Olympic Committee. 2019. Retrieved December 2, 2023.
  22. ^ Renson, Roland; Ameye, Thomas (March 2015). "Stepping out of Coubertin's Shadow: The Count and the 1932 Winter Olympics" (PDF). International Society of Olympic Historians. Retrieved December 30, 2024.
  23. ^ Pitsula, James M. (September 2004). "Strange Salute: Their host was a Nazi dictator, but Canadian athletes at the 1936 Berlin Olympics thought good manners should prevail". The Beaver. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Canada's National History Society. pp. 14–19. Retrieved December 30, 2024 – via Issuu.
  24. ^ "Amateur Sport Booms in Canada, Delegates Hear". Lethbridge Herald. December 9, 1922. p. 11.
  25. ^ "Pro. Coaches Are To Be Allowed". Lethbridge Herald. December 21, 1922. p. 6.
  26. ^ Levine, Allan (February 7, 2014). "Canada Put Stamp on Olympic Hockey in 1924". Winnipeg Free Press. p. 11.
  27. ^ "President's Report: P. J. Mulqueen". The Winnipeg Tribune. September 27, 1924. p. 18.
  28. ^ Allen, W. G. (March 19, 1932). "Snapshots on Sport". Winnipeg Free Press. p. 21.
  29. ^ Allen, W. G. (May 8, 1936). "Snapshots on Sport". Winnipeg Free Press. p. 17.
  30. ^ Dulmage, Elmer (July 20, 1936). "Mulqueen Off To Attend His Seventh Olympiad". Lethbridge Herald. The Canadian Press. p. 8.
  31. ^ "Organization of Olympic Forces and Funds Proposed". The Winnipeg Tribune. November 20, 1936. p. 19.; "Amateur Meeting (Continued from Page 19)". The Winnipeg Tribune. November 20, 1936. p. 28.
  32. ^ "Olympic Chairman Has His Reply To Plaxton Criticism In House". The Brandon Daily Sun. January 21, 1937. p. 3.
  33. ^ "Mulqueen Puts Blast On Paxton". The Winnipeg Tribune. January 22, 1937. p. 16.


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