B-Say-Tah’s Harry Duckett, in the bow with his teammates, whose dreams of an Olympic medal in the 1940 Summer Games were dashed by the Second World War.
It has been 80 years since a rowing team from Saskatchewan almost represented Canada in the Summer Olympics, but the achievement is still remembered in and around B-Say-Tah. Harry Duckett and his crew of Jack Peart, Newt Hughes and Dick Priest won the Royal Canadian Henley Rowing Championship in 1938 and were to go to […]
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