Cyclone Taylor, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Cyclone Taylor

Canadian ice hockey player and civil servant

Date of Birth: 23-Jun-1884

Place of Birth: Tara, Ontario, Ontario, Canada

Date of Death: 09-Jun-1979

Profession: politician, ice hockey player, lacrosse player

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Cyclone Taylor

  • Frederick Wellington "Cyclone" Taylor, MBE (June 23, 1884 – June 9, 1979) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and civil servant.
  • Playing as a cover-point and rover, he played professionally for the Portage Lakes Hockey Club, the Renfrew Creamery Kings, the Ottawa Hockey Club and the Vancouver Millionaires from 1906 to 1922.
  • Acknowledged as one of the first stars of hockey, Taylor was recognised as one of the fastest skaters and one of the most prolific scorers of his era.
  • He won five scoring championships in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association, and won the Stanley Cup twice, once in 1909 with Ottawa and again in 1915 with Vancouver.
  • He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1947. Born and raised in Southern Ontario, Taylor moved to Manitoba in 1906 to play hockey.
  • He quickly moved to Houghton, Michigan and spent two years in the International Hockey League, the first openly professional hockey league in the world.
  • Returning to Canada in 1907 he joined the Senators, playing for them for two seasons.
  • In 1909 he signed with Renfrew, becoming the highest paid athlete in the world on a per-game basis, before moving to Vancouver in 1912, finishing his career in 1922. Upon moving to Ottawa in 1907 Taylor was given a position within the federal Interior Department as an immigration clerk, and maintained a position throughout his hockey career and after.
  • In 1914 Taylor was the first Canadian official to board the Komagata Maru, a major incident relating to Canadian immigration.
  • Rising to Commissioner of Immigration for British Columbia and the Yukon, the top position in the region, Taylor was named a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1946 for his services in immigration, and retired in 1950.

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