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About John Beedell
- John Beedell (February 14, 1933 – December 18, 2014) was a New Zealand-born, Canadian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1950s into the early 1960s.
- He competed for Canada at the 1958 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Prague and at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.
- He was eliminated in the repechage round of the Men's C-2 1000 metres event at 1960 Olympics. Beedell spent his early childhood in New Zealand, England, and British Guyana.
- In British Guyana he contracted malaria, and was sent to live in Canada while recovering.
- His family joined him in Canada in 1941, and Beedell lived there for the rest of his life.
- He attended Queen's University, but dropped out after his first year in the engineering program.
- He was married in 1955.
- He and his wife Ann had three children: Michael, born in 1956; Jeffrey, born in 1958; and David, born in 1961.Beedell trained in Sudbury, Ontario as a runner and competitive canoer during this period, while holding a full-time job and helping to raise a family, and made the 1958 World Championship and 1960 Olympic teams.After the Olympics, Beedell completed his teaching degree and became a science teacher at Ashbury College in Ottawa.
- He also contributed to outdoor education by serving as director of the Ontario Camp Leadership Centre.
- He was an avid skier and runner, competing in more than 20 marathons around the world.
- In 1988 he suffered a serious brain injury as the result of a fall, which curtailed his physical and outdoor activities.
- He died in 2014, at the age of 81, after being struck by a school bus in the New Edinburgh neighbourhood of Ottawa.
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