Donald Carrick

Donald Day Carrick (1906 to 1997) was an Ontario lawyer, political figure, Olympic boxer and Canadian national golf champion. Born in Port Arthur, Ontario, he studied at the University of Toronto, Osgoode Hall Law School and Harvard Law School. He represented Canada as a light-heavyweight boxer at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, and won the Canadian Amateur golf championship in 1925 and 1927. He served as a lieutenant-colonel in the Canadian Army during the Second World War, and he sat in the House of Commons of Canada as a Liberal member for Toronto Trinity from 1954 to 1957, elected in a by-election after the death of Lionel Conacher. He was elected to the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame in 1997.