Dan Bain
Donald Henderson "Dan" Bain (February 14, 1874 – August 15, 1962) was a Canadian athlete and merchant. He was an all-around athlete, competing in ice hockey, roller skating, gymnastics, figure skating, golf, cycling and shooting among other sports. He was a member of the Winnipeg Victorias hockey team from 1894 until 1902 with whom he won the Stanley Cup twice as champions of Canada. He was also the national trapshooting champion in 1903. Bain was an inductee into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1949 and was also inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame, the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame and the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. He was voted Canada's top athlete of the last half of the 19th century.
He was a prominent Winnipeg businessman and community leader. He earned his fortune operating Donald H. Bain Limited, a grocery brokerage firm. Bain was an active member of numerous community associations, the president of the Winnipeg Winter Club and an avid outdoorsman. He built the Mallard Lodge, a building on the shores of Lake Winnipeg that endures today as a research facility at the University of Manitoba.
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