Regional and Special Tournaments
From time to time, there have been special tournaments or regional Golden Gloves tournaments. One that operated from 1954 to the early Sixties was the Vancouver Island Golden Gloves. The first Vancouver Island Golden Boy was Victoria's Bert Wilkinson in 1954. Some of the history was documented in various issues of the "Vancouver Island Boxing News" in 1983, and the "BC Amateur Boxing News" between November 1983 and January 1986. Also, a poster of the 1954 tournament and a photo of Bert Wilkinson was recently used in a video for the induction ceremony of the Greater Victoria Hall of Fame held in November 2009.
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