Career
James Dunn was playing minor league hockey during the outbreak of World War I. In 1916, he enlisted at the age of 17 and returned from the war crippled with trench foot. Unable to play he became involved in the administrative world of hockey promoting a number of teams to the Manitoba Amateur Hockey Association in 1927.
From 1921 to 1947 Dunn was employed as the chief secretary and convenor for the MAHA. The following year he was promoted to vice president and three years later began a six-year tenure as president. In the 1950s Dunn found himself with the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, working his way up from second vice president to first vice president until reaching president status in 1955.
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