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	Ned Hanlan -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Edward "Ned" Hanlan (1855-1908) was a professional (Someone who rows a boat) rower from (The provincial capital and largest city in Ontario (and the largest city in Canada)) Toronto, (A nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada) Canada.
		Hanlan's father was a hotelkeeper on (additional info and facts about Toronto Islands) Toronto Islands, and young Hanlan used to row several kilometers across the harbour, to go to and from school every day.
		Hanlan had a (additional info and facts about steam tugboat) steam tugboat named after him.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/ne/ned_hanlan.htm (172 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		It hired a trainer, James Heasley, and undertook to manage Hanlan’s races, leaving him free to “row, eat, exercise and sleep.” The club’s first decision was to purchase a sleek English-made shell from Loudon (who wisely switched from singles competition to doubles) and equip it with two recent innovations, a sliding seat and swivel oarlocks.
		Hanlan, who was only 5 feet 8 3/4 inches tall, weighed a mere 150 pounds in most of his races, yet his powerful stroke enabled him to beat larger, stronger men.
		Hanlan’s friends put the blame for the loss on a second bout with typhoid, the debilitating effects of almost eight months of foreign travel, and a near collision during the race with a chartered steamer, but the muscular flsmith was an exceptional opponent.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=40886&query= (2596 words)

	CEC: Closed Canadian Parks - Hanlan's Point
		Hanlan's was still the more popular though, and that same year, the city leased a 150-metre stretch of lake front there for bath houses.
		However, considering Ned Hanlan's rowing profession, it is likely that the course would have been put in by him at the time he invested in a new hotel in 1880.
		It appears that the Hanlan's train was the Herschell model and that it was likely installed for the 1896 or 97 season, which fits nicely with the opening of the freshly enhanced park.
	cec.chebucto.org /ClosPark/HanPoint.html (5870 words)

	Ned Hanlan - Argonaut Rowing Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Hanlan also possessed great technique, and is to this day regarded as one of the greatest skullers of all time.
		Hanlan quickly built up a lead of two boat lengths and held Trickett at that distance for the remainder of the race.
		Hanlan was a first class athlete who enjoyed a long career.
	www.argonautrowingclub.com /nedhanlan (612 words)

	Rowing Canada -- Canada Aviron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Ned Hanlan was the son of Irish immigrants.
		Hanlan was not the first to use the sliding seat, but he was the first to master it, and Ross was the first prominent sculler to suffer defeat when he failed to follow this style.
		Hanlan was clearly made of the superior material of champions, but the same could not be said of the manner in which championships were conducted, as was demonstrated by his experiences against a young American sculler by the name of Charles Courtney.
	www.rowingcanada.org /en/sport/history.html (10509 words)

	Cage By Page : The Boy in Blue Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Ned is definitely a working class young man, rare in the sport of rowing and his presence and boisterous behaviour come some-what of a shock to his peers.
		Ned is pulled aboard and it is not long before he realises he has been played and is now on his was to Rochester, U.S.A. on their way to Philadelphia.
		Ned finds himself in a sport that is dominated by rich upper-class people, and it is quite clear that he is not at all comfortable with this nor does he understand their some-what 'snobby' tendancies.
	www.cagebypage.com /abouthismovies/reviews/the_boy_on_blue.html (1005 words)

	New Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In l879, Ned Hanlan was the undisputed master of rowing in North America.
		Hanlan and the Australian giant (Trickett stood 6 feet, 4 inches and outweighed the Canadian bantam by at least 50 pounds) rowed over the historic Thames championship course, a distance of 4 miles, 440 yards.
		Ned Hanlan died in Toronto on January 4, 1908.
	www.sarasotascullers.com /nedhanlan.htm (519 words)

	Canadian Portaits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Hanlan grew up on Toronto Island and it was there, in 1873, that he became amateur champion oarsman of Toronto Bay.
		Hanlan's single shell, The Cigarette, was equipped with a seat on rollers to increase speed.
		In 1980, the Canadian government issued a postage stamp to commemorate the centenary of Hanlan's world championship; the design was based on yet another of the many portraits of Hanlan bought at the end of the last century by an awed and adoring Canadian public.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /portraits/docs/men/ec025318.htm (378 words)

	Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Ned Hanlan rowed to school across a lake everyday.
		Edward Hanlan traveled to all of the continents and most of the countries in the world to participate in races and give demonstrations.
		Edward Hanlan died in 1908, at the age of 52.
	grassroots.brunnet.net /albertms/twinschools3/biography.htm (1532 words)

	Professionals
		Fitzgerald, one of the judges, cautioned Hanlan to get out of the way, adding "You have done that on purpose," whereupon Hanlan replied in a manner that was exceedingly unbecoming, and continuing his course struck Plaisted’s boat with such force that at first it was thought the latter would have to give up the race.
		Hanlan and Ross were in their respective quarters when word came that the race would be rowed that day.
		Hanlan was tremendously successful in North America and the Trickett race was his opportunity to become World Champion and a lot of people could make a lot of money with his victory.
	www.rowinghistory.net /professionals.htm (7473 words)

	CNW Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Hanlan's Point is named for Hanlan's family who lived on the island and ran a hotel there.
		Hanlan died in 1908 at the age of 52.
		The artist of the Ned Hanlan monument, Emanuel Hahn, was born in 1881, in Wurttemberg, Germany.
	www.newswire.ca /en/releases/archive/June2004/12/c3966.html (567 words)

	RE-DEDICATION OF NED HANLAN MONUMENT
		Raised on the Toronto Islands, Ned Hanlan became a World Champion sculler in 1880.
		To honour his achievements, the City of Toronto erected a monument to Ned Hanlan carved by famed sculptor Emanuel Hahn in 1926.
		As compared to the traditional method of fixed seat rowing, this allows the 5 foot 8 inch, 150 pound Hanlan to use his legs to a much greater extent, get a much greater angle of motion with his oars in the water, and develop more power.
	www.toronto.ca /culture/hanlan_2004.htm (382 words)

	Toronto Beach
		Hanlan's point is derived its name from the Hanlan family.
		In 1878, a 25 room hotel was built by John Hanlan at the north west tip of the island, the site of the old family residence.
		Edward 'Ned' Ward, probably the most famous of the family, a world famous champion rower decided to spend some of his prize earnings and he built an enhanced hotel in 1880.
	www.torontobeach.ca /beaches/history_central.htm (1439 words)

	Canadiana \| Library
		Canada's first sports hero, Edward "Ned" Hanlan, the Toronto "Boy in Blue," was famous among sporting crowds on both sides of the Atlantic and as far away as Australia.
		During the race, Hanlan blew kisses to the crowd, and stopped to chat with spectators, wipe his brow, and fan himself.
		Then, when Trickett pulled alongside, Hanlan lifted his head, smiled to the spectators (who roared with appreciation) and easily rowed ahead, using alternate strokes of the oars.
	7thfloormedia.com /resources/canadiana/library/hanlan.html (408 words)

	Ned Hanlan - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Ned Hanlan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Ned Hanlan - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Ned Hanlan.
		Here you will find more informations about Ned Hanlan.
		Hanlan has been honoured with a postage stamp.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Ned-Hanlan.html (194 words)

	Ned Baker - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Ned Baker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Ned Baker - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Ned Baker.
		Ned Baker is a fictional name, not a fictional character.
		This name is used as a metasyntactic variable, or alias, used in place of a real name that will be supplied at a later time.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Ned-Baker.html (188 words)

	RESEARCH : : Mississauga heritage Foundation
		The name chosen for the community was Hanlan, in honour of famed Canadian oarsman Edward (Ned) Hanlan.
		Ned Hanlan was considered “the most renowned oarsman of any age”, and in a sense, was Canada’s first international sporting champion as he was declared the world’s rowing champion from 1880 to 1884.
		The only visible remains of the church, and indeed the hamlet of Hanlan, is the small Trinity Wesleyan Methodist Cemetery that sat immediately to the east of the church.
	www5.mississauga.ca /heritage/new/Hanlan.htm (728 words)

	Toronto Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Hanlan’s Point once a thin peninsula surrounded by water that the British had named Gibraltar Point upon their arrival back in the 1700’s is now named for Ned’s father, John, an Irish immigrant who first went to Owen Sound before arriving in Toronto.
		Hanlan’s today is least built up and most pastoral part of the Toronto’s Islands mostly because everything that at one time stood there was either burnt, demolished or moved away.
		In 1960 after the bulldozers razed the communities on Center and Hanlan’s the residents of the remaining Islands were wondering how they could ever be saved from the political bulldozer that not only was devastating Toronto Island but that too of the old downtown core back on the mainland.
	www.brucebelltours.com /html/toronto_island.html (2095 words)

	Ned Hanlan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		At age 21, in 1876, Hanlan won in the Philadelphia Centennial Regatta, on the Schuylkill River, against 15 professionals and established a new world’s record over a three-mile course for single sculls competition.
		Hanlan developed his own particular rowing style even though he never weighed more than 155 pounds during his racing career and was only 5’8” tall.
		Much lighter and shorter than many of his competitors, Hanlan became a most finished sculler with an exceptionally long slide, a smooth sweeping stroke, and a sharp clean “catch.” His every stroke seemed almost to lift his racing shell which nevertheless always travelled gracefully on an even keel.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /heirloom_series/volume4/82-83.htm (562 words)

	U of T Rowing Team (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Hanlan, Canada’s first world champion in sculling, had won his fame in the 1870s and 1880s.
		Hanlan was extremely popular in Canada because his success demonstrated that a young nation could be competitive on the world stage.
		If alive today, Hanlan, Loudan and their crews might have found strange and distressing the presence of women on the water, the lack of separate boathouses, and the (comparatively) lower profile, popularity and success of the current generation of U of T Rowing Teams.
	rowing.sa.utoronto.ca /history.html (1833 words)

	City of Toronto: Toronto Island Park
		In 1878, a hotel was built by John Hanlan at the north-west tip of the island and soon after the area became known as Hanlan's Point.
		Edward "Ned" Hanlan, probably the most famous member of the family, earned international recognition as a rower and held numerous world records.
		The role of Hanlan's Point as a centre of recreation declined after the 1930's when the stadium was closed and the Maple Leaf baseball team moved to a new facility at the foot of Bathurst Street.
	www.toronto.ca /parks/island (1318 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In 1880 a number of private and public challenges were issued, and the presence of Canadian world-beater Ned Hanlan in England made it a good year for rowing enthusiasts, as he not only defeated all who sculled against him, but did so with considerable grand-standing and playing to the crowd.
		Trickett began with a faster stroke than Hanlan, but he was sliding very short, and seemed to trust mainly to his immense strength to drive his boat along.
		The withdrawal of Hanlan from the contest was a general matter of regret.
	www.twsc.rowing.org.uk /virtual/www.twsc.rowing.org.uk/1880.html (1330 words)

	Solutions Evolution of Site
		From the beginning of the twentieth century, well into the 1930’s, the Hanlan’s Point community was the principal place of recreation and amusement for all of Toronto.
		It was named after the family of Ned Hanlan, the world’s greatest rower and Canada’s most famous athlete of his era.
		An impressive statue of Ned Hanlan has been consigned to virtual obscurity, facing a back parking lot in the CNE grounds.
	www.communityair.org /Solution_Evolution.htm (438 words)

	Information about Canada FDC: 17¢ Edward Ned Hanlan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In 1880, this idea was tested when Hanlan was matched against Trickett of Australia for the world championship race on the Thames.
		Their course, four and a half miles of choppy waters, did not hinder the agile Hanlan who was so far ahead of Trickett that he stopped occasionally to thank spectators for cheering him on.
		The crowd adored his entertaining antics and Hanlan won the race in a record time of twenty-six minutes and twelve seconds to become the first Canadian to ever win a world championship.
	www.unicover.com /EA4NB3TH.htm (456 words)

	Rabbit's guide to Rowing in the Movies
		Discovered by an amateur oarsman named Bill, Ned manages to get his paws on the first ever sliding seat sculling boat, and is propelled to fame when he wins a race on the Schuylkill in Philadelphia, beating his American opponent Plaistad.
		His win is a total upset, and brings Ned under the scrutiny of a wealthy man named Knox who plans to make lots of money from placing bets on Hanlan.
		Ned Hanlon may have been a Canadian hero in his time, but truth is the man was, well, a bit of a asshole.
	www.twrc.rowing.org.uk /movies/boyinblue.htm (544 words)

	Plaisted
		* Famed sculler, Ned Hanlan, was responsible for a great deal of fouling during the race.
		Plaisted was asked to pick a finish line judge and approached a fellow who said he never judged a race before.
		Hanlan agreed and Fred Plaisted was the winner with $600 in his pocket.
	www.rowinghistory.net /plaisted.htm (1047 words)

	15th Asian Games - Doha - 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Early races were usually contested by professionals, and heavy betting on races was common.
		The earliest recognised champion was Toronto's Edward "Ned" Hanlan, nicknamed "The Boy in Blue," because of his penchant for racing in a sky blue outfit.
		Hanlan has also been described as the first true world champion of any sport.
	www.dohaasiangames.org /en/asian_games_2006/sports/rowing_history.htm (461 words)

	The Boy in Blue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Ned Hanlon started out running illegal liquor, but was soon discovered by an opportunist, the first of many, that maneuvers circumstances so that Ned is forced into rowing in a race in America against his wishes.
		As you would have it, Ned wins many races, but at the mercy of gamblers bent on manipulating his future.
		Luckily, Ned falls for a smart young aristocratic girl who keeps him out of trouble and reluctantly falls in love with him to boot.
	members.aol.com /eursin/films/82-90/blue.htm (312 words)

	Athletes
		Hanlan had originally come to Australia that year, to give sculling exhibitions.
		This was to affect the balance of his stroke in future races and was possibly the downturn for Edward Trickett's rowing.
		Ned Hanlan was to go on and become one of the greatest rowers of all time.
	www.rowingaustralia.com.au /athletes_history2.html (3893 words)

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