Mary Dunn

Mary Dunn ( Armitage; February 7, 1903January 10, 1965) was a Canadian sports executive. She played on the Manitoba Bisons women's ice hockey team while in university, then became an executive with the Winnipeg Women's Senior Hockey League and the Manitoba Ladies' Hockey Association. She later served as vice-president, and then president of the Dominion Women's Amateur Hockey Association, where she arranged playoffs for the Canadian women's hockey championship. She was married to fellow sports executive Jimmy Dunn, and co-ordinated amateur sports for ladies as the vice-president then president of the Manitoba branch of the Women's Amateur Athletic Federation of Canada. She later served as president of the Winnipeg Community Chest, the Central Volunteer Bureau of Manitoba, and the Oriole Community Club in Winnipeg. Early life and education Mary Armitage was born on February 7, 1903, in the Rural Municipality of Roland, Manitoba. She grew up on the family farm southeast of the village of Roland as the youngest of two daughters to Robert and Annie Armitage who had English heritage. Armitage moved to Winnipeg in 1921, attended the Manitoba Agricultural College at the University of Manitoba, and was elected president of student athletics in 1924. She played as a centre on the Manitoba Bisons women's ice hockey team, and scored the winning goal in a 1926 Banff Winter Carnival semi-final game versus the Vancouver Amazons. Her team practiced with Andy Blair and other members of the Bison men's hockey team. She recalled in a 1938 interview that if a girl got in their way, the men "would just lift her up and dump her elsewhere". Journalist Jimmy Coo quipped that as a result, Armitage "got many a free ride".