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Presents Jim Riddell’s Sports Talk

with Area Senior Stewart Begg

Championships to Langley, BC.
Stewart has been made a lifetime
member of several organizations
and has received numerous awards
including the Queen’s Jubilee Medal,
the RCMP Long Service Medal,
By Jim Riddell
the Alberta Emergency Services
Medal, and the Canadian Lacrosse
tewart Begg began his long career Association’s highest honor, the
Sofficiating lacrosse in Cornwall
Lester B Pearson Award.
in 1962. He then went on to work
at the sport’s highest level including In 1959, Dan Begg (Stew’s father),
thirteen National Championships. Bill Campbell, Colin Chisholm,
Mohawk Associates, and a few
Since 2001 Stewart has been other locals started a minor lacrosse
Chair of Officiating for the Canadian
program in Cornwall. Dan Begg
Lacrosse Association and during was the president of minor hockey
that time, he assessed more than two
in Cornwall at the time and he was
thousand officials locally, nationally, asked to be president of the lacrosse
and internationally. In 1969, Stewart program as well. “My dad came to
attended the First Summer Canada
me one day and told me that because
Games in Halifax, in 2007 Stewart was of the Native tradition on Cornwall
the Referee in Chief at the Federation
Island, they were starting lacrosse
of International Lacrosse in Halifax, in Cornwall and asked me if I would
and in 2011 he was Referee in Chief like to play. I didn’t know very much Photo Submitted
at the World International Lacrosse
about lacrosse, but I agreed to play.
Championship held in Prague Czech There was easy access to quality
Republic. In 2019, Stewart was the
lacrosse sticks from the Mohawk
lead person in the Canadian group factory - my first stick cost me 75
that brought the World Lacrosse
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