Each province of Canada has developed for itself a sport tradition, and New Brunswick is no exception. Part of this tradition is linked to our long winters of frozen rivers, lakes and ponds and to the inevitable flashing blades of the Gormans, the Drillions and Lambs, the Hawks of Moncton, and Harry Smyth. Charles Henry Smyth of Moncton, the youngest world champion inductee to date, won his first speed skating championship in 1922 at the age of twelve and his last some twenty-one years later. But it was as a sixteen year old that he had his finest hour, for in 1926 he was a City, Provincial, National, International and World Champion with victories from Saint John to Saranac and from Toronto to Detroit in the 440, 880, and one mile races. There were so many other great moments and victories - but surely one of these must have been his point-scoring role as a member of Canada's 1932 Olympic Games Team, and another, the time he received from movie actress Norma Talmadge a pair of engraved skates for winning the champion of the world in Saint John. Enrolled in the New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame, June 2, 1973.