Edward Pitblado

{{short description|British Canadian ice hockey player}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}} {{Use British English|date=October 2012}} {{Infobox person | name = Edward Pitblado | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1896|02|23|df=yes}} | birth_place = Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | death_date = {{death date and age|1977|12|02|1896|02|23|df=yes}} | death_place = Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | education = University of Manitoba<br/>University of Oxford | occupation = | father = Isaac Pitblado | module = {{Infobox ice hockey biography | embed = yes | halloffame = | height_cm = | weight_kg = | position = | shoots = | catches = | league = | former_teams = | played_for = British Olympic team (1924) | ntl_team = UK | medaltemplates= {{MedalSport | Men's Ice hockey}} {{MedalBronze | 1924 Chamonix | Team Competition}} | show-medals = }}}} '''Edward Bruce Pitblado''' (23 February 1896 – 2 December 1977) was a British-Canadian ice hockey player who competed in the 1924 Winter Olympics for Great Britain.

==Biography== Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Pitblado graduated from the University of Manitoba in 1920. His father, prominent lawyer Isaac Pitblado, was the chairman of the board of governors at the university from 1917 to 1924, and also was co-prosecutor of the seditious conspirators in the Winnipeg General Strike.<ref name=llt>'Labour / Le Travail' Journal of the Canadian Committee on Labour History: [http://journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/LLT/article/viewFile/5337/6206 "Legal Gentlemen Appointed by the Federal Government": the Canadian State, the Citizens' Committee of 1000, and Winnipeg's Seditious Conspiracy Trials of 1919-1920"]</ref>

After working briefly for his father's law firm, Pitblado went to the University of Oxford in 1922 on a Rhodes Scholarship. After being part of the 1924 British ice hockey team, he returned to Manitoba and received a law degree from the University of Manitoba in 1926.

Pitblado had a long and distinguished legal career, serving as president of the Law Society of Manitoba (1965-6). He was one of the incorporators of the University of Manitoba Alumni Association and served as president from 1929 to 1931. He was president of the Manitoba Fish and Game Association in 1935, and helped found the Canadian branch of Ducks Unlimited, serving as secretary of the organization from 1938 to 1974.<ref name=mbhs>{{cite web|url=http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/pitblado_eb.shtml|title=Edward Bruce Pitblado (1896-1977)|publisher=Manitoba Historical Society}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/collections/rad/pitblado_family.html|title=Pitblado Family Fonds|publisher=University of Manitoba|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090723062718/http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/collections/rad/pitblado_family.html|archive-date=2009-07-23}}</ref>

In 1928, he married Esther Jonsson, daughter of Reverend B. B. Jonsson. They had two children: James Pitblado and Janice Pitblado.<ref name=mbhs/> He died at Winnipeg on 2 December 1977 and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery.<ref name=mbhs/>

==External links== * {{icehockeystats}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070208181632/http://www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=PITBLEDW01 Olympic profile]

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