wampBible | Civic and Other Honours

	Year	Type	Source	Recipient	Description
	1995	Individual	New Westminster Heritage Organization	Pete Anthony	Anthony Court named for Pete Anthony, Lacrosse Player
		Individual	New Westminster	Fred Hume	Hume Street named for Fred J. Hume, Mayor
	1885	Individual	New Westminster	William Irving	Irving Street Named for Capt. Wm. Irving, Councillor (now named Cunnigham Street)
	1913	Individual	New Westminster	Fred Lynch	Lynch Street Named for Fred J. Lynch, business man, Councillor and lacrosse player
	1909	Individual	New Westminster	Alex Turnbull	Turnbull Street Named for Turnbull family, probably Alex Turnbull prominent lacrosse player (Now Ninth Avenue)
		Individual	New Westminster	Fred Hume	Hume Park - after Frederick Hume - entrepreneur, Mayor of New Westminster (later Vancouver), lacrosse player and club president - inducted into both the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame and the Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame. Fred Hume played with the New Westminster Salmonbellies as a young man and became president of the club in the 1930s. He went on to break a nine year slump for the 1937 Salmonbellies Mann Cup Team (the first BC team to win the cup since the arrival of box lacrosse) by augmenting the team with eastern lacrosse players.
	1907	Noc	New Westminster		Sapperton Park The establishment of the Sapperton Junior Lacrosse Club in 1900 was the impetus for the creation of Sapperton Park. The project was spearheaded by a group of more than 75 local residents that included Sapperton pioneer Jack Cambridge, an avid sports enthusiast who worked as the Registrar at the New Westminster courthouse. Cambridge was the fi eld captain for the new team, while infl uential Nels Nelson, who operated the West-minster Brewery, was President. The lacrosse team played on a privately-owned, makeshift lacrosse fi eld, as there were no existing public parks in the city’s east end. Despite the lack of adequate playing facilities, the new team included many talented players, and scored many victories. It not only won the city’s junior lacrosse championship, but the support of nearly every resident of Sapperton as well. ... The site may have been offered for donation in 1903 to the citizens of Sapperton by the landowner. Later minutes record that the park was finally established in 1907 when Council granted the funds to clear the site in time for the lacrosse season.
	2013	Individual	Peterborough Examiner		Athletes honoured with [Peterborough] Civic awards Six members of the gold medal-winning U19 Ontario field lacrosse team — Jake Withers, Josh Currier, Zach Currier, Cameron Milligan, Todd Richard and Joe Hiltz — won the civic athlete award of merit
	2007	Team	Peterborough	Peterborough Jr. Lakers Lacrosse Team	Civic Athletic Awards of Merit Peterborough Jr. Lakers Lacrosse Team (members of team listed)
	2012	Individual	Canada	Jim Burke	Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal
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The establishment of the Sapperton Junior Lacrosse Club in 1900 was the impetus for the creation of Sapperton Park. The project was spearheaded by a group of more than 75 local residents that included Sapperton pioneer Jack Cambridge, an avid sports enthusiast who worked as the Registrar at the New Westminster courthouse. Cambridge was the fi eld captain for the new team, while infl uential Nels Nelson, who operated the West-minster Brewery, was President. The lacrosse team played on a privately-owned, makeshift lacrosse fi eld, as there were no existing public parks in the city’s east end. Despite the lack of adequate playing facilities, the new team included many talented players, and scored many victories. It not only won the city’s junior lacrosse championship, but the support of nearly every resident of Sapperton as well.

The site may have been offered for donation in 1903 to the citizens of Sapperton by the landowner. Later minutes record that the park was finally established in 1907 when Council granted the funds to clear the site in time for the lacrosse season.