Kenneth Moore (ice hockey)

Kenneth Strath "Ken" Moore (February 17, 1910 – December 8, 1981) was a Canadian ice hockey player who competed in the 1932 Winter Olympics. He was born in Balcarres, Saskatchewan. He is the first indigenous person to win an Olympic gold medal.

For similarly named people, see Kenneth Moore.
Olympic medal record
Men's ice hockey
Representing  Canada
1932 Lake Placid Team

In 1932, he was a member of the Winnipeg Hockey Club, the Canadian team which won the gold medal. He played one match and scored one goal. Moore was one of Canada's first indigenous Olympians and a member of the Peepeekisis First Nation in Saskatchewan, although his parents were originally from Norway House First Nation in Northern Manitoba. He married Edith Mae McDougall and has one daughter, two granddaughters and one great grandson. He died in Winnipeg, Manitoba.


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