Percy Williams: The Worlds Fastest Man
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Percy Williams: The Worlds Fastest Man
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City of Vancouver Archives Port P.85,N.34 (Gaslights to Gigawatts CD 0963 - 40)
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In 1928, Percy Williams won worldwide fame and became the darling of Vancouver sport-lovers when he won the 100 and 200 metre events at the Olympic Games in Amsterdam. For BC Electric employees, Williams "brilliant and sensational dual victory" was especially exciting - as the BC Elecric Employees Magazine proudly reported - because:
"His numerous admirers in the company will hold him in all the more affectionate regard when they learn that he himself is an old BC Electric Railway employee (who worked on the Bridge River survey crews). At Amsterdam Percy came up against the crack athletes of the world, but easily won in these two events. He has alwasys dispayed great promise as an athlete."
The proudest employee of all was Percy's father, Fred Williams, a trouble shooter at BCE's Prior Street car barns.
"His numerous admirers in the company will hold him in all the more affectionate regard when they learn that he himself is an old BC Electric Railway employee (who worked on the Bridge River survey crews). At Amsterdam Percy came up against the crack athletes of the world, but easily won in these two events. He has alwasys dispayed great promise as an athlete."
The proudest employee of all was Percy's father, Fred Williams, a trouble shooter at BCE's Prior Street car barns.
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