Sgt. Major John Victor RABBITTS Clb ^{3035,3737,5064,7063}

   Another name for John was Jack V. RABBITTS.⁵⁰⁶³

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Census: Household of Maxwell Rabbitts, 1911, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. ^222,5063 Record Transcription:
Canada Census 1911
Household Members
Members that resided in the household at the time of the census.
First name(s)Last nameSexBirth yearBirth placeRelationship to head of household
MaxwellRabbittsMale1881Newfoundland and Labrador, CanadaHead
GertrudeRabbittsFemale1884Ontario, CanadaWife
KathleenRabbittsFemale1910Ontario, CanadaDaughter
Fred. ERabbittsMale1880Newfoundland and Labrador, CanadaBrother
Jessie GRabbittsFemale1890Newfoundland and Labrador, CanadaSister In Law
Jack VRabbittsMale1909Newfoundland and Labrador, CanadaNephew
Muriel GRabbittsFemale1910Newfoundland and Labrador, CanadaNiece
JohnRabbittsMale1889Newfoundland and Labrador, CanadaBrother
Charles BKirkMale1870Ontario, CanadaEmployee
Maxwell Rabbitts's Census Details
Details taken from the original census record.
First name(s)Maxwell
Last nameRabbitts
SexMale
Birth year1881
Birth dateMay 1881
Birth placeNewfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Birth place as transcribedNewfoundland
Race or TribeScotch
Marital statusMarried
Relationship to head of householdHead
Year1911
Immigration year1900
Family number10
Subdistrict nameGillies Township, Lybster Township, Marks Township, Hymers Village
Subdistrict number7
District nameThunder Bay and Rainy River
District number123
ProvinceOntario
CountryCanada
FilmT-20399
Page number13
Image source
Image at Library and Archives Canada
Record setCanada Census 1911
CategoryCensus, Land & Substitutes
SubcategoryCensus
Collections fromCanada, Americas
© MyHeritage This event was shared from Maxwell RABBITTS who also shared it with Alfred Ernest Nelson RABBITTS (Household Member), Gertrude (Household Member), Jessie G. CLARK (Household Member), John RABBITTS (Household Member), Kathleen RABBITTS (Household Member), and Muriel G. RABBITTS (Household Member).

2. Residence: Living on uncle Maxwell's Farm, 1911, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. ⁵⁰⁶³

3. Census: 94 Pleasant St, 1935, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. ⁷⁰⁶³

4. Honours: Coached the 1940 CLB Intermediate Basketball Champions, 1940, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. ⁷⁰⁸⁶ From NGB website 100220:
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1940 CHURCH LADS BRIGADE (CLB) INTERMEDIATE BASKET BALL LEAGUE CHAMPIONS
BACK L-R: James SHIELDS, Trevor SNOW (Sec'y), Leslie BRIDGER, Sgt Major John V RABBITTS (Mgr & coach), Clarence WHEELER, Angus CRANE, Heber PURCELL.
MIDDLE L-R: Edgar ESCOTT, Robert MARSHALL(uncle), George MARSHALL (Dad: Captain), Chesley STEVENSON, Chester MERCER
FRONT (on floor) L-R: Max KIRBY (V. Capt), Leonard BENSON.

5. Census: Census of Household of Fred Rabbitts, 1945, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. ⁷⁰⁷⁰

6. Appointment: Assistant Director of Civil Defence, After 1945, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. ⁶³⁸

7. Honours: Inducted into Newfoundland Sports Hall of Fame, 2 Nov 1979, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. ^638,7087 Inducted November 2, 1979
John V. Rabbitts - Builder

A dedicated and enthusiastic sportsman, versatile in many fields of athletic endeavour, Newfoundland has known few if any to equal John Victor Rabbitts in terms of athletic achievement or one with a deeper sense of dedication to sport. He became actively associated with competitive sports in 1923 when, as a youth of 14, he joined the Church Lads Brigade. His association with the C.L.B. was to span a lifetime and involve him in many athletic contests always as a representative of the C.L.B. Throughout his career he distinguished himself in a wide range of disciplines. He was an oarsman, hockeyist, soccer player, basketballer, a tennis star, an incomparable bowler and a trackman of note. He captained the victorious C.L.B. soccer team of 1934, which won that memorable three-game playoff series against Holy Cross.

Jack Rabbitts, familiarly known by his initials J.V.R., devoted his entire life to the promotion and chronicling of sport. He served in many executive capacities both throughout his playing career, and later in retirement, he broadened those activities notably as an organizer. For his efforts in promoting Bowling, a pastime which was to become one of the most popular local recreational pursuits, he became known as 'Mr. Bowling'. He was no less active in other spheres of athletic endeavour. He was successful in stimulating interest in tennis notably among the young and became president of the Newfoundland Tennis Association. It was that body that placed his name in nomination as a candidate for Hall of Fame recognition.

J.V.R. was a dedicated sports enthusiast and meticulous researcher. Throughout his lifetime he wrote extensively for the local press always interestingly and ever with his well known enthusiasm in an effort to encourage greater sports participation. While Jack Rabbitts had a brilliant career as an athlete and merits recognition for his accomplishments in that sphere his athletic ability is overshadowed by his competence as a researcher and sports archivist. Throughout his lifetime he accumulated and preserved for posterity the most amazing collection of memorabilia dealing with our Newfoundland sports heritage which his widow Dorothy has generously bequeathed to the Newfoundland Sports Archives. Jack Rabbitts was indeed a Builder in every sense of the word.

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