Sutherland Campbell "Suddy" Gilmour (1884 - February 12, 1932) was a Canadian

Canada

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 amateur athlete. He was a championship ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 player for the Ottawa Silver Seven of the 1900s. His brothers Billy Gilmour

Billy Gilmour

Hamilton Livingstone "Billy" Gilmour was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played for the Ottawa Hockey Club in the Canadian Amateur Hockey League...

 and Dave Gilmour also played for Ottawa at the same time.

Sports career

Gilmour played several sports, including rugby football with the Ottawa Rough Riders

Ottawa Rough Riders

The Ottawa Rough Riders were a Canadian Football League team based in Ottawa, Ontario, founded in 1876. One of the oldest and longest lived professional sports teams in North America, the Rough Riders won the Grey Cup championship nine times. Their most dominant era was the 1960s and 1970s, a...

, ice hockey and lacrosse. He also boxed. He participated in all sports as an amateur. He joined the Silver Seven in 1903, and played only two years of ice hockey, both championship years for Ottawa. Suddy scored the series-winning goal in the 1903 play-off against Montreal to win the Stanley Cup for Ottawa. According to Llewelyn Bate, one-time manager of the Ottawa Club, Suddie played "clean", unlike the rest of the team, which was known for its rough play.

Personal

Gilmour was the fourth son of five children. The other children were Bill, Dave, Ward and his sister Gilbert. Gilmour would marry Marjorie Louise Blair and they would have one son Blair and one daughter Audrey. He had several business interests, primarily construction contracting. He had retired from contracting several years before his death, which occurred after a six-month long illness.

Gilmour is buried at Beechwood Cemetery

Beechwood Cemetery

Beechwood Cemetery is the National Cemetery of Canada. Because it is located in Ottawa, Ontario, the nation's capital, it is the burial site for a number of statesmen as well as a large number of mayors of the city. A woodland cemetery founded in 1873, it is 160 acres and is the largest cemetery...

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