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Marilyn Bell, (born October 19, 1937) is a retired Canadian long distance swimmer, born in Toronto. She was the first person to swim across Lake Ontario. October 19 is the 292nd day of the year (293rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Long distance swimming (also known as marathon swimming) is a form of open water swimming that involves swimming across large bodies of open water such as the Great Lakes, and the English Channel. ...
Lake Ontario, bounded on the north by Ontario and on the south by Ontarios Niagara Peninsula and by New York State, is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. ...
On September 8, 1954, Bell started her swim across Lake Ontario from Youngstown, New York to Toronto at virtually the same time as world famous American long-distance swimmer, Florence Chadwick. The Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) in Toronto had offered Chadwick $10,000 to swim the lake as a publicity effort for the annual exhibition. Bell, who felt the offer snubbed Canadian swimmers, took on the challenge without pay. After several hours, Chadwick was forced to give up with stomach pains and vomiting while 16-year-old Bell became the first person ever to swim the thirty-two-mile (52 km) distance when she arrived in Toronto the next day. (A third swimmer, Winnie Roach, also attempted the swim at this time but failed. September 8 is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years). ...
1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
For other places with this name, see Youngstown. ...
Florence May Chadwick (born November 9, 1918 – died March 15, 1995) was an American swimmer who was the first woman ever to cross the English Channel both ways. ...
Early CNE midway sign A pair of CNE Magic Passes Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) is an annual event held at Exhibition Place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ...
Bell swam for 20 hours and 57 minutes under grueling conditions before she finally reached a breakwater near the Boulevard Club, west of the CNE grounds. The planned route straight across the lake was 32 km (20 mi) but she actually had to swim twice that distance because of strong winds and the lack of modern navigation equipment. Waves that day were almost 5 m high, (up to 15 ft), water temperature was 21 °C (65 °F) and lamprey eels were attacking her legs. Lamprey is also the name of a song by Jimmy Buffett and the name of an album by Bettie Serveert. ...
Bell kept up her strength with Pablum, corn syrup, and lemon juice with water, along with heroic encouragement from her boat crew and her coach, Gus Ryder. Radio stations broadcast hourly reports of her progress and rival newspapers published “extra” editions throughout the day. When she finally arrived at about 8:15 p.m., a crowd of 300,000 people gave her an emotional welcome at Sunnyside Waterfront, now known as Marilyn Bell Park.
In 1955 she became the youngest person to swim the English Channel and in 1956 she swam the Strait of Juan de Fuca off the Pacific Northwest coast. Satellite view of the English Channel The English Channel (French: (IPA: ), the sleeve) is the part of the Atlantic Ocean that separates the island of Great Britain from northern France and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. ...
The Strait of Juan de Fuca separates Vancouver Island of British Columbia from the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state. ...
In 1954, Bell was named the Canadian Newsmaker of the Year by the Canadian Press. Bell was also inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1958. In 1993 she entered the Canadian Swimming Hall of Fame and was named one of Canada's top athletes of the century. In 2002, Bell (now Marilyn Bell Di Lascio) was presented with the Order of Ontario. A Canadian Newsmaker of the Year has been voted every year since 1946 by the Canadian Press. ...
The Canadian Press (CP) is a Canadian news agency established in 1917 as a vehicle to permit Canadian newspapers of the day to exchange their news and information. ...
Canadas Sports Hall of Fame is a Hall of Fame established in 1955 to preserve the record of Canadian sports achievements and to promote a greater awareness of Canadas heritage of sport[1]. As of June 2004, there were 436 inductees. ...
The Order of Ontario is an award given in the Canadian province of Ontario. ...
The story of Bell's historic swim was told in the 1999 made-for-TV film Heart: The Marilyn Bell Story with Caroline Dhavernas portraying Bell. Caroline Dhavernas (IPA:kɛɹalɪn dɑvɛɹnɑ) (roughly pronounced Daverna for English speaking audience but originally pronounced Davernaus (aus like house)) (born May 15, 1978) is a Québécois Canadian actress, best known as Jaye from the cancelled but immensely popular television series Wonderfalls on Fox. ...
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