Victor Emery is a Canadian businessman, gold medallist at the Olympic Winter Games and a world champion bobsledder. He was born in Montreal, Quebec. Involved in athletics from a young age, Emery was a graduate of the University of Western Ontario and the Harvard Business School where he earned an MBA. After attending the bobsleigh competition at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Emery decided to give the sport a try with the idea of achieving enough competency by 1959 to qualify for the World Bobsled Championships in St. Moritz, Switzerland. He and his brother John Emery helped establish the Laurentian Bobsleigh Association and recruited Peter Kirby and Doug Anakin to make up a four-man bobsled team. Although Canada had no bobsled training facilities or practise track and no organizations to support or train them, Emery's team performed dry-land runs in a Montreal gymnasium and practised a few times at the Lake Placid, New York bobsleigh run built for the 1932 Winter Olympics. Emery was the driver of the four-man bobsleigh team representing Canada at the 1959 world championships where their performance was less than stellar. [More at Wikipedia]

June 28th, 1933 in Montreal (Age 90)