A member of the 1931-1932 Sudbury Wolves Memorial Cup winning team who spent much of his youth in Coniston, Toe Blake would go on to star as a forward with the Montreal Maroons / Montreal Canadiens, a key member of the “Punch Line” (with Rocket Richard and Elmer Lach). Blake would register 527 points in 522 NHL games, inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1966.
He was a member of three Stanley Cup winning teams, as a player, but would then go on to guide the Montreal Canadiens to no less than eight Cups during his 13 years as head coach of the team, earning the Order of Canada in 1988 and passing in 1995.
Miscellaneous: Though raised in Coniston, Blake was born in Victoria Mines (now a ghost town out near Fairbanks Lake Road) and would have the arena in Coniston named in his honour in 2011