Ranjit Dillon in action

Ranjit Dillon

Ranjit Dillon used his remarkable foot speed and outstanding stick skills to emerge as one of the greatest lacrosse players in the history of the sport, not only in Victoria, but B.C. and Canada. His debut as an underage junior call-up was electrifying and he helped lead the Victoria Junior Shamrocks to the 1962 Minto Cup championship. The next year, Ranjit's fleet feet paced the Juniors to the Cup finals again but the Oshawa Green Gaels proved too tough. However, nothing was going to stop Ranjit's skills from carrying him to the platinum level of his sport. Although the Dillon brothers were the shining stars of some struggling Shamrocks teams of the 1960s, it was only as a pickup that Ranjit made it to the Mann Cup national finals with the New Westminster Salmonbellies. However, Ranjit's career ended with a fitting finale, indeed, when he retired in 1979 after the Shamrocks won their first Mann Cup national title in 22 years. What a storybook ending to a storybook career at Memorial Arena! It couldn't have been scripted any better. In a brilliant Western Lacrosse Association career from 1966 to 1979, Ranjit scored 450 goals and amassed 788 assists for 1,238 points in a club record 443 games for the Victoria Shamrocks. He was acclaimed for his achievements by being inducted into the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame and now takes his well-deserved place in the Greater Victoria Sports Hall of Fame.

Ernie at his computer

Ernie's "work" for over 50 years was an extremely enjoyable career as a journalist, newspaper sports reporter and outdoors columnist. He launched his career as a sports writer, at the age of 17, with the Edmonton Bulletin. When the thriving daily's life ended, Fedoruk moved on, to become Sports Editor in Timmins Ont. and also spent time with Canadian Press in Toronto. Not being a big-city fan, he returned west to learn the joys of writing and working for Tom Melville at the Regina Leader-Post. Then, discovering Victoria and salmon fishing, his nomadic days came to a grinding halt. Apart from fishing, curling and year-around golf, Ernie's lesser priorities were passed on to be newspaper reporter at the Times & Times-Colonist for 39 years, latterly as a five-a-week columnist serving Vancouver Island's outdoors sports readers. In "retirement" he continues to produce as a freelancer. Other involvements included; the Outdoor Writers of Canada, Northwest Outdoor Writers Association and he is the winner of 24 outdoor writing awards. Ernie received the 1993 Peter McGillen Award, OWC's highest honor. Today he is a member of the Canadian Journalism Federation's Greg Clark Award committee. Ernie's honors include life memberships in the V & D Golf, V-S Inlet Anglers and Victoria Fish and Game Associations; induction into the International Oldtimers' Hockey and Victoria Auto Racing halls-of-fame. Achievements include a Victoria Curling Club championship, high gun in Canada and second overall in the 1961 North American Media clay-bird championship and a 51-pound salmon.

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