"She just seemed to grow up with a tennis racquet in her hand," recalled an old Victoria neighbour. He remembered her as a young girl practicing her howitzer serve and overpowering forehand on the family's private court. Marjorie would go on to dominate the tennis world and won more than 100 silver cups throughout her career. She began her all-encompassing domination of women's tennis at the age of 12, when she captured her first of four successive B.C. girls' under-16 titles. Marjorie first won the B.C. women's singles championship in 1923 and was voted the outstanding tennis player in the province that year. She repeated in 1924, 1925, 1926, 1930 and 1931. In 1925 she won everything there was to win in Canada. As usual, she won the B.C. singles, doubles and mixed doubles. She then made headlines across the country with the rare triple sweep-winning the Canadian women's singles and doubles title (the latter with Helen Tatlow) and the mixed doubles (with John Proctor of Victoria). She won the Canadian women's singles title again in 1926 and 1927, and with her sister, Hope, the Canadian doubles title in 1930 and 1932. Marjorie also went to the U.S. Open at Forest Hills in 1932, making it to the third round of the singles before losing.

Lester Patrick was the most important influence in the history of hockey in Victoria, Vancouver Island, and both nationally and internationally because of his role in the development of the National Hockey League. Patrick's vision in the early days of the 20th century incorporated a view of the game of hockey that was both entertainment and profit. The Patrick family established the Pacific Coast Hockey League and built the first artificial ice rink in Canada, here in Victoria, in 1911. By 1914, the Stanley Cup became an East West event between the Pacific Coast Hockey League and the older National Hockey Association. Lester would go on to be a driving force in the game of hockey in Canada until his death in 1960. He inaugurated the farm system, originated the playoff system, introduced the concept of changing "on-the-fly" and he engineered the sale of five of the six professional hockey teams in western Canada to the NHL in 1926. Today, one of the NHL's four divisions, the Patrick division, recognizes the outstanding significance of Lester's contributions over nearly half a century.