Badminton Canada Jack Purcell

On my walk through Mt. Pleasant Cemetery and nearby Mount Hope Cemetery, both tucked into midtown Toronto, I found myself reunited—with two Canadian sporting greats: tennis champion and Davis Cup stalwart Gilbert Nunns, and badminton legend–turned–shoe designer Jack Purcell. Nunns’ story begins far from these Toronto paths. Born in Leeds, England, he grew up in […]