For National Indigenous History Month, Bancroft This Week is highlighting an Indigenous woman from South Algonquin Township who blazed a trail playing professional baseball from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. Her name was Marion Bowers. Miriam (Marion) Susan Bowers-Laginski was born in Whitney, in South Algonquin Township in 1933, to Norman Bowers and Susan Sharbot Bowers, who was Indigenous. The National Torches also competed against the Men’s All-Stars in community fundraisers in addition to the roster of regular games they played. Bancroft This Week would like to extend a very special thank you to Roxane Manitowabi, Marion Bower’s daughter, who provided further details on her mother’s life and Judy Bowers, Marion Bower’s niece, who graciously provided the information about her aunt’s baseball playing career.

Source: thestar June 24, 2021 18:59 UTC