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Past Winners & Race History


Six-mile Winners:

            2022         27:30*   Mustafa Izzeldin (NS/CAN)              30:55*  Colleen Wilson (NS/CAN)  
            2019        
30:36   Alex Neuffer (NS/CAN)                      37:23   Paula James (NS/CAN)
            2018         30:58   Matt McNeil - 4th win                         35:22   Michelle Reddy (NS/CAN)
            2017         30:24   Matt McNeil - 3rd win                         37:02   Colleen Wilson (ON/CAN)
            2016         29:58   Matt McNeil - 2nd win                        35:43   Erin MacLean Coates– 3rd win
            2015         30:36   Matthew McNeil (NS/CAN)               35:34   Erin MacLean – 2nd win
            2014         31:53 Graydon Snider (NS/CAN)                  35:06  Erin MacLean (NS/CAN)
            2013         32:18 Greg Wieczorek – 2nd win                  35:07 Lorraine Young (NC/USA)
            2012         31:53 Mattias Wolter (NS/CAN)                    35:24 Denise Robson - 6th win
            2011         31:35 Greg Wieczorek (NS/CAN)                 36:48 Rayleen Hill (NS/CAN)
            2010         31:32 Toby Hennigar (NS/CAN)                    35:22 Denise  Robson - 5th win
            2009         32:12 Rami Bardeesy - 2nd win                     35:08 Denise  Robson - 4th win
            2008         32:47 Rami Bardeesy (NS/CAN)                    36:01 Denise  Robson - 3rd win
            2007         31:42 Robert Jewer  (NS/CAN)                      34:35 Denise  Robson - 2nd win
            2006         31:30 Ken Myers (AB/CAN)                            34:21 Denise Robson  (NS/CAN)
            2005         33:31 Brent Addison  (NS/CAN)                    40:10 Celine Cournoyer  (NS/CAN)
            2004         31:52 Brian Chafe (NS/CAN)                          37:43 Heather Hennigar  (NS/CAN)
            2003         31:40 Brian Rae (CAN)                                     38:28 Seanna Decker  (NS/CAN)
            2002         30:55 Kirk Sabean (NS/CAN)                          35:53 Leslie Carson  (ON/CAN)
            2001         32:48 Peter Beazley - 6th win                          40:51 Erica Bowie  (NS/CAN)
            2000         33:29 Peter Beazley - 5th win                          38:28 Ena MacPherson  (NS/CAN)
            1999         33:41 Peter Beazley - 4th win                          42:45 Louise  LeDuc - 2nd win
            1998         32:55 Peter Beazley - 3rd win                          38:24 Sherry  Carson - 2nd win
            1997         34:31 Peter  Beazley - 2nd win                        40:25 Sherry Carson  (NS/CAN)
            1996         32:12 Peter Beazley  (NS/CAN)                       38:06 Louise LeDuc  (NS/CAN)
            1995         32:05 Luke MacDonald  (NS/CAN)                 40:59 Mary Lou LeClair  (NS/CAN)
            1994         32:03 Randy  Bullerwell - 3rd win                    39:35 Pam  Currie-Yarr - 8th win
            1993         32:43 Brian Rodgers  (CAN)                             38:26 Pam  Currie-Yarr - 7th win
            1992         32:24 Gerald Romme  (CAN)                           38:05 Pam  Currie-Yarr - 6th win
            1991         31:41 Randy  Bullerwell - 2nd win                   37:15 Janet Hoyt - 5th win
            1990         30:31 Randy Bullerwell  (CAN)                         35:42 Janet Hoyt - 4th win
            1989         32:08 Dan Kontak (CAN)                                   37:02 Janet Hoyt - 3rd win   
                                      + Dan  Soucoup (CAN)                            
            1988         32:00 Robert  Englehutt - 8th win                    36:59 Janet Hoyt - 2nd win
            1987         30:41 Bo MacGillivary - 2nd win                       36:54 Janet Hoyt  (NS/CAN)
            1986         31:05 Bo MacGillivary  (CAN)                            35:56 Rebecca Richards  (CAN)
            1985         31:04 Robert  Englehutt - 7th win                     36:15 Pam  Currie-Yarr - 5th win
            1984         30:52 Robert  Englehutt - 6th win                     36:42 Michelle Fraser  (CAN)
            1983         30:04 Robert  Englehutt - 5th win                     36:50 Pam  Currie-Yarr - 4th win
            1982         29:39 Robert  Englehutt - 4th win                     39:58 Pam  Currie-Yarr - 3rd win
            1981         30:43 Robert  Englehutt - 3rd win                     38:28 Pam  Currie-Yarr - 2nd win
            1980         29:51 Ted MacKeigan - 2nd win                        35:48 Kim Bird  (NS/CAN)
            1979         30:23 Ted MacKeigan  (ON/CAN)                     39:10 Pam Currie-Yarr  (NS/CAN)
            1978         31:15 Robert  Englehutt - 2nd win                     42:28 Debbie  Murphy
            1977         31:02 Robert Englehutt  (NS/CAN)
            1976         31:29 Roger  Miskowicz - 2nd win
            1975         34:55 Roger Miskowicz  (NS/CAN)
            1974         32:32 Harry Welles  (NS/CAN)
            1973         31:03 Bob Book - 3rd win
            1972         31:45 Bob Book - 2nd win                                     n/r   Barbara Muise  (NS/CAN)
            1971         31:29 Bob Book (NS/CAN)
            1970         29:58 Richard  Munro - 2nd win
            1969         31:07 Ray Will  (ON/CAN)
            1968         32:37 Richard Munro  (NS/CAN)
            1967         35:03 Randolph Barkhouse  (NS/CAN)
            1966         32:13 Gerald  Glyde - 3rd win
            1965          n/a    Gerald  Glyde - 2nd win
            1964          n/a    Gerald Glyde  (CAN)
            1963          n/a    Wayne Beazley  (CAN)
            1962          n/a    George  Gallant - 7th win
            1961          n/a    George  Gallant - 6th win
            1960          n/a    George  Gallant - 5th win
            1959          n/a    George  Gallant - 4th win
            1958          n/a    George  Gallant - 3rd win
            1957          n/a    George  Gallant - 2nd win
            1956          n/a    George Gallant  (NB/CAN)
            1955           n/a   Noel McKay  (CAN)
            1954           n/a   Leslie Beazley  (CAN)
            1953           n/a   Martin Dickworth  (CAN)
            1952           n/a   Stewart  MacMullan - 2nd win
            1951          n/a    Paul  Collins - 3rd win
            1950          n/a    Paul  Collins - 2nd win
            1949           n/a   Paul Collins  (CAN)
            1948          n/a    Stewart MacMullan  (CAN)
            1947           n/a   Dick  Carmichael - 2nd win
            1946           n/a   Dick  Carmichael (CAN)
            1945           n/a   George Stainton  (CAN)
            1944        33:43  L G Doiron  (CAN)
            1943           n/a    L A C Jeffery  (CAN)
            1942           n/a    Fred Bruhm (CAN)
            1941        31:20  Gerald  Rogers - 2nd win
            1940          n/a    Gerald Rogers  (CAN)
            1939           n/a    John Paul  (CAN)
            1938           n/a    Dick  Beazley - 2nd win
            1937           n/a    Clarence  Wright - 2rd win
            1936           n/a    Clarence  Wright - 2nd win
            1935        32:55   Clarence Wright  (CAN)
            1934          n/a     Dick Beazley  (CAN)
            1933          n/a     Miles Boutilier  (CAN)
            1932         n/a      Ray  Hamilton - 2nd win
            1931        32:44   Phil Hattie  (CAN)
            1930         n/a     Murray Andrews  (CAN)
            1929         n/a     George  Irwin - 2nd win
            1928        32:12  George  Carey - 2dn win
            1927       31:42   George Irwin  (CAN)
            1926       32:29   Ray Hamilton  (CAN)
            1925       32:52   Johnny Miles  (CAN)
            1924        37:41  George Carey  (CAN)
            1923       37:52   Donald Young  (CAN)
            1922         --
            1921       19:58   J L Fitzgerald  (CAN)
  1914-1920        —         not  held
            1913          n/a    Alf Rogers  (CAN)
  1911-1912          —       not  held
           1910          n/a      H R Palmer  (CAN)
           1909          —          not  held
           1908       1:52:12 Hans Holmer  (CAN)
           1907          32:22  Leander Lennerton  (NS/CAN)

        * The 2022 course was 5.4 miles instead of the usual 6 miles
Course Record Holders:
29:39     Robert  Englehutt     1982

34:21     Denise Robson          2006

Two-mile Winners (Recent Years):

            2022           9:05* Matthew Lawton (NS/CAN)                  9:57*  Paula James (NS/CAN)
            2019        
10:10  Jacob Benoit (NS/CAN)                      12:06   Madalyn Higgins (NS/CAN)
            2018         10:24   Corwin Trottier (NS/CAN)                  12:17   Eileen Benoit (NS/CAN)
            2017         10:24   Corwin Trottier (NS/CAN)                  11:46   Paula James (NS/CAN)
            2016         10:53  Owen Bishop (NS/CAN)                     12:13   Mikayla Boucher (NS/CAN)
            2015         10:47   Matthew White (NS/CAN)                 12:10   Morgan Hawkes (NS/CAN)
            2014         10:32   Andrew Peverill (NS/CAN)                12:29   Ellen Taggart (NS/CAN)

Race History:

Amazingly, the Dartmouth Natal Day Road Race is one of the longest running road races in North America! Although there there were a few years during the wars and Covid when no race was held, there has been a Natal Day race in Dartmouth since 1907. Our race even shares a small connection with the most famous of all North American races, the Boston Marathon.

In 1907, 17 year old Dartmouth native Chris Wolfe ran the Boston Marathon and finished 23rd out of 102 starters. On his return home he was presented with a silver tankard and congratulations from both the mayor and the city council. Our local boy’s success clearly helped “jump-start” Dartmouth’s enthuiasm for the sport, as it was that same year that the Natal Day committee decided to add a road race to the program.

The race was originally run from Dartmouth to Woodlawn and back into town. The exact course of the inaugural event is not known, but it likely followed a path similar to the route through Woodlawn that was used in most  succeeding years until 1977.  The winner of the first Natal Day Race was Leander Lennerton. Not much is known of his life in Dartmouth, but his race results tell us he was quite a runner: the same year he won the Natal Day race Lennerton finished second in the Thanksgiving Day 10 mile race  that was run from Bedford to Halifax. Later that year, he travelled to Montreal to run a 15 mile “marathon” and finished thirteenth out of seventy-five runners. He returned home in time to run the Mayor’s Cup six mile race in Dartmouth where he also finished second.

In its second year, the Natal Day race was run on a longer course from Halifax to Dartmouth through Bedford and what is now know as Burnside. Following the crack of the starter’s pistol, spectators rushed to catch the ferry to Dartmouth to cheer on the finishers. That must have been a race in itself! The winner that year was Hans Holmer. Incidentally, he was the same runner that beat Lennerton to win the Mayor’s Cup the year before.

The records of early road races in Dartmouth are spotty, but we do know that from this point until the late 1970s the race was run from downtown Dartmouth to Woodlawn. In 1977 the course was changed to its current form, providing a short but challenging “Tour-de-Downtown Dartmouth.” First, the start was at the Somme Branch Legion Hall. Later years saw it move to the old Town Hall on Ochterloney Street,  the fire hall just off Ochterloney, and finally, to its current home at Christ Church Hall.

Do you have a tidbit of Natal Day race history or historic Natal Day Road Race photos we can add to our page? If you have something you think we should know please send it to us.


Historic Trophies:

The Dartmouth Natal Day Races present several major trophies each year. These prestigious awards date back as far as 1923 and help tell the history of the races.

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The Evening Mail Trophy was first awarded to the winner of the Dartmouth Natal Day 6 Mile Race in 1923. It has been won by runners you may of heard of, such as Johnny Miles (1925), George Gallant and Bob Book.

In more modern times it has been won by runners such as Robert Englehutt, Peter Beazley, Rami Bardeesey, Greg Wieczorek and Matt McNeil.
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The William Best Bailey Trophy is awarded to the top female finisher in the 6 Mile race. The names of Pam Currie-Yarr, Janet Hoyt and Denise Robson appear on this trophy a total of 19 times.
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