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Alexandrine Gibb
Alexandrine Gibb, also known as Alex Gibb (born Toronto 1891 – 1958), was a pioneer in women’s sports during the twentieth century. Gibb advocated for women’s branches of sports across Canada and was involved in many women’s organizations. She was a sports journalist for the Toronto Daily Star, where she wrote a daily column entitled “No Man’s Land of Sport” and worked for over thirty years.〔M. Ann Hall, “Alexandrine Gibb: In ‘No Man’s Land of Sport’” in Freeing the Female Body: Inspirational Icons, ed. by Fan Hong and J. A. Mangan (Portland: Frank Cass Publishers, 2001), 149.〕
==Biography==
Alexandrine Gibb was born in Toronto, Ontario to Sarah and John Gibb in 1891. Her mother, Sarah Sparks, was the daughter of an early Great Lakes captains, Captain James Sparks. John Gibb, her father, owned a dairy. Both were active members in the Queen East Presbyterian Church in Toronto. They married in 1879, and had six children: Alex was the fourth.〔M. Ann Hall, “Alexandrine Gibb: In ‘No Man’s Land of Sport’” in Freeing the Female Body: Inspirational Icons, ed. by Fan Hong and J. A. Mangan (Portland: Frank Cass Publishers, 2001), 149-150.〕
She grew up in Toronto and attended Morse Street School. Following this, she went to Havergal College, a private girls’ school in Toronto, at the time the most athletically advanced female private school in Ontario.〔M. Ann Hall, “Alexandrine Gibb: In ‘No Man’s Land of Sport’” in Freeing the Female Body: Inspirational Icons, ed. by Fan Hong and J. A. Mangan (Portland: Frank Cass Publishers, 2001), 150.〕 In 1913, she graduated from Havergal at the age of 22.〔Bruce Kidd, “Girls’ Sport Run By Girls” in The Struggle for Canadian Sport (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1943), 111.〕
After graduation, she was a secretary for the Gibson Brothers. During WWI and the expansion of the industrial economy, she continued her career as a secretary in a Toronto mining broker’s office. She was set to marry Lieutenant Harry Dibble, a Canadian infantryman; however, he was killed during WWI.〔Hall, “Alexandrine Gibb: In ‘No Man’s Land of Sport’,” 150-151.〕

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