View source for Elizabeth Hamilton (fencer)

{{Short description|Canadian fencer (1918–2011)}}
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| birth_name      = Elizabeth Florence Robson
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| birth_date      = August 10, 1918<ref name="Olympedia">{{Olympedia|20546}}</ref>
| birth_place     = [[Montreal, Quebec]], Canada
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| death_place     = [[Lethbridge, Alberta]], Canada
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'''Elizabeth Florence Hamilton''' (née '''Robson''', later '''Hale'''; August 10, 1918 – January 30, 2011) was a Canadian [[fencing|fencer]]. She competed in the women's individual [[foil (fencing)|foil]] event at the [[1948 Summer Olympics]].<ref name="sports-reference">{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/betty-hamilton-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418113931/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/betty-hamilton-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 18, 2020 |title=Elizabeth Hamilton Olympic Results |access-date=June 12, 2010 |work=sports-reference.com}}</ref>
Born and raised in Montreal, she was a daughter of Alfred Atkinson and Maud Robson; her father was killed in a 1921 workplace accident at the National Drug Company in which a boiler exploded.<ref>{{cite news|title=Magnesium Powder Thrown In Furnace Caused One Death|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27378517/the_gazette/|date=January 29, 1921|page=4|newspaper=The Gazette|location=Montreal, Quebec|access-date=January 18, 2019}}</ref> In 1943, she married future politician [[William McLean Hamilton]], the son of [[Ernest Hamilton (lacrosse)|Ernie Hamilton]], who competed in lacrosse for Canada at the [[1908 Summer Olympics]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Hamilton-Robson|date=June 21, 1943|page=15|newspaper=The Gazette|location=Montreal, Quebec|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27378102/the_gazette/|access-date=January 18, 2019}}</ref> She later married F. Earle Hale around 1953<ref>{{cite news|title=Touche-As Stars Meet|newspaper=The Province|date=July 31, 1954|location=Vancouver, British Columbia|page=26|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27379140/the_province/|access-date=January 18, 2019}}</ref> and attended [[McGill University]] to earn a [[Master of Library Science]] degree after which she worked as a librarian in Montreal. She moved to Lethbridge, Alberta in 1999 and died there in 2011 at the age of 92.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.crhfoundation.ca/caring_hearts/view.php?fund=85 |title=View a Tribute Fund &#124; Chinook Regional Hospital Foundation |publisher=Crhfoundation.ca |date= |access-date=January 19, 2019}}</ref>
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