Lorne Howland Carr-Harris was a British ice hockey player who competed in the 1924 Winter Olympics.
Background
They had several children including a son, Robert Carr Harris, who was born in 1843. His father Professor Robert-Carr-Harris (1891–1936) met his future wife Ellen Jane Fitton Carr-Harristhe daughter of local entrepreneur and land owner R. W. Fitton, Esquire, Doctor of Medicine
Education
Born in Kingston, Ontario, he joined the British Army and graduated from the Royal Military College of Canada in 1917.
Career
In 1875, the couple resided at Somersetvale Bathurst, a 2000-acre estate. The couple purchased the Somerset Vale farm and Robert Carr Harris became a business man running a sawmill at the mouth of Carter"s Brook on the west side of the Bathurst Harbour. Robert-Carr-Harris patented the “Railway Screw Snow Excavator” Snow blower in 1870.
Robert-Carr-Harris was professor of civil engineering at Royal Military College of Canada1879 and afterward professor of general engineering at Queen"s University.
Lorne"s brother Captain Ernest Dale Carr-Harris, R.E. was killed in action in Tanzania, Africa on November 3, 1914. One daughter, Mistress J. A. Gunn, livef at Cairo, Egypt.
Professor Carr-Harris married, secondly, June 6, 1896, Mission Bertha Wright, of Ottawa. Born in Kingston, Ontario, he joined the British Army and graduated from the Royal Military College of Canada in 1917.
Carr-Harris served with the British army and was posted to India for 13 years.
He was stationed in the United Kingdom in 1924. The British Army hockey team formed the backbone of the British team at the Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France. The Carr-Harris Cup is an annual varsity hockey game between the Royal Military College of Canada and Queen"s University in Kingston, Ontario.