Ivan Temple was one of the greatest hockey "builders" Victoria ever had. In the early 1940's, at the short-lived Willows Arena, Ivan was a co-founder of Victoria Minor Hockey and after fire destroyed that building he kept hockey going by driving Victoria's keenest players to Nanaimo. With the opening of Memorial Arena, Ivan served as president of the Senior Amateur Association for 12 years and began his involvement with the B.C. Hockey Association. As three-term president and long time secretary-manager, Ivan pioneered the use of helmets in minor hockey, introduced Mutual Aid Insurance and the idea of a Minor Hockey Week as well as many innovative rule changes. He had an unbending attitude about rules and violence in hockey and worked long and hard for the well being of every young player in the game. His career spanned nearly 60 years and by the time of his death in 1976, he had been made a life member of the B.C. Amateur Hockey Association and earned the Diamond Stick, the highest honour bestowed by the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association.

The 1970 Victoria Centennials were the Canadian Senior Men's baseball champions. The team was made up of Bob Lumley (Mgr.), George Fuller, Doug Hill, Dave Morgan, John Yankoski, George Brice, Mike McAvoy, Bob Mabee, Keith Todd (Coach), Stan Gibb, Pete Jolley, Mike Embury, Russ Holmes, Barry Harvey, Gordy Strongman, Terry Whitman, Jerry Lister, Bill Campbell, Larry Webster, Les Brice, Art Worth, Dave McKay, Murray Gage-Cole, and Lorne Bunyan. The highly talented Victoria Centennials came out of local little league and minor baseball to the Athletic Park men's league and dominated Canadian amateur baseball in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The Centennials, what the senior 'A' all-star team called itself, represented B.C. five times at the Canadian championships, making it to the national championship game three times and winning it in 1970. This was the era before there was a national team, so a provincial club champion represented Canada at the world championships. The Centennials' 1970 national title meant they were off to represent Canada at the 1970 world championships in Cartagena, Colombia and the 1971 Pan-American Games in Cali, Colombia.