Veronica Clarke’s family pleased to see her enter Skate Canada’s Hall of Fame Globe_Sports
. The Toronto native is considered a pioneer in singles, doubles, and fours figure skating but retired from competition in her prime when she got married and moved with her husband to New Brunswick.
But in 1938 she married Dr. C.H. Bonnycastle, who shortly afterwards was named the new headmaster of the prestigious Rothesay Collegiate School in Rothesay, N.B. Moving away from Ontario’s competitive figure skating scene effectively brought Clarke’s career to an end. On two other occasions, wider recognition escaped Clarke: she was poised to compete for Canada in the 1936 Berlin Olympics but her mother refused to let her go abroad.
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