Commonwealth Games Baton Made a Stop in Burlington, M.M. Robinson Remembered

King’s Baton Relay stops here as city honours Commonwealth Games founder M.M. Robinson

Burlington used its stop on the King’s Baton Relay not only to celebrate sport but also to spotlight a local legacy: M.M. Robinson, credited with helping found what became the Commonwealth Games a century ago

Commonwealth Games baton made a stop in Burlington, M.M. Robinson remembered

For an hour Wednesday morning, the pavilion at Burlington’s Spencer Smith Park was the centre of the entire universe. The late M.M. ‘Bobby Robinson’, founder of the British Empire Games, grew up on a farm near what is today Mapleview Mall, Claire Carver-Dias, President of Commonwealth Sport Canada, pointed west to Joseph Brant Hospital where she was born and Mayor Marianne Meed Ward had to walk down Brant Street only one block for the King’s Bat…