Speed skater.
Born at Winnipeg on 1 January 1906, son of John Patrick Stack (1878-1946) and Florence May Atkinson (1883-1951), he won the western indoor speed-skating championship in Chicago in 1929. He set many records in the 1930s, including one for five miles which stood for years. He won bronze at the 1935 Olympics, then sat out the 1936 games. He finished fifth at the Olympics in Switzerland in 1948. He coached the 1960 Canadian Olympic speed-skating team. He was inducted into the Speed Skating Canada Hall of Fame (1965), Order of the Buffalo Hunt (1973), and Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame (1981).
He was married twice, first to May Emily Barnett (1911-1946) and they had a daughter. On 2 July 1948, he married Edith Nixon (1921-2018) at St. Paul's Anglican Church and they had a daughter.
He died at Winnipeg on 25 January 1987. He is commemorated by Stack Street in Winnipeg.
Birth registration [Frank Stack], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Death registration [May Emily Stack], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Obituary [May Emily Stack], Winnipeg Tribune, 26 August 1946, page 15.
“Edith Nixon weds Frank Stack in vesper hour ceremony,” Winnipeg Tribune, 5 July 1948, page 11.
“Olympian skater Frank Stack dies,” Winnipeg Free Press, 27 January 1987, page 47.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 28 January 1987, page 25.
Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by John M. “Jack” Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, December 1999, 288 pages.
Obituary [Edith Stack], Winnipeg Free Press, 22 September 2018.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
We thank Diane Stack for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 25 October 2026
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