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Birth Name: Joseph Hector Blake
Date of Birth: August 21, 1912
Place of Birth: Victoria Mines, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Date of Death: May 17, 1995
Place of Death: Montréal, Québec, Canada
Ethnicity: French-Canadian
Toe Blake was a Canadian professional ice hockey player, and coach. A left wing, he played for the Montreal Maroons and the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was nicknamed “The Old Lamplighter.”
Toe was the son of Arzelie (Filion/Fillion) and Wilmer Blake.
Toe’s paternal grandfather was Eustache Blake (the son of Jean Baptiste Blake and Marie-Agathe Jolivet Lepine).
Toe’s paternal grandmother was named Christina Osbore.
Toe’s maternal grandfather was Francois Xavier Fillion (the son of Martin Fillion and Marie Louise Desjardin).
Toe’s maternal grandmother was Adeline Daoust (the daughter of Jacques Daoust and Marguerite Fortier).