From 1941-46, Carl served in the Canadian Army retiring with the rank of Captain.\u00a0 In 1944, his team out of Aldershot were Valley Senior Baseball Champs.<\/p>\n
In 1946, Carl Batted 0.325 with the Cards and 0.406 in their final series loss to the Truro Bearcats.\u00a0 From 1947-50, he performed admirably as the Card second sacker in the import-laden H & D League.\u00a0 Carl was also quite adept in curling, golf, hunting and fishing.<\/p>\n
In 1948, he established Bruce Motors Ltd., a successful Chevrolet-Oldsmobile dealership and operated it until retirement in 1993.\u00a0 Carl served as both Mayor and Town Councillor in Middleton, as the first Chairman of the Annapolis Vocational School, on the Board of Governors of Acadia University, with the Middleton Development Corporation and on both the Canadian and U.S. General Motors Dealer Councils as Eastern Canada Representative.<\/p>\n
Carl Bruce has served the Middleton area for well over sixty years, both on the playing fields and as a civic leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Carl Bruce was born in Wilmot.\u00a0 Carl excelled on some fine Middleton Junior teams from 1935 to 1938 as a center in hockey and as a slick fielding shortstop in baseball.\u00a0 After graduation from Macdonald School in 1938, Carl moved up to Senior ball with the Cardinals and played Varsity hockey and baseball at Acadia University until graduation in 1941.\u00a0 His Axemen Hockey team were Valley and Western N.S. Champs as well as Maritime Intercollegiate Champs in 1939- 40 and that team was later inducted into the Acadia Sports Hall of Fame.\u00a0 In 1940-41, as Axemen captain, Carl received the Cox Cup emblematic of excellence in intercollegiate athletics, extra-curricular activities and high scholastic standing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[110,25,31],"product_tag":[58,55],"class_list":["post-811","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-110","product_cat-athlete","product_cat-baseball","product_tag-58","product_tag-baseball","first","instock","shipping-taxable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.middletonshwof.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.middletonshwof.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.middletonshwof.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.middletonshwof.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.middletonshwof.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.middletonshwof.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.middletonshwof.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_brand&post=811"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.middletonshwof.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_cat&post=811"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.middletonshwof.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_tag&post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}