Athlete, wholesale grocer.
Born at Pontiac, Michigan on 2 September 1932, eldest of three children born to Holmfred “Fred” Ingaldson (1907-1968) and Helen Czerniewicz (1910-1976), he grew up in North End Winnipeg where his parents owned a grocery store. As a young boy, he helped out in the store but also had time to play basketball with his friends. He first played organized basketball at Isaac Newton High School from 1948 to 1952, and in his senior year was named Outstanding Athlete.
Upon graduating in 1950, he joined the Winnipeg Light Infantry basketball team and was part of the squad that won the national junior championships in 1952 and 1953. He caught the attention of the Montana State University Bobcats and played there until 1956 on an athletic scholarship, the first Manitoban to play in the NCAA Division I. He was known for his ability to score and was an All-Conference selection, heralded as the school's most outstanding basketball player in his graduating year. In 1959, he was part of Canada’s basketball team for the Pan American Games in Chicago.
Returning to Winnipeg after his post-secondary education, he went on to play for various basketball teams, including the Senior "A" St. Vital Bulldogs, the Tillsonburg Livingstons, and the St. Andrew's Super Saints, whom he accompanied when the group went on a tour of Cuba. He wore Canada's colours at the 1960 Rome Olympics and the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. He also suited up for Canada at the Winnipeg-based 1967 Pan American Games. After retiring from the sport, he became a coach and broadcaster. He was inducted into the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame (2000) and the Canada Basketball Hall of Fame {2002), at which time he was also nominated as Athlete of the Century.
He spent his working years as owner and operator of Winnipeg Wholesale Grocery and Confectionary Limited and Winnipeg Wholesale Vending Corporation, teaching many of his employees how to stock shelves, load trucks, fix vending machines, and relax with a cold beer when done.
On 23 November 1957, he married Beverley Lynne Sansome (daughter of Joseph Henry Sansome) at the Deer Lodge United Church and they had three children before divorcing in 1982. He spent many summers from the time he was 14 at the family lake cottage at Ingolf, Ontario. In his later years there, he enjoyed listening to recordings of Frank Sinatra and fishing off the end of the dock.
He died on 8 August 2011 and was buried in the Green Acres Memorial Gardens.
“Engagements,” Winnipeg Free Press, 2 November 1957, page 8.
Obituary [Holmfred Ingaldson], Winnipeg Free Press, 10 July 1968, page 40.
Obituary [Helen Ingaldson], Winnipeg Free Press, 13 December 1976, page 73.
Fred Einar Ingaldson, Dignity Memorial.
This page was prepared by Lois Braun.
Page revised: 13 December 2025
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