Like most Burnaby boys in the 1940s and ’50s, Alex Carey played several sports, excelling at many of them like baseball, soccer and basketball. But the one to stick (pun intended) was lacrosse. And it was his sleight of stick that earned him induction into the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2000 and now into the Burnaby Sports Hall of Fame.

Carey’s trademark move was a fake that fooled left defenders and allowed him to accumulate 228 goals and 252 assists for 480 points in 334 regular season games in the Western Lacrosse Association. Carey had another 84 points, including 38 goals in 81 post-season games for a career total of 564 points.

In his junior days, Carey formed a formidable line with fellow Burnaby boys Gord Gimple and Fred Usselman. Together in the Western Lacrosse Association with the Vancouver Capilanos/Burrards and Coquitlam Adanacs they put up 2,297 points. Carey and Co. won a Minto Cup junior Canadian championship in 1956 and Canadian senior Mann Cup titles in 1961 and 1964. In 1965 the trio joined the expansion Adanacs with Carey playing six seasons in Coquitlam before retiring, although he stuck around with the A’s as an assistant coach and a team vice-president.