Max Quackenbush


Maxwell Joseph Quackenbush was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 61 games in the National Hockey League for the Chicago Black Hawks and Boston Bruins. He was the younger brother of Bill Quackenbush. In his post-hockey career, he served with the Metropolitan Toronto Police Force, and was known to many elementary school children in the '60s and '70s as "Constable Quackenbush", instructing them on traffic safety in partnership with Elmer the Safety Elephant.
His son, Ross, played for the Canadian National Basketball team in the 1970s, and served as the head coach of the St. Mary's University basketball team for many year. Quackenbush died in Halifax in 2020; he had Alzheimer's disease in his later years.