The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do.

). Among her early successes was Tom Arnold's Rose Marie on Ice at the Harringay Arena in London UK. Knopf.

She received many honours and accolades including being made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1991 and a member of the Order of Ontario in 2008. During her forties Barbara Ann Scott was rated among the top equestrians in North America. Known as "Canada's Sweetheart" Barbara Ann Scott is the only Canadian to have won the Olympic ladies' singles gold medal the first North American to have won three major titles in one year and the only Canadian to have won the European Championship (1947–1948).