Abbotsford
Sports Hall of Fame

Roy "Buster" Cairns

Soccer - Inducted in 2008

Born in the tiny village of Clayburn, Buster learned and played soccer in the Central Fraser Valley before moving west in 1947 to play for Dominion Champions, Vancouver St. Andrews. Between 1947 and 1960 he played Left Back for St. Andrews, Westminster Royals, and Vancouver City.

His many accomplishments include winning five Dominion Championships medals (four with New Westminster). Buster was a member of Canada’s first World Cup team and played three times internationally for Canada, as well as being a perennial member of the BC All-Star teams. While Captain of the Westminster Royals in 1953, he led his team to the North American Championship by defeating the Chicago Falcons.

The Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame described Buster as “the best Left Back in the Pacific Coast League and Canada – he was admired by his team mates and opponents for his will to win, his amazing coolness and uncanny skill,” high praise for someone from the tiny town of Clayburn with little more than two dozen homes, fifty residents and one great soccer player.