Completely by accident I stumbled across the Ian Millar page on Wikipedia. It talked quite a bot about his career riding, but failed to mention at all what a great ambassador he had been to the sport. A check on the net failed to find more useable sources that would allow me to try and add to the page.

I have ridden western just as a hobby, run a few circles around barrels at a VERY amatuer level but have no contacts in the show jumping community (plus no longer live in Canada), so am not the best person to do this.

I guess what I am asking/hoping for is that someone more competent than I could pick up the ball and run with it.

For my own part, though not often around show jumping, I have seen him in action (in his ambassadors role) twice. Once at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair a girl was asking her mother questions she couldn't answer when Ian was walking by. He immediately stopped and explained and spent a couple of minutes chatting. 

The second time I was having lunch while watching the Loblaws cup at (I think it was called) Sunnybrook park when he came over and sat in the bleachers not far from me. A new event started I wasn't familiar with and he must have noticed I was confused because he immediately explained the event to me. I really can't imagine when I have met a friendlier, less affected person, though at the time (must have been mid 80's) he was quite famous.

I do not think any bio on Iam Millar can be complete without mentionaing his human accomplishments as well and his ambassador role for the sport and hope someone in a better position to do this will edit the page. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Millar

ty&brgrds,
Erik