Beverly Stanger was a blind Canadian Indigenous track and field athlete from the Timiskaming Band of Notre Dame du Nord, Quebec.
Stanger was a recipient of the prestigious Tom Longboat Award in 1976, only the second female to have done so and the first disabled athlete.
[2][3][4][5] Stanger was of Abenaki Algonquin descent, originally from the Timiskaming Band of Notre Dame du Nord, Quebec.
[5][4] She attended the W. Ross Macdonald School for the Blind in 1977, where she competed in track and field events.
She won a gold in the high jump, followed by two silver medals in the discus throw and the pentathlon.