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  • Macleans

    Hockey Coach Guilty of Sexual Assault

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on January 13, 1997. Partner content is not updated. For the victims, there was no joy last week when junior hockey coach Graham James was sentenced to 3 ½ years in a federal penitentiary for sexually assaulting two former players.

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    Howie Meeker

    Howard William “Howie” Meeker, hockey broadcaster, player, coach (born 4 November 1923 in Kitchener, ON; died 8 November 2020 in Nanaimo, BC). Howie Meeker won a Junior B hockey championship and served with the army’s Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers before joining the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1946. He won the Calder Trophy as the NHL’s top rookie in 1947, and won four Stanley Cups in his first five years with the Maple Leafs. He also served as a Member of Parliament and played a key role in the development of hockey in Newfoundland. He was perhaps best known for his enthusiastic and influential commentary on CBC TV’s Hockey Night in Canada. A Member of the Order of Canada, Meeker was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame and the British Columbia Hockey Hall of Fame.

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    Jacob Gill Gaudaur Jr

    Jacob Gill (Jake) Gaudaur Jr, OC, football player, executive, commissioner (born 5 October 1920 in Orillia, ON; died 4 December 2007 in Burlington, ON).

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  • Macleans

    Jacques Ménard (Profile)

    For one example of the remarkable range of acquaintances enjoyed by Jacques Ménard, the newly minted ex-chairman of the Montreal Expos, consider his role in the salvation of Felipe Alou.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on January 1, 2000

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    James Naismith

    Dr. James Naismith, physical educator, author, inventor, chaplain, physician (born 6 November 1861 in Almonte, Ontario; died 28 November 1939 in Lawrence, Kansas). James Naismith is best known as the inventor of the sport of basketball. He was also the first full-time athletics instructor at McGill University and established the basketball program at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, where he worked and lived for 41 years until his death. Naismith became the first member of the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1959. He was posthumously inducted to Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame and Canada’s Walk of Fame. In 2010, his original hand-written rules for the sport of basketball were sold at auction for $4.3 million, a sports memorabilia record. 

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    Jean Lowe Butler

    Alice Maud Eugenia “Jean” Lowe Butler, track and field athlete, educator (born 1922 in Toronto, ON; died 11 September 2017 in Mobile, Alabama). Jean Lowe Butler was one of Canada’s most accomplished amateur athletes. She set Ontario records in the women’s 100-yard and 220-yard dash and held the Canadian record in the women’s 100 m sprint (11.9 seconds). An elite college athlete in the United States, she competed in the 100 m, 200 m, long jump and high jump, and won medals in each event at every meet. Her exclusion from the 1948 Canadian Olympic team was controversial. A teacher for 30 years, she was inducted into the Tuskegee University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1985.

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    Karen Magnussen

    Karen Diane Magnussen (Magnussen-Cella), OC, figure skater, skating coach (born 4 April 1952 in Vancouver, BC).

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    Lester Patrick

    Lester Patrick (born at Drummondville, Qué 31 Dec 1883; d at Victoria 1 June 1960), patriarch of a family which dominated the early development of HOCKEY as players and managers.

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    Lloyd Percival

    Lloyd Percival, sport figure (b at Toronto 3 June 1913; d there 23 July 1974). A controversial and versatile entrepreneur, Percival was an all-rounder in his youth, competing successfully in many sports.

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    Lucien Laverdure

    Lucien Laverdure, coach, promoter, entrepreneur (b at Montréal 25 Sep 1915; d there 25 Dec 1976). Lucien Laverdure picked up a TENNIS racquet for the first time at around the age of 12 at the Collège Mont St-Louis, thus discovering the sport that really suited him.

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    Montreal Canadiens in the Hockey Hall of Fame

    Name Position Induction Year Marty Barry Centre 1965 Jean Béliveau Centre 1972 Hector Blake Left Wing 1966 Scotty Bowman Coach 1991 Émile Bouchard Defence 1966 Pat Burns Coach 2014 Harry Cameron Defence 1962 Guy Carbonneau Centre 2019 Joe Cattarinich Owner 1977 Chris Chelios Defence 2013 Sprague Cleghorn Defence 1958 Yvan Cournoyer Right Wing 1982 Léo Dandurand Owner 1963 Gord Drillon Right Wing 1975 Ken Dryden Goaltender 1983 Dick Duff Left Wing 2006 Bill Durnan Goaltender...

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    Pat Burns

    ​Patrick John Joseph Burns, police officer, hockey coach (born 4 April 1952 in Saint-Henri, QC; died 19 November 2010 in Sherbrooke, QC).

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    Pat Quinn

    ​John Brian Patrick (Pat) Quinn, OC, OBC, hockey player, coach, manager (born 29 January 1943 in Hamilton, ON; died 23 November 2014 in Vancouver, BC).

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    Patrick Gillick

    Lawrence Patrick David Gillick, baseball executive, general manager Toronto Blue Jays (born at Chico, California, 22 Aug 1937). Pat Gillick grew up in Sherman Oaks, California, and was educated at the University of Southern California, where he earned a business degree.

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    Paul Beeston

    Paul McGill Beeston, CM, baseball executive, accountant (born 20 June 1945 in Welland, ON). Paul Beeston was the first executive hired by the Toronto Blue Jays in 1976. He rose through the club’s ranks to become president from 1989 to 1997. During that period, the Blue Jays won four division titles and two World Series. In 1997, Beeston was hired as the president and chief operating officer of Major League Baseball (MLB). He returned to serve as Blue Jays president from 2008 to 2015 and was named the club’s president emeritus in 2016. A Member of the Order of Canada, Beeston has been inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame, the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame and Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame.

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