Canada's Sports Hall of Fame

Canada's Sports Hall of Fame

Established	1955
Location	Canada Olympic Park, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Type	Hall of Fame
Director	Janice Smith - Interim Chief Executive Director
Curator	Janice Smith - as Director, Exhibits & Programming
Website	www.sportshall.ca/

Canada's Sports Hall of Fame (Template:Lang-fr) is a hall of fame established in 1955 to "preserve the record of Canadian sports achievements and to promote a greater awareness of Canada's heritage of sport." It is located at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, Alberta. There are 611 honoured members of the hall.

History

The lobby and partial facade of one entrance to the hall was preserved as an entrance to BMO Field.

The Hall, first known as the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame, was founded in 1955 through the efforts of Harry I. Price, a former assistant athletics commissioner of Ontario. It was first housed in the Stanley Barracks, located in Toronto on the grounds of Exhibition Place. It moved in 1961 to a wing of a new building shared with the Hockey Hall of Fame. The Hockey Hall of Fame moved out in 1993, leaving the building to the Sports Hall of Fame. Without the Hockey Hall of Fame, attendance declined and the Sports Hall made plans to move to Ottawa. The move to Ottawa never took place, because the venues promised for the Hall by the federal government were allocated for other uses, and the move eventually was cancelled.

In 2006, the Hall of Fame building was demolished to make way for BMO Field and the collection moved to the Stanley Barracks in preparation for an opening in some new location. One facade, which incorporated a tile mosaic, was incorporated into the BMO Field structure. Nine cities across the country bid for the right to host the new hall, and in 2008, a proposed site at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary was chosen. The new facility opened on Canada Day, July 1, 2011. It has 11 galleries and numerous interactive displays.

Previous homes of the CSHOF

• Stanley Barracks, CNE 1955-1957
• CNE Press Building (former Administration Building), CNE 1957-1961
• CSHOF Building, CNE 1961-2006
• Stanley Barracks, CNE 2006

Inductees

Main article: List of members of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame

Six people were inducted into the hall as part of its 2011 class:

• Lui Passaglia, football player
• Ray Bourque, hockey player
• Peter Reid, triathlete
• Lauren Woolstencroft, paralympian
• Andrea Neil, soccer player
• Dick Pound, International Olympic Committee member

On October 17, 2012, the 2012 class of inductees were:

• Marion Lay, swimmer and 1968 Olympic bronze medalist
• Charmaine Hooper, soccer player
• Scott Niedermayer, hockey player and 2002 & 2010 Olympic gold medalist
• Jamie Salé and David Pelletier, figure skaters and 2002 Olympic gold medalists
• Derek Porter, rower and 1992 Olympic gold & 1996 Olympic silver medalist
• Jeremy Wotherspoon, speed skater and 1998 Olympic silver medalist

On October 16, 2013, the 2013 class of inductees were:

• Joe Sakic, ice hockey
• Russ Howard, curling
• Alison Sydor, cycling
• Kirsten Barnes, Jessica Monroe, Brenda Taylor, Kay Worthington, Jennifer Walinga,1992 Canadian women's Olympic coxless fours
• Murray Costello, ice hockey player and executive
• Jean-Guy Ouellet, national sport advisor and international official
• André Viger, wheelchair marathoner and Paralympian

On October 22, 2014, the 2014 class of inductees were:

• Horst Bulau, ski jumping
• Sarah Burke, freestyle skier
• Pierre Harvey, cycling and cross-country skiing
• Geraldine Heaney, ice hockey
• Elizabeth Manley, figure skating
• Gareth Rees, rugby
• Tim Frick, women's wheelchair basketball coach
• Kathy Shields, women's basketball coach

On October 21, 2015, the 2015 class of inductess were:

• Paul Coffey, ice hockey (NHL)
• Jennifer Heil, freestyle skiing (moguls) and 2006 Olympic gold & 2010 Olympic silver medalist
• Danielle Goyette, ice hockey and 2002 & 2006 Olympic gold & 1998 Olympic silver medalist
• Craig Forrest, soccer and 2000 CONCACAF Gold Cup winner
• Susan Auch, speed skater and 1994 & 1998 Olympic silver & 1988 Olympic bronze medalist
• Nicolas Gill, judo and 2000 Olympic silver & 1992 Olympic bronze medalist
• Michael Edgson, Paralympic swimmer and 18-time Paralympic gold medalist
• Sharon Firth & Shirley Firth, cross-country skiers
• Lori-Ann Muenzer, track cyclist and 2004 Olympic gold medalist
• Jocelyne Bourassa, golf
• Marina van der Merwe, field hockey

On June 17, 2015, the Sport Legends class of inductees were:

Canadian Sport Legends Class, athletes'

• George Burleigh
• William Cecil Billy Christmas
• Alex Decoteau
• Carol Ann Duthie
• Alfred Cam Ecclestone
• Larry Gains
• Bob Goldham
• Gerald Gratton
• Robina Higgins Haight
• Barbara Howard
• Bill Isaacs
• Joe Keeper
• Johnny Loaring
• Harry Xul-si-malt Manson
• Vincent McIntyre
• Robert McLeod
• Aileen Meagher
• Albert Murray
• Charles Murray
• Alf Philips
• Robert Pirie
• Robert Powell
• Harvey Pulford
• Robert Scotty Rankine
• Hilda Ranscombe
• Eileen Whalley Richards
• Winnie Roach
• Rose Mary Thacker
• Elizabeth Whittall
• Rhoda and Rhona Wurtele

Canadian Sport Legend Category, builders

• Earl Bascom
• Frank Calder
• James Creighton
• Norton Crow
• Sidney Dawes
• Jan Eisenhardt
• Alexandrine Gibb
• Cecil Grenier
• Phyllis Griffiths
• Frederick James Heather
• Frank Read
• Melville Marks “Bobby” Robinson
• William Shuttleworth
• Henry Sotvedt
• Stanley Thompson

External links

• Official website