Ottawa Sport Hall of Fame facts for kids
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| Established | 1968 |
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| Location | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
The Ottawa Sport Hall of Fame (French: Temple de la renommée du sport d'Ottawa) is a hall of fame dedicated to recognizing athletes and sportspeople associated with Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is located in Ottawa City Hall and includes over 270 inductees as of 2019.
History
The Ottawa Sport Hall of Fame opened in 1968, located at the Ottawa Civic Centre. It has since moved to the second floor of the Corel Centre in 2005, then to its current home at Ottawa City Hall in 2011. It is maintained by a volunteer board of directors, and enshrines its inductees into either athletes, builders or media member categories. Inductees are selected from community nominations, with consideration given to represent all sport contributions in Ottawa. It is a non-profit organization, and maintains memorabilia and commemorative plaques for more than 270 inductees as of 2019.
Inductees
The following groups and individuals have been inducted into the hall of fame:
Groups
- 1948 Ottawa RCAF Flyers
- 1968 Ottawa Rough Riders
- 1969 Ottawa Rough Riders
- 1975 Ottawa Gee-Gees football team
- Eldon Coombe rink
- Isabelle & Paul Duchesnay
- Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group
Individuals
- Jess Abelson
- T. Franklin Ahearn
- Daniel Alfredsson
- Caroll-Ann Alie
- Gail Amundrud
- Frank Amyot
- Roland Armitage
- Jeff Avery
- Jack Alexander Barber
- Jeff Bean
- Clint Benedict
- Chantal Benoit
- Sam Berger
- Marjorie Blackwood
- Leo Boivin
- Donald P. Booth
- Enée Bordeleau
- Frank Boucher
- Georges Boucher
- Sheryl Boyle
- George Brancato
- Bernie Brennan
- Punch Broadbent
- D. Wes Brown
- Rod Bryden
- Horst Bulau
- Desmond T. Burke
- Ernie Butter-worth
- Ernie Calcutt
- Gerald Bruce Campbell
- R. D. Campbell
- Linda Carbonetto
- Marc Cardinal
- Tom Casey
- Gerry Cassan
- Rick Cassata
- Barbara Caswell-McLeod
- Michael A. Chambers
- Al Charron
- Georges Chénier
- Frank Clair
- King Clancy
- Tom Clements
- Betsy Clifford
- Harvey Clifford
- John Clifford
- Edmund Condon
- Alec Connell
- Charlie Connell
- Jim Conroy
- Emile Côté
- Bill Cowley
- Renn Crichlow
- Jack Darragh
- Howard Darwin
- Eddie Daugherty
- W. F. A. Davies
- Cy Denneny
- Joseph Paul Ernest Désabrais
- Claude Deschamps
- Rick Desclouds
- Michel Dessureault
- Judy Elizabeth Dietiker-Davison
- Charlie Diffin
- Bill Dineen
- Mariann Domonkos
- John Donaldson
- Jack Donohue
- Cecil Duncan
- Jake Dunlap
- Jim Durrell
- Eddie Emerson
- Bob Ferguson
- Hervé Filion
- Frank Finnigan
- Bruce Firestone
- Jim Foley
- Thomas Clarence Foley
- Anna Fraser
- Alexa Fraser-Stirling
- John D. Fripp
- Doug Frobel
- Barclay Frost
- Tony Gabriel
- Garry Galley
- Don M. Gamble
- Eddie Gerard
- Wayne Giardino
- Heather Giford-Seaman
- Glenroy Gilbert
- Dave Gill
- Billy Gilmour
- Edward P. Gleeson
- Tony Golab
- Ebbie Goodfellow
- Tommy Gorman
- Paul Gratton
- Steve Gray
- Hélène Madeleine Grégoire
- Kristina Groves
- Patsy Guzzo
- John Halvorsen
- Gord Hamilton
- Robert Bruce Hamilton
- Barney Hartman
- Mary Haydon-Provos
- Anne Heggtveit
- Joan Hendry
- Charlie Henry
- Tiny Hermann
- Condredge Holloway
- Sue Holloway
- Don Holtby
- Charmaine Hooper
- Edward James Houston
- Syd Howe
- Debbie Huband
- Bouse Hutton
- Linda Jackson
- Russ Jackson
- Coco Jarry
- Aurèle Joliat
- Gil-O Julien
- Dan Kelly
- Clayton Kenny
- Gale Allen Kerwin
- Terry Kielty
- Brian Kilrea
- Hec Kilrea
- Ray Kinsella
- Bruce Kirby
- Kristina Kiss
- Alison Korn
- Mark Kosmos
- Jim Kyte
- Rocky Lacelle
- Lally Lalonde
- Lloyd Laporte
- Ed Laverty
- Alexander Smirle Lawson
- Cyril Leeder
- Tae Eun Lee
- Ken Lehmann
- Percy LeSueur
- Don Loney
- Neil Lumsden
- Brian Thomas Lynch
- Don Lyon
- Eddie MacCabe
- Kilby MacDonald
- Phil Maloney
- Elizabeth Manley
- Alain Marion
- Pat Marsden
- Wally Masters
- Jimmy McCaffrey
- Dave McCann
- Fred C. McCann
- Donald Stuart McDiarmid
- Brian McFarlane
- Frank McGee
- Jim McKenny
- Anne Merklinger
- Horace Merrill
- Pat Messner
- Philip Arnold Samuel Midgley
- Ian Millar
- Joe Miller
- Hazel Minor
- Gordon Montagno
- Frederick George Morris
- Janet Morrissey
- Charles E. Mortureux
- Shirley Moulds
- Cliff Murchison
- Bryan Murray
- James Naismith
- Cliff Neill
- Mike Nemesvary
- Joseph André Rodolphe Nézan
- Todd Nicholson
- Frank Nighbor
- Lynn Nightingale
- Bob O'Billovich
- Ambrose O'Brien
- Gerry Organ
- Ken Parker
- Bill Patterson
- Chuck Paul
- Ann Peel
- Wash Pelletier
- Gordon Perry
- Chris Phillips
- Jacques Pilon
- Joe Poirier
- Dale Potter
- Ross Potter
- Denis Potvin
- Johnny Powers
- Harvey Pulford
- Johnny Quilty
- Silver Quilty
- Moe Racine
- Al Rae
- Bob Rathwell
- Larry Regan
- Pat Reid
- Glenda Reiser
- Hugh Riopelle
- Bob Ripley
- Gordon Roberts
- Larry Robinson
- Mel Rogers
- Gus Sanderson
- Joey Sandulo
- Dave Schreiber
- Gary Schreider
- Barbara Ann Scott
- Richard Patrick Scott
- Randy Sexton
- Liv Sherwood
- Betty Shields
- Hap Shouldice
- Chris Simboli
- Bob Simpson
- Alf Smith
- Billy Smith
- Bobby Smith
- Brian Smith
- Claire Chapman Smith
- Des Smith
- Gary Edward Smith
- Tommy Smith
- Dave Sprague
- Harold Starr
- Ron Stewart
- Ken Stroulger
- Bruce Stuart
- Hod Stuart
- Mel Swartman
- Ray Takahashi
- Tina Takahashi
- Cyclone Taylor
- Dave Thelen
- Jean-Yves Thériault
- Shirley Laura Thomas
- Linda Thom
- Brian Timmis
- Andy Tommy
- Andrew Joseph Richard Tommy
- Art Tommy
- Bill Touhey
- Joe Tubman
- Whit Tucker
- Jack Varaleau
- Charles Kaye Vaughan
- Dawn Ventura
- Heather Wallace
- J. C. Watts
- Penny Werthner-Bales
- Rat Westwick
- Bill Westwick
- Doug Wilson
- Murray Wilson
- Donald Alexander Young
- Steve Yzerman
- Joe Zelikovitz
2019
The inductees for 2019 were Chantal Benoit, Chris Phillips, Rick Desclouds, John Halvorsen and both the 1968 and 1969 Ottawa Rough Riders teams. They were inducted at a ceremony at the Horticultural Building at Lansdowne Park on May 31, 2019.
2020–21
The 2020 induction ceremony was postponed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ottawa. The inductees were Dave Smart, Marina Zenk, Dr. Don Johnson and Phil Ashcroft, John Therien and Derek Holmes.
