GATINEAU, QUÉBEC--(Marketwired - Nov. 5, 2015) - Library and Archives Canada is proud to announce that it will be displaying and making accessible the Alexander Gardner 'Sandy' Watson fonds it acquired in August 2015.
Media are invited to attend a showing of some of the many items once held by Mr. Watson, the manager of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Flyers hockey team which won the gold medal at the 1948 Winter Olympic Games in Switzerland and to speak with the invited guests. The gold medal will also be on display.
DATE: | Monday, November 9, 2015 | |
TIME: | 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. | |
PLACE: | Library and Archives Canada | |
395 Wellington Street | ||
Ottawa, Ontario | ||
WHO: | Jim McAuley | Ottawa Sports historian, and fonds donor |
Normand Laplante | Sports Archivist, Library and Archives Canada | |
Diane Boyce | Daughter of head coach Frank Boucher | |
Dr. Guy Berthiaume | Librarian and Archivist of Canada |
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