Blog – Page 2 – Canadian Spelling

The things you learn while making a newsletter… Like, don’t accidentally delete your subscribers. This newsletter is a day late because I was trying to make everything work out just right and forgot that deleting the software included the subscribers. But, I figured it out.

Canadian Inspiration

Hockey Night in Canada music played by an orchestra.

This has been called Canada’s second national anthem. Due to legal issues it is no longer played by the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) at hockey games. But, it is missed, a lot!

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Canadian People

Foster Hewitt

Foster Hewitt was born into a sports family. His father and two of his uncles were sports journalists. At the age of 13 he started working for a newspaper called Toronto News, and by 20 became its sports editor.

On March 22, 1923, Hewitt called his first hockey game (with Radio station CFCA started in 1922), an intermediate hockey playoff game between a team from Kitchener and one from Toronto.

But it was at that game that his famous phrase “he shoots, he scores!” was born.

At his peak, Foster Hewitt was probably the most recognized voice in Canada. His audiences numbered six million — one third of the population of Canada at the time — and he received 90,000 fan letters each year.

Hewitt is reputed to have never missed a game, calling over 5,000 sporting events in his career. Foster Hewitt received many accolades over his life. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1965, named to the Order of Canada in 1972 and was also a member of the Canada Sports Hall of Fame.

Foster Hewitt died April 21, 1985 at 83 years of age. In 1989, he was inducted into the CAB Broadcast Hall of Fame.

Sources:

Foster Hewitt at GoodReads

Amazon.ca – Foster Hewitt: His Own Story (1967)