More than 50 years later, the Canada Games and CBC seem inextricable from one another. It was Don Goodwin, who played key roles in both parties, who first orchestrated the arrangement in 1969.
Now, as the 28th Canada Games get set to begin in Niagara, Ont., Goodwin will be posthumously inducted into the event's Hall of Honour on Friday.
Goodwin died in 2018. Widow Rosemary Goodwin said the acknowledgement "means the world" to her. "Don was never a person who gave a fig about recognition," she said. "Whenever he did something, he made sure that it was fabulous.
And then at the end, it was over. And he turned around and said, 'What's next?'" The first Canada Games were held in 1967 to acknowledge Canada's centennial.
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