Harley Hotchkiss, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian businessman and philanthropist
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Place of Birth: Tillsonburg, Ontario, Canada
About Harley Hotchkiss
- Harley Norman Hotchkiss, (July 12, 1927 – June 22, 2011) was a Canadian business and community leader who was best known for his contributions to health and sports development in Canada.
- He was part of the consortium that brought the National Hockey League's Atlanta Flames to Calgary in 1980, and remained a part-owner until shortly before his death.
- For much of that time, he was the team's governor, and hence the public face of the ownership group.
- He served as chairman of the board of the National Hockey League between 1995 and 2007, and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as a builder in 2006. A graduate of Michigan State University in 1951 and a geologist by trade, Hotchkiss moved to Calgary in 1951 and began a long career in the oil and gas industry.
- He served as president of Alcon Petroleum into the 1960s, and started up his own companies, including Sabre Petroleum with long-time business partners Byron and Doc Seaman.
- His peers remembered him as an "icon" in the industry.
- In 1980, he joined with Ralph T.
- Scurfield, Norman Green, Norman Kwong and the Seaman brothers to buy the Flames and move them to Calgary. A noted philanthropist, the University of Calgary's Hotchkiss Brain Institute is named in honour of his contributions.
- He also supported Hockey Canada, investing in the growth of the sport across the country.
- He was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1997, elevated to Companion in 2009, and named to the Alberta Order of Excellence in 1998.
- In May 2012, it was announced that a new neighbourhood in southeast Calgary, Hotchkiss, would be named after him.In 2009, Harley Hotchkiss along with Paul Grescoe wrote a memoir, Hat Trick - A Life in the Hockey Rink, Oil Patch and Community.
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