Ron Butlin (ice hockey)
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Ronald James Butlin was a Canadian ice hockey executive. He was president of the Western Canada Hockey League from 1968 to 1971, when the league separated from the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association
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The Stampede Corral in Calgary
The Allan Cup was the championship trophy for amateur senior ice hockey in Canada.
The Memorial Cup represented the junior hockey championship of Canada, and was controlled by the CAHA.
Earl Dawson
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Earl Phillip Dawson was a Canadian ice hockey administrator, politician and civil servant. As president of the Manitoba Amateur Hockey Association, Dawson reversed the decline of hockey in rural Manit
Ron Butlin (ice hockey)
…senior ice hockey, to be composed of hockey businessmen and team operators; something which Butlin had demanded. On July 30, Butlin and CAHA president Earl Dawson announced a tentative agreement where the WCHL would rejoin the CAHA. Twenty players from the WCHL were chosen in the 1969 NHL amateur draft which…
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City Hall in St. Boniface, hometown of Dawson
Dawson had multiple disputes with the Flin Flon Bombers (team jersey pictured) while he was president of the MAHA.