HALL OF FAME - WESTERN CANADIAN BOXING

THE HALL OF FAME and CANDIAN BOXERS & BUILDERS"
by Brian Zelley

From coast to coast and on and International basis, some of the
many folks that have been involved in amateur or professional
boxing have been inducted into one or more halls of fame.

BRITISH COLUMBIA
As of September 2011, only seven of the thousands of  folks
 that have been  involved in boxing have been inducted
into the British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame:
Jimmy McLarnin, Billy Townsend, Tommy Paonessa,
Harold Mann, Bert Lowes, Dale and Lennie Walters.

                                           BERT LOWES - BUILDER

                             DALE WALTERS  and LENNIE WALTERS

British Columbia Amateur Boxing Hall of Fame:
As of  September 1, 2011 there are 25 inductees in the 
BC Amateur Boxing Hall of Fame:

from Alan Brown (Junior & Youth Boxing)

to the 

1967 International Centennial

 Diamond  Belt Championships 

                  Six of 15 Inducted in 2010 - members of the core group
                        Freddy Fuller -  Eddie Haddad - Frank Scott
                          Dale Walters -  Dick Findlay - Fred Desrosiers

ALBERTA
As of September 2011, there are 29 boxing folk inducted into the
Alberta Sports Hall of Fame.  Some of the 29 include:
Allan Ford, Bill McGrandle, Kai Yip, Paul Hortie,
Scotty Olson, Wilf Greaves and Willie deWit

                                              SCOTTY (Bulldog) OLSON

                                                     WILF GREAVES


SASKATCHEWAN


A few of the names from Saskatchewan boxing inducted
in the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame are:
Adam Faul, Ken Goff, and Hank Hartenberger.

                                HANK HARTENBERGER and BOXERS
                                     Soo Line Boxing Club, Weyburn, Sask.
                               (reprint from the BC Amateur Boxing News  - b. zelley, editor)


MANITOBA
Some of the names of inductees in the 
Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame are:
Charlie Belanger, Eddie Haddad, Frankie Battaglia,
Herb Embuldeniya and Steve Trojack.


Cities, Municipalities and Town Sports Halls:
Throughout the various Provinces, there are alos
numerous Municipal Sports Halls of Fame such as
Prince George, Burnaby, Nanaimo and Greater Victoria


In Prince George, one of the boxers inducted is JACK MEDA

                           Along with Jack Meda, some other names are
                                      Sid McKnight, Harold Mann, 


In Greater Victoria, there is boxer Eddie Haddad and builder Mike Caird

                             IAN WEIR - MIKE CAIRD - BRIAN ZELLEY
                            .1974 photo from the "Victorian" by Jim Ryan
                       used in a Patty Pitts story about the revival of boxing 
also named in the article as one of the persons helping with the revival 
was "Dynamite" Dan Wright.  Wright along with Zelley also started the
revival of boxing with the formation of the Nanaimo Boxing Club 1971.


(Ian Weir was from Saskatchewan and can be seen in the photo with
Saskatchewan Hall of Famer, Hank Hartenberger of the 
Soo Line Boxing Club, Weyburn)