This prompted him to run for the Legislature to do it himself. He ran as a Liberal in the Ontario general election and was elected to the Legislature that year, defeating the incumbent who had served there for 11 years. Conacher would represent the riding until During that time, he had an office over a service station and worked directly with people in his riding. One time he found out that a woman had lost her husband and he told the undertaker that he would handle the funeral expenses.
He would also pick up the fuel bills each month for the poor families in his riding. Two years later, he took things to the next level when he ran to represent the Liberal Party of Canada for a seat in the House of Commons in the Trinity electoral district. He would lose that year, but in he was elected and would be re-elected in Even while serving in politics, Conacher would still spend time playing the games he loved.
In , he took part in a barnstorming tour with one team, and played games throughout Saskatchewan. On May 26, , Conacher was playing in the annual softball game between MPs and the press gallery. In the sixth inning, he hit a drive to left field, stretching a single to a triple.
When he arrived at third base, he collapsed head first into the dirt, as blood came out of his mouth. A few innings previous, he had been hit in the head with a pitch.
An MP who was also a doctor came to assist him but within 20 minutes Conacher was pronounced dead. A huge funeral was held and he was buried St. There have been several honours bestowed on Conacher both during his life and after his death. Of the three, he is the only one in both hall of fames. Rocket Richard was the first person to win the award three times, and Wayne Gretzky has won the award more than any other person, six times.
The award has been presented to a hockey player 26 times, more than any other sport. His son Lionel Jr. I will close out this episode with a quote from New York Times columnist John Kieran, who was asked to name the best athlete he had ever seen in Madison Square Garden. He would say, quote:. Babe Ruth too in a softball game, but it was still Babe Ruth.
Bill Tilden, who whacked a tennis ball under that roof, was a great man to watch. Four years after Brian Mulroney and the Progressive Conservatives won the most seats in Canadian history, it was time for another election In the early days of hockey, one of the most dominant players in NHL history was the man they called Old Poison, better known as Nels With 24 Stanley Cups, not one, not two but four The first expansion team to win the Stanley Cup, they would capture One of the first stars of the NHL and arguably one of the greatest players of the first half of the 20th century, Newsy Lalonde would go When the topic of NHL players strikes come up, we tend to look to the strike, the strike that wiped out the NHL season completely Canadian History Ehx.
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Leave a Reply Cancel reply. More from this show. Play episode. Conacher announced his retirement after the season, finishing his NHL career with points 78 goals, assists in games. He went into politics and won a seat in Canada's House of Commons in , one that he held until he died on May 26, He was named Canada's top athlete of the first half of the 20th century and was a charter member of the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame in Conacher won the Grey Cup, Canada's football championship, with the Toronto Argonauts in , and is one of two people, along with Carl Voss, to have his name engraved on the Grey Cup and the Stanley Cup.
We encourage you to review it carefully. The NHL uses cookies, web beacons, and other similar technologies. Enter Search Term. Use arrows to navigate between autocomplete results. If no results appear, use Enter to do a full site search. Stream Games. Lionel Conacher in mid-kick during a football game. A lacrosse stick used by Lionel Conacher. A drawing of Lionel Conacher participating in different sports. Lionel Conacher left and his brother hunting. Date: 's Collection: Courtesy of the family of Lionel Conacher.
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