Ken McKenzie (West Perth Footballer)
Ken McKenzie (August 19, 1923April 9, 2003) was a Canadian newspaper publisher and sports journalism, sports journalist. He served as publicity director of the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1946 to 1963. In 1947, he published the first NHL press and radio guide, and co-founded ''The Hockey News'' with Will Cote and Canadian dollar, C$383.81. McKenzie bought out his partner and later sold an 80 per cent share of ''The Hockey News'' for a reported $4-million in 1973. He stayed on as its publisher and a columnist until 1981. He also published ''Canadian Football News'', ''Ontario Golf News'', and the magazines ''Hockey Pictorial'' and ''Hockey World''. McKenzie is the namesake of three separate ice hockey awards; the Ken McKenzie Trophy of the Central Hockey League (1963-84), Central Hockey League, the Ken McKenzie Trophy (IHL), Ken McKenzie Trophy of the International Hockey League (1945-2001), International Hockey League, and the Ken McKenzie Award of the American Hockey Lea ...
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Winnipeg
Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749,607 and a metropolitan population of 834,678, making it the sixth-largest city, and eighth-largest metropolitan area in Canada. The city is named after the nearby Lake Winnipeg; the name comes from the Western Cree words for "muddy water" - “winipīhk”. The region was a trading centre for Indigenous peoples long before the arrival of Europeans; it is the traditional territory of the Anishinabe (Ojibway), Ininew (Cree), Oji-Cree, Dene, and Dakota, and is the birthplace of the Métis Nation. French traders built the first fort on the site in 1738. A settlement was later founded by the Selkirk settlers of the Red River Colony in 1812, the nucleus of which was incorporated as the City of Winnipeg in 1873. Being far inland, the local cl ...
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