John Bassett

John Bassett Sr. — A Broadcasting Pioneer, Maple Leaf Partner, and the Man Who Tried to Steady the Ship While walking through Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto, mini hockey stick and puck in hand, I visited the family plot of John Bassett Sr. — a name that, though perhaps quieter in the public memory than […]

On my walk at Aurora Cemetery in Aurora, Ontario, I discovered the grave of Eric Cradock, the co-owner who originally brought professional basketball to Toronto. Before the Raptors arrived in 1995, Toronto had a short-lived team called the Toronto Huskies. In 1946, the city was awarded a franchise in the newly formed Basketball Association of […]

On my walk to three different cemeteries, I reunited the owners of the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1960s until the early 1970s.