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Mar 6, 2021 · Walter Gretzky was born on Oct. 8, 1938, in Canning, Ont., northwest of Brantford, to Belarusian immigrants. Hockey world paying tribute to the Great One's late father, Walter...
The Legend of 99. Born in Brantford, Ontario in 1961, Wayne Gretzky learned to skate on a rink his father Walter built in the family’s backyard. Practicing for hours on end, it was here that a young Gretzky developed the skating, shooting and stickhandling techniques that appeared instinctive to so many over the course of his career.
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Mar 5, 2021 · March 5, 2021. OTTAWA — In an instant 30 years ago, a huge piece of Walter Gretzky’s legacy went missing. Gretzky, the father of the greatest hockey player of all time, had an aneurysm while...
Mar 5, 2021 · Walter Gretzky was born Oct. 8, 1938, and raised on his parents' farm in Canning, Ontario. He was a high school athlete, excelling in track and field, but was better at hockey, starring as a...
Mar 5, 2021 · Walter Gretzky was the son of immigrants — a Polish mother and Russian father — who started a vegetable farm in 1932 in Canning, Ontario, just outside Brantford, on the Nith River, where Wayne...
Mar 4, 2021 · March 4, 2021, 11:41 PM. Walter Gretzky, the ultimate Canadian hockey dad who taught and nurtured The Great One, has died. He was 82. The father of Wayne Gretzky became a name himself, a...
Mar 5, 2021 · His autobiography and a 2005 made-for-TV movie told the story. Walter Gretzky was the son of immigrants — a Polish mother and Russian father — who started a vegetable farm in 1932 in Canning, Ontario, just outside Brantford, on the Nith River, where Wayne learned to skate when he was two. They bought it for $600.
