Gino Odjick wore No. 29, which doesn’t seem terribly significant until you learn it was the registration number given to this father Joe at the residential school in Spanish, Ont. It’s just o…
It had been an emotionally charged opening to the Indigenous Sports Gallery and Jason Beck was collecting his thoughts when a familiar face appeared at the front desk of the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame.“Stay around?” said Gino Odjick. “We just got here.”
All the while, Odjick barely said a world as he took in the stories of his people — these beautiful, powerful, sometimes heartbreaking, always inspiring stories — then walked up to Beck and Alison Mailer, the Hall’s former executive director.He’s since experienced others like it. When it opened last September, there was concern about filling the available space with stories of First Nations people and sports. Turns out that wasn’t a problem.
Paull would eventually form the North Shore Indians, an all-Aboriginal team that used to pack the old Denman Arena in the ’30s when the game was king in the Lower Mainland. In 1936, the Indians made it to the Mann Cup final here and they played the Orillia Terriers in front of huge crowds at Maple Leaf Gardens.
Ten years ago it started as a temporary display in a cramped corner of the Hall. Now it occupies 1,500 square feet and, in many respects, has become the beating heart of the facility.
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