Also an enthusiastic hockey historian, he was a founding member of the Society for International Hockey Research in 1991 and has spent much of his free time studying the history, writing an elaborate musical and developing a website about the Victoria Skating Rink and is considered to be the foremost authority on that historic arena.
Under the leadership of founding president Bill Fitsell, a retired journalist with the Kingston Whig-Standard, SIHR’s general objectives were: "To encourage and cultivate the study of ice hockey as an important athletic and social institution in Canada and other countries in which it was played."
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