Alex Robertson

Alex Robertson

Alex began his broadcasting career in 1970 at a small radio station in Sarnia, Ontario. He landed the position of Sports Director at CHEK-TV in August of 1974 - a position he would hold for 30 years. Over those three decades, Alex interviewed and featured on screen many of the world’s biggest names in sport, including Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Wayne Gretzky, and a young Tiger Woods. But what Alex was known for primarily was his dedication to covering the local athletes. Under his direction, it became the CHEK-TV mandate that a local visual sport story be presented on every evening newscast and the promotion of so many great local athletes and teams had a huge impact on Victoria and the Island. Alex was an original member of the organizing committee for this very Sports Hall of Fame institution. During his career, he produced over 14,000 stories. As well, Alex served as National TV host for Spruce Meadows Show Jumping, LPGA events, and Memorial Cup Hockey.

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Denny Boyd

Denny Boyd was delivered to the world in 1930 in Anyox, BC. shortly after his mother was delivered to the hospital in a family friend’s garbage truck. Twenty-one years later, he was writing sports for the Victoria Times.

Denny loved telling that story among what seemed a million others.

Stories were what he lived for, and no one had a better eye or ear for finding them and putting them into words. During his years at the Times, he covered it all: junior hockey, high school sports, and all the local leagues.

His work at the Times led to a career at the Vancouver Sun from 1957-72 and again from 1977 through 1999, first in sports, then in an entertainment/saloon column that became a “must-read” across the province.

With four books, a five-year stint as radio commentator, the Bruce Hutchison Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997 and the Order of BC in 2005, you have a life lived to the hilt by a man who lived for words, and made them sing.

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Victoria enjoys a stellar sports history and we celebrate the many athletes, teams and builders who have contributed to that history.  Our displays are seen at the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre (1925 Blanshard St.)  through Gate Three.

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