/EINPresswire.com/ -- GATINEAU, QUEBEC -- (Marketwired) -- 11/05/15 -- Library and Archives Canada is proud to announce that it will be displaying and making accessible the Alexander Gardner 'Sandy' Watson fonds it acquired in August 2015.

Media are invited to attend a showing of some of the many items once held by Mr. Watson, the manager of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Flyers hockey team which won the gold medal at the 1948 Winter Olympic Games in Switzerland and to speak with the invited guests. The gold medal will also be on display.

DATE:     Monday, November 9, 2015

TIME:     10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

PLACE:    Library and Archives Canada
          395 Wellington Street
          Ottawa, Ontario

WHO:      Jim McAuley                   Ottawa Sports historian, and fonds
                                        donor
          Normand Laplante              Sports Archivist, Library and
                                        Archives Canada
          Diane Boyce                   Daughter of head coach Frank
                                        Boucher
          Dr. Guy Berthiaume            Librarian and Archivist of Canada

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