The Georgetown Hockey Heritage Council is pleased to announce
the recipient for this year’s Hockcey Heritage Award.

Tony Graham-Smith

Tony’s hockey journey started by playing house league in 1969 shortly after his family moved to Georgetown. In the early 1980’s, being too old to play house league, Tony helped coach the Midget house league alongside Gary Stone and other friends.
Not long after, he took on the role of Midget Convenor for a couple of years.
He became active again with Georgetown Minor Hockey in 1993 when his oldest son started playing hockey – enjoying once again the role of coach. In the coming years as his other sons joined the sport and wanting to be part of their experience, more than once he could be found coaching multiple teams/age groups
in a season also serving as a league convenor.
At one point taking on the role of Director of the Senior House League.
The volunteering continued from there as he was part of the group that helped start the Georgetown House League Christmas Tournament (renamed The Bob Goldham Memorial House League Christmas Tournament) The Christmas Tourney was an annual highlight and some of the most enjoyable hockey of the season.
While coaching and convening, he together with Ron Lefebvre helped introduce paid timekeepers for house league games. Not one to say ‘no’…. he agreed to take on the scheduling duties of the timekeepers for all house league games. This later led to providing timekeepers for the both the Hockey Heritage Oldtimers
and Sports Unlimited Oldtimers Tournaments annually.
Using his welding background, Tony built storage cages for GMHA equipment and later did the same for the Twisters. After the closure of the welding shop where he worked, he worked part-time for the Town of Halton Hills at various facilities.
In 2013, following the expansion of the Mold-Masters SportsPlex, Tony became a full-time arena operator. There were times when he was coaching, convening, and flooding the ice all at the same time! He retired from full-time work in 2024 but continues to work part-time at both the Mold-Masters SportsPlex and Acton Arena,
taking care of the ice for hockey.

The Georgetown Hockey Heritage Council is proud to select Tony Graham-Smith as the worthy Recipient of the 2026 Hockey Heritage Award.