Was the owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs NHL hockey team.
He was involved with many charitable causes.
Inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame (as a Builder) in 1977.
Majority owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs (1967-1990). He was a
minority owner for the Leafs from 1962 to 1967. His team made it to the
semi-finals in 1978.
He had late in life a companion Yolanda MacMuillan who legally changed her name to Ballard even though they never married.