Interview with Rosemary Goodwin

Partial Transcript: I was born in Sheffield, England in 1946 so I'm the beginning of the post war baby boom.

Segment Synopsis: Rosemary tells us a little about herself including where she was born, where she grew up, and where she lives now.

Keywords: England; Niagara-on-the-Lake; Ontario; Sheffield; Vancouver

Partial Transcript: In fact, I have no direct history with the Canada Games. I've never been a participant and I really really have no direct involvement in Canada Games myself.

Segment Synopsis: Rosemary tells us about her personal connections to the Canada Games.

Keywords: Team; Tennis

Partial Transcript: Um, perhaps, perhaps the only thing, well the first thing that comes to mind is perhaps a negative one and that is because we have so many, so much more media nowadays, we have access to so much more information...

Segment Synopsis: Rosemary talks about some of the changes she has seen in the Canada Games over time.

Subjects: Media; Technology

Partial Transcript: The only large multi-sport event that I was ever privileged to attend was the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and of course we had always seen big Olympic Games on television so we had some idea of the scope and the spectacle...

Segment Synopsis: Rosemary talks about what she is looking forward to seeing at the 2022 Canada Summer Games in Niagara.

Keywords: Athletes; Olympic(s)

Partial Transcript: Don was born in 1930 in downtown Toronto. He was very much a a city guy a, a Toronto born and bred, he was an only child.

Segment Synopsis: Rosemary tells us about her late husband Don Goodwin, and details some of his main career milestones.

Keywords: Army; Don Goodwin; Halifax; Sudbury; Toronto; Winnipeg

Partial Transcript: It's 50 years ago, which to me because I'm old doesn't seem like very long. You know I mean that the 1960s are very vivid and real for me...

Segment Synopsis: Rosemary explains the inception of the Canada Games in 1967, and Don's involvement as a founder.

Keywords: CBC; Centennial; Don Goodwin

Subjects: Sport & Recreation in Canada; Sport History; The Canada Games Founders

Partial Transcript: Um, yeah he certainly was a founder. There's a, there's a lovely letter here from Finlay MacDonald. Finlay MacDonald, you know became a Canadian senator and he had the position of president of the Games...

Segment Synopsis: Rosemary describes how Don was able to help make the 1969 Canada Summer Games a special event.

Keywords: 1969; Athletes; Broadcasting; CBC; Don Goodwin; Halifax; Québec

Subjects: Media; Organizing the Canada Games; The Canada Games Founders

Partial Transcript: Yeah that’s a, that’s a very good question. We have a vast pin collection in this house and I've never seen a Canada Games pin.

Segment Synopsis: Rosemary talks about pin collecting, or rather lack of pin collecting, at the 1969 Canada Summer Games.

Keywords: 1969; Button(s); Manitoba; Pin(s)

Subjects: Gear Trading; Pin collecting

Partial Transcript: They didn't have a lot to work with. So they there may have been skeptics, I know one of the big fundamental pieces that had to be moved with the legislation regarding fitness and amateur sport.

Segment Synopsis: Rosemary talks in more detail about the early Canada Games and some of the specific challenges that Don Goodwin faced as one of the founders of the Canada Games.

Keywords: 1967; Dartmouth; Don Goodwin; Halifax; Impact; Niagara-on-the-Lake; Nova Scotia; Quebec City; finance

Subjects: Government Relations; Industry / post-industrialization

Partial Transcript: You know not not as much as I would like to tell you the truth. Although I, personally I very very value very much value print and um I'm enormously impressed with the book that the Canada Games created for the 25th anniversary...

Segment Synopsis: Rosemary talks about how the Games have been commemorated in a book that was published for the 25th anniversary of the Canada Games.

Keywords: CBC; Halifax; History

Subjects: Media

Partial Transcript: It was a privilege to to see some things up close because Don continued to be, to create events. Creating events was what he loved the best.

Segment Synopsis: Rosemary talks about Don's ability to plan events and to make them special by planning every little detail.

Keywords: Brock; CBC; Don Goodwin; Event; Impact; Niagara

Subjects: Media; Organizing the Canada Games; Sport History

Partial Transcript: I don't know about that, but when the Ontario bids were put together, he was adamant that Niagara was ideal. You know I guess Sudbury would have been to a certain extent...

Segment Synopsis: Rosemary describes how she feels about the 2022 Canada Games being held in the Niagara region.

Keywords: Bid; Kitchener; Niagara; Sudbury

Subjects: Built Legacy