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Where famous ice hockey players grew up and lived
Explore the homes and neighbourhoods of 5 famous ice hockey players, and how each place shaped the person they became.
Bobby Orr1948–1962
📍 Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada
Bobby Orr grew up in Parry Sound, a small town on the rocky shores of Georgian Bay in Ontario, surrounded by lakes, pine forests and long, hard winters. His parents, Doug and Arva, were a…
Lev Yashin1929–1949
📍 Bogorodskoye, Moscow, Russia
I was born in Moscow in October 1929 and grew up in Bogorodskoye, a working-class district on the north-eastern edge of the city, near the forests of Sokolniki and the river Yauza. My…
Mario Lemieux1965–1981
📍 Ville-Émard, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Mario Lemieux was born in Montreal in October 1965 and grew up in a red-brick house on rue Jogues in Ville-Émard, a working-class, French-speaking neighbourhood in the south-west of the…
Tyler Wright1994–2011
📍 Culburra Beach NSW 2540, Australia
Tyler Wright was born in March 1994 and grew up in Culburra Beach, a small coastal village on the New South Wales south coast, at the mouth of the Crookhaven River, with long beaches, a…
Wayne Gretzky1961–1978
📍 Brantford, Ontario, Canada
Wayne Douglas Gretzky was born in Brantford, Ontario, in January 1961, the eldest of five children of Walter Gretzky, a telephone technician, and Phyllis. In the backyard of the family home…