Hockey player, businessman.
Born at Winnipeg on 2 November 1922 to Ingibjorg Arina Oddleifson (1892-1982) and Thorvaldur “Walter” Baldwin (1890-1969), he began playing league hockey as a defenceman with the Winnipeg Rangers in 1939, who were the 1941 Memorial Cup champions, and then the Winnipeg Falcons. With the Quebec Aces of the United States Hockey League, he helped win the Allan Cup in 1944.
He then joined the National Hockey League, playing for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings, and Chicago Black Hawks. He also played on the 1947 USHL championship team, the Kansas City Pla-Mors, and with the Brandon Wheat Kings in 1955, who were Western Canada intermediate champions. His pro statistics were 451 games played, 77 goals, 201 assists, and 278 points. In 2001 he was inducted into the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame.
After a 20-year career in hockey, he became one of the owner/operators of the Gimli Shoreliner Hotel and the Gimli Golf and Country Club, and was also a general contractor building multi-tenant buildings and warehouses across Western Canada. He and wife Gail Shirley Everson (1940-2009) had three daughters.
He died at Winnipeg on 10 July 2007.
Birth registration [Collin Roy Baldwin], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 14 July 2007.
Obituary [Gail Shirley Baldwin], Winnipeg Free Press, 28 July 2009.
“Baldwin, Doug,” Honoured Members, Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame.
“Douglas Colin Roy Baldwin,” Oke Family Tree, Ancestry.
This page was prepared by Lois Braun.
Page revised: 4 August 2024
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