Walter Ewing
Walter Galway Ewing
May 22, 1940 – September 29, 2018
Lived 78 years
Notre Dame de Lourdes Roman Catholic Cemetery · Girouxville, Alberta
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1940
Born May 22
1944
Walter was 4 when Allied troops landed at Normandy on D-Day
1957
Walter was 17 when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik
1962
Walter was 22 when the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war
1972
Walter was 32 when Paul Henderson's goal won the Summit Series against the Soviet Union
1980
Walter was 40 when Terry Fox began his Marathon of Hope across Canada
1991
Walter was 51 when the Soviet Union dissolved
2002
Walter was 62 when Canada's men won Olympic hockey gold for the first time in 50 years
2010
Walter was 70 when Sidney Crosby's golden goal won Olympic gold in Vancouver
2018
Passed away September 29, age 78
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