Interview with Rick Brownlee

Files

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Title

Interview with Rick Brownlee

Description

Rick Brownlee has participated in the Canada Games as a member of the Manitoba Mission Staff from 2007 to 2017. Rick began working in the field of amateur sport in 1983, has been the Executive Director of the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame since 1990, and is the Sport Heritage Manager at Sport Manitoba. In this interview, he discusses his varied experiences with the Canada Games throughout his career.

Subject

Mission Staff
Organizing the Canada Games
Media
Technology
Canadian Identity
Unity Through Sport
Friendships at the Canada Games

Date

2020-09-17

Format

video

Identifier

CGOH-016

Interviewer

Vlossak, Elizabeth
Linzel, Jessica

Interviewee

Brownlee, Rick

Location

Recorded over Microsoft Teams in St. Catharines (Ontario, Canada), Grimsby (Ontario, Canada) and Winnipeg (Manitoba, Canada).

Language

English

Temporal Coverage

2007
2017

Spatial Coverage

Canada -- Yukon -- Whitehorse
Canada -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg

Rights

Permission from the SOHA is required for publication or reproduction.

Conversion

This oral history interview was conducted digitally via Microsoft Teams. The video was edited in Adobe Premiere Pro, at which point an introduction sequence and question slides were added, and the interviewer's video and audio were removed.

Interview Keyword

Team Manitoba
Chef de Mission
Sport Manitoba
Kids
Hall of Fame
Assistant Chef de Mission
Badminton
Boxing
Canada Summer Games
Canada Winter Games


Citation

“Interview with Rick Brownlee,” Sport Oral History Archive, accessed April 19, 2024, https://sportoralhistory.ca/items/show/44.