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He is the winner of multiple awards for his writing, including the prestigious
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98:. He is also a member of the Huntsville Sports Hall of Fame, Huntsville being the small town where he played competitive hockey, lacrosse and baseball. In 1960, he played - as a second- and third-liner - on the Huntsville team that won the all-Ontario Pee Wee 'A' lacrosse championship.
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MacGregor has also been called "the Wayne
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Northern Light: The
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Paper Trails: From the
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Photography by Steve Evans. General Store
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as Canada's top television dramatist, including for the 1978 film
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Pearlstein, Steven. "Washington Post, April 16, 1999, p. A19".
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A Loonie for Luck: A True Fable about Hockey and the Olympics.
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Zeisberger, Mike. "The Toronto Sun, Sept. 20, 2015, p. A22".
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Random House Canada, 2017, winner of Ottawa Book Award 2018.
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Co-author with Ken Dryden, McClelland & Stewart, 1989.
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Sokoloff, Heather. "National Post, Jan. 30, 2001, p. A2".
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Original Highways: Travelling the Great Rivers of Canada,
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