40, since he was scared of driving due to reporting on accidents for many years. Fitsell was a member of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 9, the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery Brigade Association, and the Kingston Jazz Society. His other interests included serving on the Kingston Buskers' Committee, the Kingston Heritage Tattoo Society, and the Queen's University Archives Committee. Fitsell was hospitalized in October 2020, and died at the Kingston General Hospital on December 3, 2020. Honours and legacy Fitsell received an honour award from the Ontario Minor Hockey Association in 1967 for distinguished service, and the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal in 1993. He was inducted into the Lindsay District Sports Hall of Fame in 1995. He was made a Paul Harris Fellow by the Rotary Club in 2005, and was given the Brian McFarlane Award in 2006 from the Society for International Hockey Research in recognition of his research and writing. Fitsell was inducted into the builder category of the Kingston and District Sports Hall of Fame in 2009. The archives of Queen's University at Kingston keeps fonds of Fitsell's historical collections, research and writing on ice hockey. References 1923 births 2020 deaths 20th-century Canadian historians 20th-century Canadian journalists 20th-century Canadian writers 21st-century Canadian historians 21st-century Canadian writers Canadian male journalists Canadian male non-fiction writers Canadian military personnel from Ontario Canadian sportswriters Directors of museums in Canada Journalists from Ontario Royal Canadian Navy personnel of World War II Sportspeople from Barrie Sportspeople from Kawartha Lakes Sportspeople from Kingston, Ontario Writers from Kingston, Ontario