on Cape Breton Island after the war, and they married in 1945. He was discharged from naval service in 1946 and they settled in Lindsay. Journalist and historian Fitsell began his journalism career with The Lindsay Post in 1946, and then worked for the Lindsay Watchman Warder, the Woodstock Sentinel-Review, the Port Perry Star, and the Ontario Churchman. He moved to writing for the Gananoque Reporter in 1952. He joined The Kingston Whig-Standard in 1961 as the Gananoque Bureau Chief, then became the district editor. He began writing the column "People" in 1978. He worked full-time until 1988, then as a part-time contributor until 1993. From the early 1950s, Fitsell was involved in the community as a minor ice hockey coach and convenor in Gananoque and Kingston, Ontario. In March 1961, Fitsell attended a game in Gananoque where a 13-year-old Bobby Orr was discovered by scouts from the Boston Bruins while playing on a team from Parry Sound during the provincial playoffs. Fitsell was involved with the International Hockey Hall of Fame from 1969 to 2005, as its secretary, curator, vice-president, president and then historian. He was a driving force behind the Historic Hockey Series, an annual re-enactment by teams from Queen's University at Kingston, the Royal Military College of Canada, and the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, to commemorate early games played on natural ice in the Kingston harbour during the 1880s. He also helped organize the annual Carr-Harris Cup competition, between the Royal Military College of Canada and the United States Military Academy. Fitsell joined the Kingston Historical Society in 1977, was its vice-president in the early 1990s, and then became its president in January 1994. He was the founding president of the Society for International Hockey Research in 1991, was a regular contributor to the Hockey Research Journal and editor of the society's newsletter. The initial research group for the society began with 17 members in May 1991, and grew to include 500 members globally as of October 2020. Publications Fitsell wrote five books during his career, including a biography of Captain James T. Sutherland and the effort to establish the Hockey Hall of Fame in Kingston. Personal life Fitsell and his wife were married for 75 years and had five daughters. They resided in Kingston for more than fifty years. According to Fitsell's daughter, he did not have a car nor a driver's license until after aged