to help create Sport Canada. He received the Vanier Award and the Queen's Jubilee Medal for community service. Hayter was married to Grace Jacqueline (Jac'y) Bacon Hayter who predeceased him in 2005, and was the father of four children, the writer Sparkle Hayter, Sandra Hayter, Nevin Hayter, and Hudson Hayter, who died in infancy. He was the nephew of the late bush pilot and aviation pioneer Henry W. "Harry" Hayter, who is in Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame. Hayter was diagnosed with dementia in his later years and died of pneumonia on April 21, 2018, in St. Albert, Alberta, at the age of 81. References 1936 births 2018 deaths Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame inductees Canadian magazine journalists Deaths from pneumonia in Alberta Edmonton city councillors Politicians from Regina, Saskatchewan 20th-century Canadian politicians 21st-century Canadian politicians