Editing Foster Hewitt (section)

==Later life==
[[File:Hewitt family tombstone.jpg|thumb|300px|The Hewitt family tombstone, with W.A. in the centre, and Foster to the right, in [[Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto|Mount Pleasant Cemetery]]]] Hewitt had retired from television in 1963, but he continued to broadcast Leafs games on radio until 1968. In 1965, he became one of a group of owners of the [[Western Hockey League (1952–1974)|WHL]] [[Vancouver Canucks (WHL)|Vancouver Canucks]], a minor professional hockey team. The following year, he and co-owner Cyrus McLean made a presentation to the National Hockey League asking the league to award them an NHL franchise, but their bid was rejected.{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}

Hewitt came out of retirement to broadcast the [[Summit Series|1972 Summit Series]] (with [[Color commentator|colour commentator]] [[Brian Conacher]]). Hewitt was inducted into the [[Hockey Hall of Fame]] as a builder in 1965. In 1972, he was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]]. The [[Foster Hewitt Memorial Award]] from the Hockey Hall of Fame is named after him, as is the media gondola at the nearby [[Scotiabank Arena]]. Hewitt's original gondola from Maple Leaf Gardens was dismantled, then dumped into an incinerator in August 1979 to make room for [[Luxury box|private boxes]], under the MLG leadership of [[Harold Ballard]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Horner |first=Matt |title=A History of Harold Ballard's Villainy |url=http://www.fiveminutesforfighting.com/2012/09/a-history-of-harold-ballards-villainy.html |access-date=2024-01-18 |website=FiveMinutesForFighting}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=And You Thought YOUR Owner Was Bad!: The Twisted Tale of Harold Ballard |url=https://vocal.media/unbalanced/and-you-thought-your-owner-was-bad-the-twisted-tale-of-harold-ballard |access-date=2024-01-18 |website=Unbalanced |language=en}}</ref>

Foster Hewitt was posthumously inducted into the [[Canadian Association of Broadcasters]] Hall of Fame in 1989<ref name="Potts 1996">{{cite web|last1=Potts|first1=J. Lyman|title=Foster Hewitt|url=https://www.broadcasting-history.ca/personalities/hewitt-foster|website=History of Canadian Broadcasting|access-date=14 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190920060036/http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/personalities/hewitt-foster|archive-date=20 September 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the [[Ontario Sports Hall of Fame]] in 1996.<ref>{{cite web |title=Foster Hewitt |url=http://oshof.ca/index.php/honoured-members/item/86-foster-hewitt |website=oshof.ca |publisher=[[Ontario Sports Hall of Fame]] |access-date=23 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141229012017/http://www.oshof.ca/index.php/honoured-members/item/86-foster-hewitt |archive-date=29 December 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref>