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Arthur Griffiths was the owner of the NHL's Vancouver Canucks from 1988 until selling the team in 1997 to Seattle-based billionaire John McCaw, Jr.. He took over the Canucks from his father, Frank Griffiths. NHL can also be an abbreviation for National Historic Landmark or Non-Hodgkins lymphoma. ...
The Vancouver Canucks are a professional National Hockey League (NHL) ice hockey team based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. ...
1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
City nickname Emerald City City bird Great Blue Heron City flower Dahlia City mottos The City of Flowers The City of Goodwill City song Seattle, the Peerless City Mayor Greg Nickels County King County Area - Total - Land - Water - % water 369. ...
John McCaw, Jr. ...
Frank Griffiths (died 1974) was a Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada enterpreneur. ...
GM Place
It was Griffiths who lead the initiative to build GM Place. The original arena of the Canucks, the Pacific Coliseum, was owned the the Pacific National Exhibition, and there was issues regarding revenue from the luxury suites. As a result, Griffiths financed the building of GM Place in 1995. In order to keep up revenue, he also brought about the formation of the NBA's Vancouver Grizzlies.[1] Inside GM Place before a Canucks game General Motors Place, also known as GM Place and The Garage, is an indoor arena at 800 Griffiths Way in Vancouver, British Columbia. ...
The Pacific Coliseum. ...
The Pacific National Exhibition is an annual two-week summer fair in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. ...
1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The National Basketball Association of the United States and Canada, commonly known as the NBA, is the premier professional basketball league in North America. ...
The Memphis Grizzlies are a National Basketball Association team based in Memphis, Tennessee. ...
2010 Olympics The first proposal of getting the 2010 Winter Olympics to Vancouver was done by Arthur Griffiths in February 1998.[2] He would help it to become the Canadian bid for the Olympics, seeing it through to being awarded in 2003.[3] The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXI Olympic Winter Games, are the next Winter Olympics, scheduled to be celebrated in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 2010. ...
1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
On February 9, 2005, Infotec Business Systems named Griffiths its President and CEO, a company that was controlled by Edward Clunn, an investor who had been banned for 20 years from trading in British Columbia.[4] February 9 is the 40th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Griffiths graduated from BCIT in 1980 and soon joined his father in managing the Canucks. The British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) is a polytechnic institute in Burnaby, British Columbia that provides full- and part-time education leading to certificates, diplomas, applied bachelors degrees and applied masters degrees in technologies and trades. ...
1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...
He is married and has four children.
References - ^ Infotec, Infotec Business Systems
- ^ Reception in honour of Canada being awarded the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, Office of the Lieutenant-Governor of BC
- ^ VANCOUVER 2010 - ORIGINS, HISTORY AND OUR FUTURE, Tourism Vancouver
- ^ Baines, David (March 29, 2006). Griffiths lines up with banned stock offender. The Vancouver Sun. Retrieved on 2007-01-26.
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