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GFA World Staff Join Hamilton’s Beach Cleanup
June 19, 2018
HAMILTON, ONTARIO – The name Tim Horton is almost synonymous with Canada. Horton was a first-team All-Star three times in his 24-year career in the National Hockey League. In 2017, he was named as one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players of all time.
Ten years before his untimely death in an auto accident in 1974, Tim and his business partner, Ron Joyce, opened a doughnut shop in Hamilton, Ontario. It was the first of more than 4,600 stores that would eventually exist by 2013.
As Tim left the doughnut stores as his legacy, the company continues to leave a legacy in Hamilton. Each year it partners with the City of Hamilton in a Team U…
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