page_title: W. A. Fry
section_title: Death and legacy
hierarchical_section_title: W. A. Fry / Death and legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: William A. Fry's gravestone in Riverside Cemetery in Dunnville, Ontario
context_page_description: William Alexander Fry was a Canadian sports administrator and newspaper publisher. Fry founded the Dunnville Chronicle in 1896, a weekly newspaper serving Dunnville, Ontario. He managed local hockey and baseball teams in the 1910s, then became president of the Ontario Hockey Association from 1922 to 1924. At the national level he was president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association from 1928 to 1930, was a Canadian Olympic Committee member and British Empire Games committee member from 1927 to 1938, and served as president of the Amateur Athletic Union of Canada from 1934 to 1936.
  He sought better working relationships with the National Hockey League and the American Amateur Athletic Union, to compensate Canadian teams for developing senior ice hockey players. He aimed to implement standardized ice hockey rules for all leagues under CAHA jurisdiction. He recommended control of the Allan Cup be transferred from its trustees to the CAHA, who then reinvested profits into minor ice hockey in Canada. This coincided with growing interest in the playoffs for the Allan Cup and Memorial Cup.
context_section_description: Fry died at the Hamilton General Hospital, on Friday, April 21, 1944. He was interred at Riverside Cemetery in Dunnville. The Dunnville Chronicle and the Welland Tribune reported that Fry was well known throughout the Niagara Peninsula, and that his funeral was well-attended by members of the sports associations with which he served. He was remembered by journalist and former Olympian Bobbie Rosenfeld as a man who fought for true amateurism in sport, in the face of growing professionalism.
  His son, William C. Fry, took charge of the Dunnville Chronicle in 1944. In 1961, the business was purchased by County Newspapers Limited, becoming part of the Thomson Newspapers chain. The paper later became part of Sun Media, who published the paper until closing operations due to cost-cutting measures. The final issue of the Dunnville Chronicle was issued on November 28, 2012, 116 years after its founding by Fry.
caption: Fry's gravestone in Riverside Cemetery in Dunnville, Ontario
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