page_title: Cecil Duncan
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Cecil Duncan / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Cecil Duncan grave stone
context_page_description: Cecil Charles Duncan was a Canadian ice hockey administrator. He served as president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association from 1936 to 1938 and led reforms towards semi-professionalism in ice hockey in Canada. He served as chairman of the CAHA committee which proposed a new definition of amateur to eliminate what it called "shamateurism", in the wake of Canada's struggles in ice hockey at the 1936 Winter Olympics. He negotiated a series of agreements to protect the CAHA's interests, and to develop relationships with all other areas of the world where hockey was played. The agreements allowed the CAHA to become independent of the Amateur Athletic Union of Canada which wanted to keep the old definition of pure amateurism. Duncan's reforms also returned the CAHA to affluence after four years of deficits during the Great Depression and increased player registrations in Canada.
  Duncan was the first Canadian to be elected to the executive of the Ligue Internationale de Hockey sur Glace and served as a board member of the Ottawa District Hockey Association for 51 years.
context_section_description: Duncan was a civil servant and accountant within the Treasury Board, which oversaw pensions and healthcare in Canada. He was reported to be a business-first person and took exception to phone calls regarding hockey matters during business hours. He was married to Martha Sylvester Duncan, with whom he had one daughter. He died on December 25, 1979, in Ottawa, Ontario, and was interred at Beechwood Cemetery.
caption: Duncan's grave stone in Beechwood Cemetery
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