A man credited with launching the hockey careers of many in the Glace Bay and surrounding areas from the 1960s to the 1980s has died.

Robert (Bugsy) Seward, originally from Glace Bay, passed away on March 10 at the Provincial Palliative Care Centre in Charlottetown. He was 86.

Seward was an instrumental part of growing the sport of hockey in the Glace Bay community, especially in the mid-1960s with the creation of the Glace Bay Community Hockey Clinic, which gave children the opportunity to learn and play the game in 1965.

James Edwards, president of the Glace Bay Minor Hockey Association, knew Seward well and was a driving force in his induction into the association’s hall of fame in 2025.

“He was such a great guy, and he was a great teacher,” said Edwards, noting Seward was an economics teacher at the former Morrison High School when he was in school.

“He was the foundation for Glace Bay Minor Hockey because he started with the tots, novice, atom and peewee divisions with his community hockey clinic. He laid the foundation for Glace Bay Minor Hockey.”

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