Jack Wilson

Jack Wilson was born at Big River in central Saskatchewan, the eldest of six children. Though his family moved to Victoria, British Columbia in 1950, he played his junior hockey in his native Saskatchewan with Melville and Prince Albert before appearing in a single game with the Winnipeg Warriors of the Western Hockey League in the 1958-59 season. After playing for a season in Victoria, Wilson earned a hockey scholarship to play with the University of Denver Pioneers where he remained from 1960 to 1963, winning a NCAA national championship in 1961. He was selected as a member of the 1964 Canadian Olympic ice hockey team to compete at Innsbruck, but did not appear in any games.

After earning a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree from Denver, Wilson moved to Calgary in 1964 and continued to play in local senior leagues up to the late 1960s. He also had a long involvement with the Calgary Booster Club, serving as its president in 1976, and from 1979 to 1981 was a member of the Bid Committee for the Calgary 1988 Winter Olympics.