Harvey Reti (1918 – 2020)

Harvey Reti was born on a farm near Taber, Alberta and started boxing at age seventeen. Reti joined the Canadian Armed Forces in 1958 and spent nearly twenty-four years as a member of Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. He won a bronze in boxing at the 1962 Commonwealth Games in Perth, Australia and competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. He held the Canadian welterweight title from 1951 to 1964. Reti taught boxing wherever his family lived and he founded the Yukon Boxing Club in Whitehorse where he became a celebrated coach.¹⁾

Harvey Reti was inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame in 1980.