Program from the 1977 dinner.
The Charlie Conacher Humanitarian Award was awarded between 1969 and 1984 to a National Hockey League player for his humanitarian contributions during that year.
It was named after the NHL star Charlie Conacher, who died of throat cancer in December, 1967. He set up a research fund for throat cancer that his widow expanded on. Every May or June, there was a Charlie Conacher Memorial Dinner where this award was presented and money was raised for the research fund.
Winners[]
- 1969 George Armstrong
- 1970 Bob Baun
- 1971 Jean Beliveau & Bobby Orr
- 1972 Orland Kurtenbach
- 1973 Jimmy Peters, Jr. & Gary Bergman
- 1974 Ed Westfall
- 1975 Ted Irvine
- 1976 John Bucyk
- 1977 Jim Lorentz
- 1978 Bryan Watson
- 1979 Ed Staniowski
- 1980 Wayne Gretzky
- 1981 Ed Kea
- 1982 Borje Salming
- 1983 Brad Park
- 1984 Jim Peplinski