Daryl Kenneth "Doc" Seaman was a Canadian oilman and hockey executive.
21 Facts About Daryl Seaman
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Daryl Kenneth Seaman was born on 28 April 1922 in Rouleau, Saskatchewan, to Byron Luther Seaman and Letha Mae Patton.
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Byron Daryl Seaman Sr was born in Wisconsin and had come to Canada during the First World War to help with the harvest.
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Daryl Seaman returned to Canada in January 1920 and married that same month.
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Daryl Seaman graduated high school in the spring of 1939, months before Canada entered World War II on 10 September 1939.
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That fall Daryl Seaman entered technical school in Moose Jaw and began playing hockey with the Moose Jaw Canucks.
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Shortly after starting school Daryl Seaman became ill and returned to Rouleau having dropped out.
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Shortly after finishing his training, Daryl Seaman was sent to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he spent his twentieth birthday.
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Between February 1943 and September 1944 Daryl Seaman's crew flew 82 sorties.
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On 23 September 1944 the crew returned to England and shortly thereafter Daryl Seaman returned to Canada aboard the Aquitaine, the same ship on which his father had returned to the United States after the First World War.
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Daryl Seaman returned to Saskatchewan but was not officially demobilized until August 1945.
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On 6 September 1948 in Vancouver, Daryl Seaman married Lois Maureen DeLong, whom he had met at university.
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Daryl Seaman found a partner in Bill Warnke, another war veteran working in the industry.
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Daryl Seaman then flew to Dallas, where the rigs were built, waited a week for its completion, and then drove the rig back to Canada.
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Not long after the company was fully operational, the Daryl Seaman brothers bought out Warnke's share of the business and changed the company name to Daryl Seaman Engineering and Drilling Company, known as Sedco.
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Daryl Seaman was a lifelong hockey enthusiast and in his youth had been asked to sign a protection card with the New York Americans.
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Later in life, Daryl Seaman was part of the group that purchased the Atlanta Flames in May 1980 and relocated the team to Calgary.
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In 1987 Daryl Seaman purchased the historic OH Ranch and its cattle operation, which he owned until his death in 2009.
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From 1949 on, Daryl Seaman lived with his wife Lois, who died in 1973 in Calgary.
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On 11 January 2009 Daryl Seaman died at the age of 86, having had prostate cancer.
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In 1993 Daryl Seaman was made an Officer of the Order of Canada, and in 2010 was posthumously inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.