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==Biography== ===Early life and career=== He began his broadcasting career at [[CJCA]] in [[Edmonton]], [[Alberta]] at the age of 16 covering high school sports for radio. From 1972 to 1981, he was co-host of ''[[Curling on CBC#CBC Championship Curling.2FCBC Curling Classic|Curling Classic]]'', a television program on the [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] (CBC) that was earlier hosted by [[Alex Trebek]]. In 1972, Chevrier was the ringside commentator for the World Heavyweight Championship between [[Joe Frazier]] and [[Ron Stander]]. ===Toronto Blue Jays, CFL, Ottawa Senators=== In [[1977 in baseball|1977]], he became the original television voice of the [[Toronto Blue Jays]] [[Major League Baseball]] team. He spent the next 20 years as a [[Sportscaster|commentator]] on the Jays' television broadcast crew. He called Nolan Ryan's seventh no-hitter when the Rangers played against the Blue Jays on May 1, 1991. Throughout the 1970s, he broadcast curling and the [[Canadian Football League]] for CBC, calling several [[Grey Cup]]s as well as [[Tim Hortons Brier|Briers]]. In the early 1980s he moved to [[Canadian Television Network|CTV]], where he remained a fixture in its sports department into the early nineties. In 1991, he called the [[1991 Canada Cup|Canada Cup]] hockey tournament for the network and from 1992β93 until 1997β98 he was the television voice for the NHL's [[Ottawa Senators]] for [[CHRO-TV]], working alongside [[Greg Millen]]. Chevrier was inducted into the Football Reporters of Canada section of the [[Canadian Football Hall of Fame]] in 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cfhof.ca/members/don-chevrier/|title=Don Chevrier|year=2016|website=[[Canadian Football Hall of Fame]]|access-date=April 9, 2022}}</ref> ===Olympic Games broadcasts=== Chevrier also provided [[television network]] coverage of the [[Olympic Games]] for [[North America]]n audiences since 1972, working for the CBC, the [[American Broadcasting Company]] (ABC), and the [[CTV Television Network]] before moving on to NBC. More recently, he covered events at the [[2004 Summer Olympics]], including [[badminton]], [[table tennis]], and [[synchronized swimming]] for NBC, and, along with longtime partner, [[Don Duguid]], called curling at the [[2002 Winter Olympics]] in [[Salt Lake City]] and in the [[2006 Winter Olympics]] in [[Turin]] for NBC. ===Personal life and death=== Chevrier resided in [[Palm Harbor, Florida]] until his death. He died at home on December 17, 2007, as a result of complications from an undisclosed blood disorder.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071218.wsptchev18/BNStory/Sports/columnists|title='Voice of God' silenced|last=Houston|first=William|date=2007-12-18|publisher=Globe and Mail|access-date=2009-03-22}}</ref>
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