The Canadian family at the heart of the Teck mining dynasty

Norman B. Keevil sits in front of a painting in his office at Teck Resources' offices in Vancouver in 2012. Keevil, who is now 90, is front and centre after a blockbuster deal was struck to merge Teck with Anglo American. Photo by Gerry Kahrmann / Vancouver Sun

There are still a few mining industry old-timers out there who remember the annual exhibition hockey games at Maple Leaf Gardens pitting the Prospectors All Stars from Toronto against a team from Vancouver consisting of employees from what was then known as Teck Corp., or simply Teck.

Teck footed the $500 bill for the arena rental. The stands would be empty, but there was always a hockey celebrity or two sprinkled among the miners, including Bobby Orr, who was hired one year to be a linesman. The games, while friendly in inten