found: The globe and mail, 21 March 2018, online, viewed 10 September 2018(Larry Kwong, who skated for one shift in a National Hockey League game in 1948, an act seemingly of little consequence at the time that now symbolizes the breaking of a racial barrier in sport, died at home in Calgary on March 15; born Eng Kai Geong in Vernon, British Columbia, on June 17, 1923, with immigration officials recording his name as Lawrence Kwong; played his first game of organized hockey at 16, offered a contract with the New York Rangers and assigned to the New York Rovers, then called up to play in one game in Montreal, later becoming a coach before returning to the family grocery business)
