A new Heritage Minutes short film by Historica Canada has commemorated a former CFL player.

Former player of the Calgary Stampeders and the Edmonton Eskimos (now the Edmonton Elks), Hall of Famer, and Lieutenant-Governor Normie Kwong will now be immortalized on the screen.

Born in Calgary in 1929, Kwong played football for Western Canada High School in Calgary, and later played for the Calgary Stampeders from 1948 to 1950.

In 1951, Kwong was traded to the Edmonton Eskimos, where he played until his retirement in 1960.

Not only was he part of four Grey Cup winning teams, but Kwong was also the youngest player to win a Grey Cup, winning while he was only 18 years old. 

He was also the first Chinese Canadian to play in the CFL.

During his playing career, he earned various CFL awards and more than 30 records, some of which are still standing.

After his playing career, Kwong was the President and General Manager of the Calgary Stampeders from 1989 to 1991 and was one of the original owners of the Calgary Flames after they brought the team up from Atlanta.

Having been part owner from 1980 to 1994, when the Flames won the Stanley Cup in 1989, Kwong became a member of a select group of individuals whose names appear on both the Grey Cup and the Stanley Cup.

In fact, to this date, only five names, including Kwong, can be found on both trophies.

Wayne Gretzky is one of the other four people to have achieved this accomplishment.

In 1998, Kwong was made a member of the Order of Canada, and from 2005 to 2010 was Alberta's 16th Lieutenant-Governor.

Kwong was also the National Chairman of the Canadian Consultative Council on Multiculturalism.

The Heritage Minutes are a series of sixty-second short films that help to immortalize important moments in Canadian History and have been around since March 1991.