• Honoured member of the Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame (2008)
• Driving force behind five Allan Cup Canadian Senior Hockey titles, including four of those as general manager (1975 – 1984 – 1985 – 1988 -1989)
• GM of three Colonial Hockey League championship teams (1992 – 1994 – 1995)
• Colonial Hockey League Executive of the Year (1995)
• GM of three SIJHL championship teams (2004 – 2005 – 2006)
• GM of Dudley-Hewitt Cup Central Canadian Jr. A champions (2006)
• SIJHL’s Gary Cook Memorial Award named in his honour
BIO: An honoured member of the Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, Mr. Cook was the ultimate hockey executive who boasted a resume of championship clubs that was second to none in hockey circles around North America.
Among his many accomplishments as a general manager and executive were a record five Allan Cup Canadian senior hockey championships, three Colonial Hockey League crowns, a CHL executive of the year award, a trio of SIJHL Bill Salonen Cup titles and a Dudley-Hewitt trophy all while earning the admiration and respect of the many, many people he was associated with over the years.
With a career covering six decades, Mr. Cook was a true northwestern Ontario icon, who earned the admiration and respect of all those who were fortunate enough to have met and known him.
From his days as a stick boy in the 1950s, right up until his passing in January of 2008, he dedicated himself to providing opportunities for people to participate and excel in hockey, making him a true builder of the sport in the truest sense of the word.
Serving on the training staff of the Port Arthur North Stars junior hockey organization throughout the 1960s, ‘Cookie’ moved on to be the trainer of the Port Arthur Marrs side in their Memorial Cup finals appearance in 1967 vs. the powerful Toronto Marlboros.
Making the jump to senior hockey, he started a 20-year affiliation with the Thunder Bay Twins. 
He was their trainer when they captured their first Allan Cup Canadian national senior championship in 1975.
Following his transition to the general manager’s position with the club, under his guidance, the Twins grew into the dominant senior hockey side in the entire country, winning four more Allan Cups in 1984, 1985, 1988 and 1989, while being right in the hunt for multiple others.
The next step in his distinguished career came as a founding member of the Colonial Hockey League where he served as GM and director of hockey operations of the former Thunder Bay professional franchise.
Under his watch, his teams would go on to capture three Colonial Cup titles in four years while also collecting league executive of the year laurels in 1995.
He would continue to stay involved, putting his time and talent into the Superior International Junior Hockey League where he served as GM on a trio of Bill Salonen Cup championship clubs from 2004-06.
His squad would also capture the 2006 Dudley-Hewitt Cup Central Canadian Jr. A crown and an eventual semifinal berth in national championship event.
Mr. Cook was officially recognized for his lengthy hockey-related service to the community of Thunder Bay when he was posthumously inducted into the Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in September of 2008.