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Armitage attended Saint Mary"s University, Halifax where he played football quarterback.
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Steve Armitage
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He grew up in Victoria, British Columbia and Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. In 2006 he was inducted into the British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame. Armitage was one of the two play-by-play announcers (the other being Nigel Reed) announcing for Canadian Broadcasting Company Sports in the 2007 Fédération internationale de football association U-20 World Cup in Canada.
Paul Dolan was the analyst alongside Armitage.
He called swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics for Canadian Broadcasting Company. Armitage was laid off by the Canadian Broadcasting Company in August 2014 due to cuts to sports programming and the loss of hockey coverage to Rogers Media.
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He has covered such events as Hockey Night in Canada, the Canadian Football League and Grey Cup, the Olympics, and the World Cup. Armitage won the 1982 ACTRA Foster Hewitt Award for Excellence in Sports Broadcasting and he was nominated for a Gemini Award in 1998 for his coverage of speed skating at the Winter Olympics.
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