Owen James Hart was a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 professional

Professional wrestling

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 and amateur wrestler

Scholastic wrestling

Scholastic wrestling, sometimes known in the United States as Folkstyle wrestling, is a style of amateur wrestling practised at the high school and middle school levels in the United States. This wrestling style is essentially Collegiate wrestling with some slight modifications. It is currently...

 who worked for several promotions including Stampede Wrestling

Stampede Wrestling

Stampede Wrestling is a Canadian professional wrestling promotion based in Calgary, Alberta and was for nearly 50 years one of the main promotions in western Canada and the Canadian Prairies...

, New Japan Pro Wrestling

New Japan Pro Wrestling

is a major professional wrestling promotion in Japan, founded by Antonio Inoki in June 1972 and owned by Yuke's since 2005, when Inoki sold the promotion. Naoki Sugabayashi is the current President of the promotion and has held that position from 2007. Owing to its TV program aired on TV Asahi, it...

 (NJPW), World Championship Wrestling

World Championship Wrestling

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 (WCW), and most notably, the World Wrestling Federation

World Wrestling Entertainment

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 (WWF), where he wrestled under both his own name, and ring name The Blue Blazer. A member of the Hart wrestling family

Hart wrestling family

The Hart wrestling family is a Canadian family with a significant history within professional wrestling. The patriarch of the family is wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer Stu Hart, amateur and professional wrestler, promoter and trainer, who not only owned and operated his own wrestling...

, Hart was born in Calgary

Calgary

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, Alberta

Alberta

Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...

, Canada

Canada

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 the youngest of 12 children to Stampede Wrestling promoter and WWE Hall of Fame

WWE Hall of Fame

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r Stu Hart

Stu Hart

Stewart Edward "Stu" Hart, CM was a Canadian amateur wrestler, professional wrestler, promoter and trainer. Hart founded Stampede Wrestling, a promotion based in Calgary, Alberta, and was the father of famous wrestlers Bret and Owen Hart...

 and Helen Hart.

Among other accolades, Hart was a one-time world champion: a one-time USWA Unified World Heavyweight Champion

USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship

The USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship formed in 1988, which consisted of the WCWA World Heavyweight Championship from World Class Championship Wrestling and the AWA World Heavyweight Championship from the American Wrestling...

; a two-time WWF Intercontinental Champion

WWE Intercontinental Championship

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; one-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship

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; one-time WWF European Champion

WWE European Championship

The WWE European Championship was a professional wrestling championship competed for in World Wrestling Entertainment. A coveted singles title of the late 1990s and early 2000s, it was held by superstars such as Shawn Michaels, Triple H, Kurt Angle, Chris Jericho, Owen Hart, Eddie Guerrero, and was...

 and four-time WWF World Tag Team Champion.