Beginning in the small prairie town of Medicine Hat in the 1920s, Danny McLeod, always observant of what was unfolding around him, simply made attaining excellence his goal and way of life. So it was not surprising that he was successful on the battlefield, in sports and as an individual—as an intrepid combat soldier—achieving the rank of major—and a self-reliant peacekeeper; visionary athletic director at the Royal Military College, founding secretary of the Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union, coach of the RMC hockey team, the OHL's Kingston Frontenacs, and Kingston's Senior A team, Supervisor of Officials with the National Hockey League, a successful car salesman, and tenacious veterans' advocate and instrumental in completing the South Alberta Regiment's Wartime History.