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LOS ANGELES – SEP 2: Kane at “The Perfect Guy” LA Premiere at the Writers Guild Theater on September 2, 2015 in Beverly Hills, CA, kathclick/Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Evander Frank Kane
Place of Birth: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Date of Birth: August 2, 1991
Ethnicity: * father – Black Nova Scotian * mother – European
Evander Kane is a Canadian professional ice hockey player. A winger, he plays for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League (NHL), and has played with the Canada national team. He was previously with the Atlanta Thrashers, the Winnipeg Jets, Dinamo Minsk, the Buffalo Sabres, the San Jose Sharks, and the Edmonton Oilers.
Evander is the son of Sheri and Perry Kane. His parents were collegiate athletes, his father an amateur hockey player and boxer, and his mother a volleyball player at the University of Calgary. His father is African-Canadian, from the Black Nova Scotian community. His mother is white. His uncle, Leonard Kane, is in the Canadian Ball Hockey Hall of Fame. He is also a cousin of professional football player, school administrator, and politician Dwayne Provo and professional boxer Kirk Johnson.
Evander was raised in East Vancouver. He has a daughter with his former wife Anna Kane.
He was named after boxer Evander Holyfield.
Evander’s maternal grandfather may have been Ernst Leonard Reichert (the son of Leonard Karl Reichert and Olga Sommerfeld). Ernst was born in Shellbrook, Saskatchewan, to ethnic German parents, from Poland. Leonard was born in Łódź, the son of Karl Reichert and Emily Ferster. Olga was born in Biała, Piotrków County, Łódźkie, the daughter of John/Johann Sommerfeld and Mathilda/Matthilde Neumann/Neuman.
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