The original creator and Harvey is a guy named Grant Kelba, this is from 2019:
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Grant Kelba was 23 years old. He had already spent four years dressing up as Ralph the Dog for the Calgary Stampeders when he was introduced to the Flames, who were moving into a new arena called the Saddledome.
They were thinking about creating a team mascot, and had reached out to the mascot consultant community to come up with something memorable.
"They put a bunch of proposals in front of me, about six to eight inches high, and they said, so how does yours differ?" Kelba said in an interview Wednesday with David Gray on the Calgary Eyeopener.
Kelba told them, "I tell you what. Let me build it and just show up. I'll take all the risk. I'll take all of the issues, and if it doesn't work, you can just let me go and you're not stuck with a $4,000 costume."
The costume he built was for a new character Kelba called Harvey the Hound.
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The article goes on to talk about how he received a cool welcome when he arrived, and how his nephew took over after Kelba turned 40.
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5091940