 Marchildon was named to Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1976, then was inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 1983, in its initial year, and the Penetanguishene Sports Hall of Fame, in the city of his birth, in 1987.Marchildon was later inducted into the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 1996.He died in Toronto on January 10, 1997, at age 83.