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Overview

African-N.S.
Hockey Heritage

Coloured Champs
Firsts
NS Roots
Desire to Play
Population
Overcoming
Getting Started
Game Time/Travel
Acceptance
Accomplishments
Goal Tender...
Social Aspects
Criticism
Three Decades...
Integration
Wider Acceptance

A Brief History
Pictures

Firsts in Black Hockey for Maritime Provinces, Canada
by Garth Vaughan © 1999

1 - First Black Teams to play Ice Hockey - (Halifax/Dartmouth) -1895
2 - First Black Hockey Championship of World - (Halifax) - 1900
3 - First to allow goal tender to go to ice to stop puck - 1900
4 - First Black player integrated into white team - 1930s
- John "Buster" Paris (Windsor) - Windsor Town Senior League - 1937
- Billy Oliver (Wolfville) - Acadia - Valley Senior Hockey League - 1937
5 - First all-Black line in Pro Ice Hockey
-Manny MacIntyre (Devon, N.B.)+Herbie &Ozzie Carnegie(Ontario) - 1950s
6 - First Black Player in NHL - Willie O'Ree - (Fredericton) - Boston Bruins - 1957
7 - First Black Goal Tender in NHL - Eldon "Pokey" Reddick - (Halifax) - Winnipeg Jets -1986
8 - First Black Coach in Pro Ice Hockey - John Paris - (Windsor, N.S.) - Atlanta Knights - 1994
John was also First Black Head Coach in Triple A Midget Hockey, and First Black Head Coach and G.M. in Junior Major Hockey
He is now Head Coach and Assistant Director at I.M.G. Sports Academy in Florida.

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