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Nova
Scotian and Canadian Hockey History
Tap
into the romance of the game. Check out the roots of Canada’s great official winter
sport. This web site is your definitive guide to the origin of ice hockey – a
real treasure trove of information of the early game, photos of teams, players
and equipment. Learn about home-made wooden pucks, sticks hand-carved by the Mi’kmaq
of Acadia, and block skates forged by local blacksmiths as the game took form
in the early 1800s. Get in touch with world-famous Starr Hockey Skates made and
used in Nova Scotia a decade before the game was played in Montreal and two decades
before it reached Kingston, Ontario. Familiarize yourself with Windsor, Nova Scotia,
The Little Town of Big Firsts, one of America’s oldest and most outstanding towns
where much happened long before it happened elsewhere in Canada – including Ice
Hockey.

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Origin
of Ice Hockey

c.
1800, Ice Hockey had its origin in Windsor, Nova Scotia. King’s College School
Boys began adapting the Irish field game of Hurley to the ice…more

Evolution of Ice Hockey

Ice Hockey was not invented it was adapted and developed over a number of years,
even as it continues to develop now. “Hockey” skates, “Hockey”sticks, wooden “Hockey”pucks,
“Hockey” goal nets, and the early rules of the game all originated in Nova Scotia.
Nova Scotians were also first to use the forward pass and to allow the goal keeper
down on the ice to protect his “goal”….more

Hockeyists, Ice Hockey’s Early Players and
Promoters

Early
in the development of the game of Ice Hockey those playing the game became referred
to as ‘Hockeyists’. In the Hockeyists section we celebrate the men’s and women’s
teams, the Mi’kmaq and African Nova Scotian history of the sport and gave credit
to those pioneers of the game….more

Windsor,
Nova Scotia, Canada – History

Windsor,
Nova Scotia is referred to as "The Little Town of Big Firsts" because
of the several things that began here before they began elsewhere….more


NEW SECTION – Birthplace
– More History

Many visitors to our website wish to
know more about Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Haliburton Memorial Museum (Clifton
House) & Long
Pond (on Clifton House Grounds) and
KCS & King’s College. Accordingly, we are providing
expanded versions of these topics …more

NEW – Tommy’s New Block Skates children’s
book
by site author Garth Vaughan.
Illustrated by David Preston Smith. more
…

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