Birthplace of Ice Hockey

Windsor,  Nova  Scotia, Canada – c. 1800
by
Garth Vaughan © 2001
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Origin
  Evolution   Hockeyists
  Windsor

Birthplace
Overview


King’s
"Record"
Overview

Sports

Snowshoe
Club

Cricket

Athletic
Sports

Cogswell
Cricket Prize

Gymnasium

Football
(Rugby)

Season
End

Icy
"Three Elms" Path

Cricket
Pitch/Cattle

Vroom "Roomate"
Cricket

Fishing

Skating
Carnival

Weather and Other
Eulogy
– McCawley

New
Acadia

Grounds
and Woods

Windsor
Scenery

Electric
Light

Adjoining
Clifton

Ornamental
Trees

Filling
“Bog Pond”

 

King’s College Record

The WHHS would like to thank King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Library
– King’s College Archive
, for the use of the following excerpts from the Record,
the King’s College School Paper contributed to and run by the "boys"
of King’s College, Windsor, Nova Scotia. We would especially like to thank Patricia
L. Chalmers, Assistant Librarian of King’s College Archive for her extensive help,
interest and enthusiasm.

King’s "Record"

Sports

Jan
1879 – Start a Snowshoe Club


Feb
1879 – Three Elms Cricket Club


June
1879 – Athletic Sports


June
1879 – Cogswell Cricket Prize


Nov
1879 – Motion for a Gymnasium


Nov
1879 – Football/Rugby


Nov
1879 – Season End for Football/Rugby


Feb
1880 – Icy Path Passing the Three Elms


March
1880 – State of the Cricket Field

Vroom

"That Roomate of Mine"


June
1879 – Cricket


Sept
1879 – Fishing


Jan
1880 – Skating Carnival

Weather and Other

Feb
1879 – Eulogy –

President
of King’s College, the rev. George McCawley, D.D


Feb
1879 – New Acadia University


May
1879 – Easter Vacation, Grounds and Woods, Healthiness of the Academy


June
1879 – Windsor Scenery


Feb
1880 – Icy Path – Clifton Refference


Feb
1880 – Ornamental Trees – Clifton Refference


Oct.
1880 – Filling the “Bog Pond”




Excerpt From:
King’s College Record – Vol 1 and 2
King’s College, Halifax,
Nova Scotia, Library
– King’s College Archive

 

 
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