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Hockeyists

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N.S. Ice Hockey

Ambassadors

Overview

Byron Weston

James Power

Dartmouth "Chebuctos"

Blaine N.
Sexton

H. Carlton Smith

John Dunlop

Gerald "Ged"
White

Ernie Mosher

Walter "Mutt"
Aker

Coming Soon:

Hockey

Journalism

the "good old

fashioned" way

Nova Scotia’s Hockey Ambassadors – Overview

In the “Nova Scotian Ambassadors” we showcase photos of some hockeyists
and teams that show us the equipment used as the recreational game of
their time progressed toward the hotly contested competitive game we know
today. It was a time when spectators were learning to understand the rules
of the game, to visually follow the puck and to develop an allegiance
to particular teams. Newspaper journalists had to develop new ways of
describing the action of a game they were learning about for the first
time as well. Some of their word pictures are hilariously funny when compared
to the descriptions we’ve come to accept as the norm in modern times.

Some "Nova Scotian Hockey Ambassadors" instrumental in introducing
the game of Ice Hockey to the world have already been discussed in the
Origin section:

1. The boys of King’s College School
who first started "playing
hurley on the ice on long pond" as told to us by Judge Thomas
Chandler Haliburton.

2. James George Aylwin Creighton’s
who introduced the game to Montreal and Ottawa.

3. Roddy McColl taught his fellow
RMC students the game in Kingston.

 
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