Birthplace of Ice Hockey

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

T.C.H. Haliburton



Haliburton – age 40s

Haliburton – age 60s

Attaché Quote

Clifton House

TCH’s Birthplace

 



Quote from Tomas Chandler Haliburton’s book "Attaché – Sam Slick
in England"

– Published 1844 – in which Haliburton reminisces about his boyhood

at King’s Collegiate School c. 1800

…"Memory acts on thought like sudden heat on a dormant fly, it
wakes it from the dead, puts new life into it, and it stretches out its
wings and buzzes round as if it had never slept. When you see him, don’t
the old schoolmaster rise up before you as nateral as if it was only yesterday?
and the school room, and the noisy larkin’, happy holidays, and you boys
let out racin’, yelpin’, hollerin’ and whoopin’ like mad with pleasure;
and the playground, and the game at bass (base) in the fields or hurley
on the long pond on the ice
, or campin’ out a-night at Chester
lakes to fish."…

 

 
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