1855 BRITISH RIFLEMEN INVENT GAME OF ICE HOCKEY?
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Today's Canadian Headline...
1855 BRITISH RIFLEMEN INVENT GAME OF ICE HOCKEY?Kingston Ontario - Soldiers of the Royal Canadian Rifles at the Tête
du Pont barracks clear ice from Lake Ontario and use field hockey
sticks and lacrosse balls to play first game of ice hockey; there are
also Montreal claims of March 1875 and 1880, and there is proof
that the Irish game of hurley, a form of field hockey, was played on
ice at King's College, Windsor, Nova Scotia, in the early 1800s. Old
Dutch paintings also show youths hitting balls with sticks on
frozen canals.
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“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions.” Wm O. Douglas
“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions.” Wm O. Douglas
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Today's Canadian Headline...
1855 BRITISH RIFLEMEN INVENT GAME OF ICE HOCKEY?Kingston Ontario - Soldiers of the Royal Canadian Rifles at the Tête
du Pont barracks clear ice from Lake Ontario and use field hockey
sticks and lacrosse balls to play first game of ice hockey; there are
also Montreal claims of March 1875 and 1880, and there is proof
that the Irish game of hurley, a form of field hockey, was played on
ice at King's College, Windsor, Nova Scotia, in the early 1800s. Old
Dutch paintings also show youths hitting balls with sticks on
frozen canals.
–--
“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions.” Wm O. Douglas
“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions.” Wm O. Douglas
