FROM: The Daily Colonist, Victoria, B.C., February 23, 1913
Category Archives: From The Past
The Game Of Rink Hockey
FROM: “My Strange Rescue, and other Stories of Sport and Adventure in Canada,” by J. MacDonald Oxley, 1895, Thomas Nelson and Sons. New York, London and Edinburgh.
The portion below is from an eight page chapter by the same title.
Hockey As A Feminine Game
Typical Game As Played By Young Society Women
FROM: Grand Forks Miner, Grand Forks, B.C., April 10, 1897
Source: BC Historical Newspapers
Was Earliest Hockey In The Kootenay Area In Nelson in 1893?
FROM: The Miner, Nelson, B.C., March 4, 1893
It seems that the earliest indication of hockey being played in the Kootenay area may have been in 1893 in Nelson, B.C., as this newspaper article recounts.
Source: BC Historical Newspapers
A Day Upon The Ice
FROM: The British Columbian, New Westminister, B.C., January 16, 1862
Andrew Phillip Chernoff 