Shooting for a place in history Canada’s game started in Niagara Falls, if you believe what a pair of Swedish researchers have uncovered.<\/p>\n
Ask hockey historians where the birthplace of hockey is and the most common answers you’ll hear are Kingston, Montreal and Windsor, N. S. Niagara Falls wasn’t even on the radar.<\/p>\n
But a recent discovery in a 162-year-old book written by a British soldier has suddenly put Niagara into the field as one of the first locations to host an ice hockey match.<\/p>\n
The passage, written by Capt. Richard Levinge, describes a jovial scene on Chippawa Creek where 80 or more soldiers split into two teams to play “hockey on ice.” The creek, known now as the Welland River, is a tributary of the Niagara River located in the Niagara Falls neighbourhood of Chippawa.<\/p>\n
Though the book in question, “The Echoes From the Backwood; or Sketches Of Transatlantic Life,” was published in London in 1846, the historical significance of a single paragraph on page 250 wasn’t discovered until July 10 this year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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