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==Nova Scotia==
==Nova Scotia==
A meeting of the Halifax Royal Blue hockey club was held on January 13, 1888. The following officers were elected: Capt. A.S. Thompson (re-elected), Vice-capt. J.J. O'Bryan (re-elected), Sec'y R.B. Elliott. Managing committee: C.W. Kelly, John O'Bryan, and A.S. Smith, with the officers ex officio. At the Snow Shoe drive, scheduled for next Wednesday, a match was to be played between the association and the Snow Shoe club, teams to be captained by Thompson and O'Brien respectively.<ref>''Halifax Herald'', 1888-01-14</ref> It was postponed to January 21. No mention was made of a hockey game.
A meeting of the Halifax Royal Blue hockey club was held on January 13, 1888. The following officers were elected: Capt. A.S. Thompson (re-elected), Vice-capt. J.J. O'Bryan (re-elected), Sec'y R.B. Elliott. Managing committee: C.W. Kelly, John O'Bryan, and A.S. Smith, with the officers ex officio. At the Snow Shoe drive, scheduled for next Wednesday, a match was to be played between the association and the Snow Shoe club, teams to be captained by Thompson and O'Brien respectively.<ref>''Halifax Herald'', 1888-01-14</ref> It was postponed to January 21. No mention was made of a hockey game. The first documented hockey game in Windsor was played on February 21, 1888.


*1/7: Dartmouth Knockabouts - Halifax Britannias 0:0<ref>''Acadian Recorder'', 1888-01-09</ref>
*1/7: Dartmouth Knockabouts - Halifax Britannias 0:0<ref>''Acadian Recorder'', 1888-01-09</ref>
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Chebuctos roster: J. Young (captain), C. Patterson, Walter Faulkner, F. Young. W. Graham, J. Hyde, George Pyke. Wanderers roster: W.A. Henry (captain), L.J. Fuller, H. Wylde, W. Neal, H. Hart, W.A. Duffus, F. Salter.  
Chebuctos roster: J. Young (captain), C. Patterson, Walter Faulkner, F. Young. W. Graham, J. Hyde, George Pyke. Wanderers roster: W.A. Henry (captain), L.J. Fuller, H. Wylde, W. Neal, H. Hart, W.A. Duffus, F. Salter.  
*2/20: Dartmouth Knockabouts - Halifax Britannias @ Dartmouth<ref>''Halifax Daily Echo'', 1888-02-20</ref>
*2/20: Dartmouth Knockabouts - Halifax Britannias @ Dartmouth<ref>''Halifax Daily Echo'', 1888-02-20</ref>
*King's College School - Dartmouth Ramblers<ref>Windsor, Nova Scotia - The Birthplace of Hockey? - Bill Fitsell</ref>
*2/29: '''Dartmouth Chebuctos''' - Halifax Royal Blues 6:2 @ Dartmouth<ref>''Halifax Daily Echo'', 1888-03-01</ref>
*2/29: '''Dartmouth Chebuctos''' - Halifax Royal Blues 6:2 @ Dartmouth<ref>''Halifax Daily Echo'', 1888-03-01</ref>
*3/7: Dartmouth Chebuctos - Dalhousie University<ref>''Halifax Herald'', 1888-03-12</ref>
*3/7: Dartmouth Chebuctos - Dalhousie University<ref>''Halifax Herald'', 1888-03-12</ref>

Latest revision as of 12:55, 28 December 2021

This was the 1888 ice hockey season in the Canadian Maritimes:

Nova Scotia

A meeting of the Halifax Royal Blue hockey club was held on January 13, 1888. The following officers were elected: Capt. A.S. Thompson (re-elected), Vice-capt. J.J. O'Bryan (re-elected), Sec'y R.B. Elliott. Managing committee: C.W. Kelly, John O'Bryan, and A.S. Smith, with the officers ex officio. At the Snow Shoe drive, scheduled for next Wednesday, a match was to be played between the association and the Snow Shoe club, teams to be captained by Thompson and O'Brien respectively.[1] It was postponed to January 21. No mention was made of a hockey game. The first documented hockey game in Windsor was played on February 21, 1888.

  • 1/7: Dartmouth Knockabouts - Halifax Britannias 0:0[2]
  • 1/27: Dartmouth Chebuctos beat Dartmouth Knockabouts[3]
  • 2/15: Dartmouth Chebuctos - Halifax Wanderers 5:0[4]

Chebuctos roster: J. Young (captain), C. Patterson, Walter Faulkner, F. Young. W. Graham, J. Hyde, George Pyke. Wanderers roster: W.A. Henry (captain), L.J. Fuller, H. Wylde, W. Neal, H. Hart, W.A. Duffus, F. Salter.

  • 2/20: Dartmouth Knockabouts - Halifax Britannias @ Dartmouth[5]
  • King's College School - Dartmouth Ramblers[6]
  • 2/29: Dartmouth Chebuctos - Halifax Royal Blues 6:2 @ Dartmouth[7]
  • 3/7: Dartmouth Chebuctos - Dalhousie University[8]
  • 3/12: Halifax Royal Blues - Dartmouth Knockabouts 2:1 @ Dartmouth[9]
  • 3/14: Halifax Wanderers - Halifax Royal Blues 3:2 OT[10]

Wanderers roster: Henry, Neal, Oxley, Jarvis, Hart, Salter, Wylde. Royal Blues roster: Thompson, McInnis, Creighton, Bishop, Kelly, Brady, Egan.

  • 3/15: Windsor Hockey Club - Dartmouth Chebuctos 3:3 @ Windsor[11]

Windsor roster: R. Fleming (capt.), F.W. Dimock, F. Lynch, L McCallum, Grant Goudge, G. Travis, F. Wilson. Chebuctos roster: J. Hyde (capt.), C. Patterson, W. Faulkner, J.E. Brown, Frank Young, Walter Graham, G. Pyke.

  • 3/16: Bank of Montreal - Merchants' Bank 5:2 - Duffus and Jarvis of BoM and Clarke and McKay of Merchants' played well @ Halifax[11]
  • 3/19: Halifax Wanderers - Dartmouth Knockabouts 4:0[12]

Wanderers roster: W.A. Henry (capt.), W.A. Duffus, G.C. Hart, E.W. Jarvis, W.H. Neal Jr., H.M. Wylde, G.A. Taylor. Knockabouts roster: G.D. Wilson (capt.), Jas. T. Dustan, G.R. Fairbanks, J.L. Wilson, E. Elliot, A.W.F. McKay, P.J. Strong.

  • 3/21: Halifax Wanderers - Dalhousie University - cancelled due to poor ice[13]

Contemporary accounts

  • Dartmouth Chebuctos

    Dartmouth Chebuctos

  • The March 12, 1888, edition of the Halifax Herald.

    The March 12, 1888, edition of the Halifax Herald.

References

  1. ↑ Halifax Herald, 1888-01-14
  2. ↑ Acadian Recorder, 1888-01-09
  3. ↑ Halifax Herald, 1888-01-28
  4. ↑ Acadian Recorder, 1888-02-16
  5. ↑ Halifax Daily Echo, 1888-02-20
  6. ↑ Windsor, Nova Scotia - The Birthplace of Hockey? - Bill Fitsell
  7. ↑ Halifax Daily Echo, 1888-03-01
  8. ↑ Halifax Herald, 1888-03-12
  9. ↑ Halifax Daily Echo, 1888-03-13
  10. ↑ Halifax Daily Echo, 1888-03-15
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Halifax Daily Echo, 1888-03-17
  12. ↑ Halifax Daily Echo, 1888-03-20
  13. ↑ Halifax Daily Echo, 1888-03-21
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