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The Coloured Hockey League was an all-black ice hockey league founded in Nova Scotia in 1894,[1] which featured teams from across Canada's Maritime Provinces. The league operated for several decades lasting until 1930.[2]
With as many as a dozen teams, over 400 African Canadian players from across Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island participated in competition.[3] The Coloured Hockey League is credited by some as being the first league to allow the goaltender to leave his feet to cover a puck in 1900. This practice was not permitted elsewhere until the formation of the National Hockey League in 1917.[4] In their book Black Ice: The Lost History of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes, 1895-1925, historians George and Darril Fosty also claim that the first player to use the slapshot was Eddie Martin of the Halifax Eurekas 100 years ago.[3]
References
- ^ Black hockey hall of fame proposed for Dartmouth, CBC Sports, August 26, 2006
- ^ Wyshynski, Greg, The real roots of hockey, thefourthperiod.com, September 12, 2006
- ^ a b Martins, Daniel, Hockey historian credits black player with first slapshot, CanWest News Service, January 31, 2007
- ^ birthplaceofhockey.com, Garth Vaughan © 2001
External links
- Black Ice: The Lost History of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes, 1895-1925
- Firsts in Black Hockey for Maritime Provinces, Canada
- The Colored Hockey Championship of the Maritimes
- The Black Ice Project
- Canadian Historians Release Coloured League Rosters
- Trailblazers Honoured
- The Society of North American Hockey Historians And Researchers -Leaders In Black Hockey Research
Categories:- Defunct ice hockey leagues in New Brunswick
- Defunct ice hockey leagues in Prince Edward Island
- History of Blacks in Canada
- Defunct ice hockey leagues in Nova Scotia
- African American sports history
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