The Inside Story of the Old Ottawa Senators, 1883-1935
Adapted from Chapter 5 On a midwinter Saturday in 1899, four Ottawa hockey teams and their supporters boarded Canada Atlantic trains for Montreal. The Ottawa Hockey Club senior and intermediate teams, a team of bakers, and Ashbury school all had matches scheduled later that day in the “Mountain City.” This “great exodus of hockeyists,” as…
Adapted from Chapter 4 The 1890-91 season was by far the most ambitious yet in the short history of the Ottawa Hockey Club, which one year earlier had come under the wing of the new Ottawa Amateur Athletic Club. With this solid organizational base, the Hockey Club inspired the formation of the first Ottawa city…
On a brisk morning in February 1884 under a blue sky in Montreal, the Ottawas, for the first time as a representative team, took to the hard, clear ice of the McGill College grounds. Wearing red and black striped jerseys and caps and dark knickerbockers (breeches gathered in at the knee), they felt a surge…