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Adapted from Chapter 4 Thomas Ahearn and Warren Soper were local entrepreneurs who made their mark installing electric street lighting throughout Ottawa, and by extension to Ottawa’s hockey rinks, in 1885. By 1891, they were on to something new; a plan to bring spectators to hockey games. The two entrepreneurs had introduced the Ottawa Electric…

Adapted from Chapter 10 Half a world away from the hockey rinks of the capital, the 1st Canadian Division was preparing for battle. Ypres was the last remaining Belgian soil under allied control and the Canadians were about to enter the trenches in front of the town. Soon after the awful events of April 22,…

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…