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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…

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…