George & Darril Fosty's Black Ice: The Lost History of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes, 1895-1925In 1895, The Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes was formed in Halifax, Nova Scotia. This was Twenty-five years before the Negro Baseball Leauges in the United States, and twenty-two years before the birth of the National Hockey League. The Colored League would emerge as a premier force in Canadian hockey and supply the resilience necessary to preserve a unique culture which exists to this day. Unfortunately their contributions were conveniently ignored, or simply stolen, as white teams and hockey officials, influenced by the black league, copied elements of the black style or sought to take self-credit for black hockey innovations. Black Ice is the first written record of the Colored Hockey League in the Maritimes. |
Contents
By Dr Henry Bishop | 1 |
The Maroon Colony p | 19 |
The Great Black Hope p | 43 |
Copyright | |
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