Now You Know Canada by Doug Lennox

Author:Doug Lennox
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2017-05-09T04:00:00+00:00

What teams were involved in the world’s first hockey championship?

In 1883 at Montreal’s inaugural Winter Carnival, the world’s first hockey championship was held, pitting three teams against one another: the Montreal Victorias, the McGill University Hockey Club, and a team from Quebec City. The three teams vied for the sterling silver Carnival Cup. McGill University won the series. The championship was restaged at the carnival in 1884 and 1885.

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Did you know …

that the second organized hockey team in history was the Montreal Victorias, which debuted in 1881 and later went on to win the Stanley Cup in 1895, holding it from that year until 1899 (except for a challenge loss to the Winnipeg Victorias in 1896), when the team lost it for good to the Montreal Shamrocks?

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