Women on Ice by Wayne Norton

Author:Wayne Norton [Norton, Wayne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-55380-285-3
Publisher: Ronsdale Press
Published: 2009-03-05T16:00:00+00:00

Alpine Cup

The problem was fundamentally jurisdictional. The Alberta Amateur Hockey Association felt that its prerogatives were being trampled upon. It announced just a few days after the 1921 carnival ended that a new league structure would be in place for 1922, which would henceforth determine the women’s provincial championship of Alberta. The apparent intention of the AAHA in creating the league was to make it clear to the Banff Winter Sports Association that the provincial organization did “not countenance the Banff Winter Carnival tournament as carrying the provincial championship at all.”

And even before the outcome of the 1921 women’s tournament was decided, the Alpine Club, recognizing that it had become involved in a jurisdictional dispute, issued a statement to clarify its intentions for the Alpine Cup. The club’s president was then a resident of Victoria, which may explain why the announcement appears to have been reported only by the Victoria Daily Colonist. Stating that the cup was to be played for either at the Banff Carnival or anywhere else that the Alpine Club decided, the executive of the club declared that it was their intention “to make the cup of the same standing for ladies’ hockey as the famous Stanley Cup” was for men’s hockey. For the first time in Canadian sports history a trophy was available to symbolize national supremacy in women’s ice hockey. But would the combined efforts of the Alpine Club and the Banff Winter Sports Committee be enough to convince women’s hockey teams from across the nation to legitimize the trophy by competing for it during the winter carnival? It seems not. With the single exception of a team from Manitoba, the Banff tournament in all its years of operation did not succeed in attracting teams from beyond its base in Alberta and British Columbia. The confusion remained for several years about precisely what title the holders of the Alpine Cup were legitimately able to claim.

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