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Address: Windsor,
Nova Scotia,
Canada
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Ice Hockey was not invented, nor did it start on a certain day of a particular year. It originated circa 1800 with students at Canada's first college, King's College, when they adapted the exciting field game of Hurley to the ice of their favorite skating pond. They originated a new winter game, Ice Hurley, which gradually developed into Ice Hockey. Thomas Chandler Haliburton, of Windsor, who was the first Canadian to acquire international acclaim as a writer, and who wrote the first history of Nova Scotia, told of King's boys being first to play "hurley on the ice". This is the earliest reference in English literature to a stick-ball game being played on ice. The development of Ice Hurley into Ice Hockey is chronicled in the newspapers of Nova Scotia, the first province to be developed in the country. The first equipment with which Ice Hockey was played naturally developed in Nova Scotia as well. "Hockey" skates, "Hockey"sticks, wooden "Hockey"pucks, "Hockey" goal nets, as well as the position of Rover, and the early rules of the game all developed in Nova Scotia as one would expect. Nova Scotians were also first to use the forward pass and to allow the goal keeper down on the ice to protect his "goal".
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"THE BIRTHPLACE OF HOCKEY"
As well as being home to the some of the world's highest tides. But Windsor is best known as the Birthplace of Hockey. There is near - irrefutable evidence that it was here on Longpond that ice hockey had its origins.
It is in the writings of Judge Thomas Chandler Haliburton that the first known reference to a form of ice hockey can be found.
Ice Hockey is Canada's great winter game and Haliburton's quote is the earliest known reference to a stick-ball game being played on ice in Canada. Nova Scotia's newspapers chronicle the development of Ice Hockey from Ice Hurley, between 1800 and 1850, thus designating Windsor as the birthplace of Ice Hockey. With boys attending King's College School from all over the British Empire, it was only natural that once the game of Ice Hurley got underway, graduates of the school would spread love of the game far and wide. Many of the students attending King's College in Windsor, N.S. were from the nearby Halifax-Dartmouth area. During the 1800 - 1850 era there were many accounts in the Halifax papers of the game being played on Halifax's North West Arm, the Dartmouth Lakes and the frozen inlets of Halifax Harbour which lies between the two towns. Many of those games involved members of the military and new immigrant Irish workers.
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