Hockey season may be over for the Canucks, but with a long history, the sport lives all year in our collections!
Women’s field hockey team, circa 1898
UBC women’s ice hockey, 1921
Hockey game against Czechoslovakia, 1980
1950s field hockey with Oxford-Cambridge
McGill women’s grass hockey, 1911
Canadian field hockey pioneer Dr. Harry Warren pictured with children (no date)
Smith Falls High School hockey (no date)
Women’s grass hockey, 1944
Ice hockey, 1939
Canadian women’s field hockey champions, 1980/81
If it’s the sounds of hockey you’re missing, we have an hour-long broadcast of a 1974 ice hockey game against Alberta you can listen to here.
Thanks to UBC for posting these. I have played Field Hockey for many years;likely with those two young boys next to Harry Warren, who was a Pioneer Builder of the Sport @ UBC, Vancouver and Canada. He is honoured in the Field Hockey Canada “Hall of Fame” & The Order of Canada.
The inaugural Olympic Hockey Competition for men was held in London in 1908 with England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales competing separately. After having made its first appearance at the London Games, hockey was subsequently dropped from the 1912 Stockholm Games after host nations were granted control over ‘optional sports’.