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Gidén, Carl.
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Hockey -- History.
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Gidén, Carl.
Hockey -- History.
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On the
origin
of
hockey
/ Carl Gidén, Patrick Houda and Jean-Patrice Martel.
by
Gidén, Carl.
Hockey Origin Publishing, 2014.
Call #:
796.962 G453o
Subjects
Hockey
-- History.
ISBN:
9780993799808 (pbk.)
Alternate title:
Origin
of
hockey
Description:
xv, 269 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography:
Bibliographical references at end of each chapter.
Summary:
"The debate about the
origin
of
hockey
appears to be as old as the debate about the
origin
of species, though if we compare the number of pages dedicated in every day's newspapers to
hockey
and those dedicated to animals and plants, the relative importance of each quickly becomes obvious (well, to
hockey
fans at least).
Hockey
historians have been looking for the smallest piece of evidence that would reveal the secrets of the
origin
of
hockey
. However a wealth of evidence is available as soon as one starts looking in the right place. This book does not present a new theory based on slivers of evidence. It is a presentation of known facts about the origins of
hockey
, based on tens of thousands of words, from hundreds of sources, written about
hockey
played on the ice, with skates, before Montreal's first recorded game. Carl Gidén is a medical doctor who has been researching the origins of
hockey
for more than two decades. He made news in 2008, together with Patrick Houda, when they announced their discovery of a reference to ice
hockey
played in 1839 on Chippawa Creek (Niagara Falls, Ontario). Sports journalist Patrick Houda has also been researching the origins of
hockey
for over two decades and teamed up with Gidén on several projects since the mid-1990s. It was the two of them who, from Sweden, wrote biographies for the main Canadian pioneers of
hockey
, including the eighteen players who participated in the first recorded game played in Montreal, in 1875"--Back cover.
Other authors:
Houda, Patrick.
Martel, Jean-Patrice.
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