Black Ice

In 1895, The Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes was formed in Halifax, Nova Scotia. This was Twenty-five years before the Negro Baseball Leauges in the United States, and twenty-two years before the birth of the National Hockey League. The Colored League would emerge as a premier force in Canadian hockey and supply the resilience necessary to preserve a unique culture which exists to this day. Unfortunately their contributions were conveniently ignored, or simply stolen, as white teams and hockey officials, influenced by the black league, copied elements of the black style or sought to take self-credit for black hockey innovations. Black Ice is the first written record of the Colored Hockey League in the Maritimes.

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An amazing informational story about the coloured hockey leagues of the Maritimes, black athletes, and black history. Talking about the hockey teams in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Many black people came to Canada enslaved people mainly from the French West Indies. Coming to Nova Scotia during the founding of Louisbourg. Also the second way black people came to Nova Scotia was happening during the American revolution when the British had evacuated thousands of slaves from the revolution, who had fled to their lines. When black Canadians first started to see economic success and notoriety from the nation and internationally. Firstly was George “Old Chocolate” Godfrey through the sport of boxing. George Godfrey won the first heavyweight champion title in 1882. James Robinson Johnston was recognized as a brilliant student. After graduating in 1892 at the age of 16 he enrolled in Dalhousie University. Graduating in 1896 with a bachelor of letters then enrolled in dalhousie law school. There was an all black hockey team called “The Coloured Hockey League of the Maritimes” (CHL). Which was an all black league that was created by four black Baptist leaders and intellectuals in 1895. The league was designed to attract young black men to Sunday to worship by promising to play a hockey game between different rival churches. The group disbanded in 1911 but reformed in 1925 but fell apart by 1930. The League was soon seen as a potential support for equality.
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