On 23 Feb 2014, at 22:11, "Chris Mitchell" <chris.mitch...@which.net> wrote: > > I have a distant family connection with (ice) hockey in Canada. I'm > related to the Stanley family who created the Stanley Cup. My 3 times > great grandfather was the 13th Earl of Derby and it was his grandson, > the 16th Earl who donated the cup during his time as Governor General > to Canada. Apparently many of his family members took to the game. > > Sadly, my lineage is somewhat doubtful as my grandfather didn't marry > my grandmother until 5 years after my mother (whose birth certificate > gives her surname as Stanley) was born. He had to wait until his first > wife died. He had been a naughty boy at some point, being defrocked as > a Church of England curate (we're desperately trying to find out the > facts of the defrocking!). Still, he did all right - he was 64 when my > mother was born and my grandmother was 23...
Your curate had this stroke of luck: His granddad invented the puck. To show he was manly The Reverend Stanley Taught nice English girls how to pray. B > >> On 22 February 2014 22:31, knarf <knarftheria...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Many cities and towns lay claim to holding the first hockey game. Halifax >> thinks they had it. Montreal does, too. A very plausible theory has the >> first game in Kingston, Ontario between Montreal's McGill University (an >> alma mater of mine, which is why it's likely true) and Royal Military >> College. >> >> Truth is it evolved from earlier forms of shinny or grass hockey so it's a >> matter of conjecture as to when it crystalized into ice hockey. >> >> Whatever, we've been playing it for a long time and the game almost >> certainly began somewhere here (although some New England town claims it, >> too!). I think it's great that it's become so internationally loved. >> >> Favourite hockey joke, care of Rodney Dangerfield: "I went to a fight the >> other night and a hockey game broke out." >> >> Cheers, >> frank >> >> >> >>> On 22 February, 2014 4:31:45 PM EST, Paul Stenquist >>> <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> wrote: >>> It seems as though the first organized ice hockey game may have been >>> played in Montreal in 1975. It was probably a variant of field hockey >>> type games played in Ireland and Scotland. Oxford University in the UK >>> started playing ice hockey in 1885. Yale and John Hopkins in the U.S. >>> started playing in 1893. The University of Michigan and Michigan State >>> University played their first varsity hockey game in 1922. >>>> On Feb 22, 2014, at 3:59 PM, knarf <knarftheria...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> The Americans always have strong teams and you always bring your best >>> game to us. >>>> >>>> For a hundred years or more hockey has been "our game". While we >>> weren't watching the rest of the world (the cold world, anyway) started >>> playing and improving and all of a sudden thirty years ago guys with >>> names like Mogilny, Federov, Salming, Hasek and Koivu started playing >>> here and dominating. >>>> >>>> Oh yeah, guys like Brian Leech, too. >>>> >>>> It was a shock. >>>> >>>> When I was a kid every NHL player was Canadian except two Americans >>> and they were journeymen. >>>> >>>> Now I doubt that Canadians comprise more than 50% of the league, >>> probably less. >>>> >>>> Hockey is engrained in our national psyche in a way you can't >>> imagine; like baseball might have been in the US up to the 1950s. >>>> >>>> So when we win internationally it's a big deal around here. And to >>> beat our close friends and natural rivals it's all the sweeter. >>>> >>>> :-) >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> frank >>>> >>>> On 22 February, 2014 2:31:56 PM EST, "Daniel J. Matyola" >>> <danmaty...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> Well, that's about as surprising as the Dutch wins in speed skating. >>> >>>>> <G> >>>>> Dan Matyola >>>>> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola >>>>> >>>>>>> On 21/02/2014, knarf <knarftheria...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>> Men's. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Women's. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Canada vs. USA. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 'Nuff said... >>>> >>>> "Analysis kills spontaneity." -- Henri-Frederic Amiel >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>> PDML@pdml.net >>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above >>> and follow the directions. >> >> "Analysis kills spontaneity." -- Henri-Frederic Amiel >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
