History was made February 28, 1999 at Long Pond with the re-actment of the first games of hockey.
A youth game held first between King's-Edgehill and the Halifax Grammar School resulted in a 6-1 victory for King's-Edgehill while the senior game between the Halifax Wanderers and Windsor Old-Timers ended in a 3-3 draw.
Both games were played under Halifax rules which involved wooden pucks, one piece hockey sticks and stones for goal posts.
Blair Hammond of Halifax was the guest referee.
This "regulation puck" was one of several old pucks that surfaced after the excavation of Long Pond in the fall of 1998. According to Bill Fitsell, hockey historian and former editor for the Society for International Hockey Research, in Kingston, Ontario, stated that the vulcanized puck was first defined one inch thick and three inches in diameter in Montreal back in 1886. No one has proven who manufactured and stamped the first regulation disc but the Montreal Canadian Rubber Co., which produced a number of products in 1875, may have been among the earlier manufacturers.