Dossier A 05 · who came to look
Long Pond and Its Chroniclers
The archived page was headed “Inspiration for Historians and Hockey Writers”. It is a visitors’ register: three photographs of people who made the trip, and a note of what each of them had written.
The register of visits
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Dr. Garth Vaughan, author of The Puck Starts Here, with Howard Dill at Long Pond in 1992. LP 006 V 1
Wrote The Puck Starts Here
A Windsor physician who made the book-length case for the town. The archived caption described the two men as promoting Windsor as the birthplace of hockey.
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Chris Cuthbert of CBC with Diane Cuthbert, interviewing Howard Dill at the farm for the book The Rink. The date of the interview was not recorded. LP 009 V 2
Wrote The Rink
A broadcaster who visited with Diane Cuthbert to interview Howard Dill. The resulting book described Long Pond as the reputed cradle of hockey and covered Dill’s collection of memorabilia.
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Ernie Fitzsimmons of Fredericton, New Brunswick, consulting statistician for Total Hockey, visiting Long Pond. The visit is undated. LP 003 V 3
Wrote Total Hockey: The Official Encyclopedia of the NHL
A consulting statistician for the encyclopedia, visiting Howard Dill and the pond.
The constant in every photograph
Howard Dill
Every visit on this page was a visit to one man’s farm. Howard Dill owned the land the pond sits on, kept one of the larger private collections of hockey material in Canada, and showed both to anyone who turned up. He is in the frame with the author, the broadcaster and the statistician alike.
He died in 2008. gameofhockey.com was published in his lifetime and in his name, under Long Pond Hockey Enterprises.
People went to Windsor, were shown the pond, and wrote about it afterwards.
Adjacent files
- A 02 Site of first hockey evidence The 1988 announcement at the pond, and the visitors’ book kept beside it. Archive
- A 06 Hockey Day in Canada, 2002 The day the visits stopped being individual and about three thousand people arrived at once. Archive