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The Game of Hockey

ISSUE 00110 AUG 2026WINDSOR, NS44°59′N 64°08′W

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Dossier A 04 · the two school sides

School Re-enactment Teams

The youth match of 28 February 1999 was played between King’s-Edgehill School and Halifax Grammar School. Both team sheets are reproduced as the archived page printed them.

Team sheets

Names, spellings and row order are as the archived page published them in 1999. Individuals in the photographs are not identified.

King’s-Edgehill School

Won 6 – 1

A school team group photograph taken outdoors on ice, players kneeling in front and adults standing behind.
The King’s-Edgehill School side at the 1999 re-enactment. LP 005
Front row, left to right
  1. Brad Andrews
  2. Brandon Kyle
  3. Jim Mullan
  4. Jim Gilbert
  5. Nathanael Oram
  6. Joe Mellanson
  7. Andrew Home
Back row, left to right
  1. Mrs Molly Penaluna
  2. Mr David Penaluna, headmaster
  3. George Jordan, CBC Mainstreet

The school was in its bicentennial decade; the 1988 announcement had been made on its campus eleven years earlier.

Halifax Grammar School

Lost 1 – 6

A second school team group photograph on the ice, players in dark kit with wooden sticks.
The Halifax Grammar School side at the 1999 re-enactment. LP 004
Front row
  1. B. J. Fourgere
  2. David Stewart
  3. Michael DeGrasse
  4. Stephanie Conde
  5. Jeff Englehutt
  6. Andy Norman
Back row
  1. Drew Vodrey
  2. David Cohen

The archived page noted that James Creighton, whom it called the father of organised hockey, had his early education at this school.

The two lines the page closed on

The combination of verified sources gives historical credence to Nova Scotia’s claim to being the birthplace of Canadian hockey.

A. J. “Sandy” Young Sport historian, Dalhousie University

Hockey was born and lives right here!

David Battistella Visitor, Toronto, November 1999

A historian’s careful phrasing, and a visitor’s enthusiasm.

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