Info regarding the Halifax and Dartmouth settlers’ role in early Ice Hockey
Two of the most misquoted persons from the early Ice Hockey era are Joe Cope and Byron Weston. An entire mythology has been built around the fact that these two 1943 articles have been lost to the general public for more than 80 years. The boxed information is what proves the point.
Joe Cope says “Halifax” hockey was a 10-man game (which he played with Byron Weston and “others’ and perhaps James Creighton:
3. The SIHR reviews Windsor’s claim to being the ‘Birthplace’ of Ice Hockey. – https://hockey-stars.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2002_journal_subcommitee_report_on_windsor_as_hockey_birthplace.pdf
4. There is no way to understand Montreal hockey without acknowledging and reflecting on James Creighton’s relationship to Byron Weston: Must-Know Hockey Bros : Byron Weston and James Creighton
5. Here we show one example of how Halifax rules were clearly transferred to Montreal, and then permanently enshrined in the AHAC rules of 1886: Lineal Ice Hockey’s Rules Transfer: From Halifax 1860s to Montreal 1877 to AHAC 1886 This kind of hard data proves the AHAC rules were in fact a Halifax-Montreal charter, rather than the exclusively “Montreal” rules that many casual readers have been led to believe. As with the literal birth of Montreal hockey, the AHAC, modern Ice Hockey’s Magna Carta can be found on our Third Star archival page in its primary form.
The History of Early Ice Hockey 
