{"id":22023,"date":"2021-11-17T01:02:20","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T05:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=22023"},"modified":"2021-11-15T23:56:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T03:56:02","slug":"scoring-in-the-frozen-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/scoring-in-the-frozen-north\/","title":{"rendered":"scoring in the frozen north"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hockey team, Dawson City, 1905<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. Brrrr, it was real cold in 1905. Up in Dawson City, the guys put down their sticks and stopped flinging the rubber disk around long enough to let a local snap-shooter take this group photograph.<\/p>\n

David Shribman<\/a>, published it in his\u00a0review<\/a> of Tim Falconer’s book. “Klondikers<\/a>“, in the Globe and Mail’s<\/a> October 7, 2021 edition. These guys played hockey as the Dawson City Nuggets and came to Ottawa to try winning Lord Stanley’s cup.<\/p>\n

Shribman begins his review with this paragraph which nicely summarizes the team’s spirit, “If it is not the destination but the journey that matters, then consider the voyage a rag-tag assemblage undertook 116 years ago to Ottawa from Dawson City: on foot, on bicycles, on a narrow-gauge railway, on a steamer ship and on a dream and a prayer, across 5,630 kilometres by land and 1,600 by sea, all to lose two Stanley Cup matches of a primitive sport that nonetheless transformed the notion of hockey night in Canada into a national rite.”<\/p>\n

Exciting stuff even today. Read the rest of the review, and if you can, grab the book (buy it<\/a> or borrow it). My thanks to good friend, George Dunbar. for sharing this piece of Canadiana with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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