* Author Thomas Chandler Haliburton wrote in his book of boys from King's College School in Windsor, Nova Scotia, playing "hurley on the ice" when he was a student there around 1800.
* In the year 1825 Sir John Franklin wrote that "The game of hockey played on the ice was the morning sport" while on Great Bear Lake during one of his Arctic expeditions.
* In 1843 a British Army officer in Kingston (Ontario) wrote "Began to skate this year, improved quickly and had great fun at hockey on the ice."
FOUNDATION OF MODERN ICE HOCKEY
- The development of the modern ice hockey centered in Montreal on March 3, 1875, the first organized indoor game played at Montreal's Victoria Rink by James Creighton and several McGill University students.
- In the year 1877, several McGill students, including Henry Joseph, Creighton, Richard F. Smith, W.F. Robertson, and W.L. Murray codified seven ice hockey rules.
- McGill University Hockey Club, the first ice hockey club, was founded in 1880.
