About Me
- stanelycup16
- After lord stanley of preston was appointed by Queen Victoria as Governor General of Canada 11, 1888, he and his family became highly enthusiastic about ice hockey. Stanley was first exposed to the game at Montreal”s 1889 Winter Carnival, where he saw the montreal Victorias play the Montreal Hockey Club The Montreal Gazette reported that he "expressed his great delight with the game of hockey and the expertise of the players". During that time, organized ice hockey in Canada was still in its infancy and only Montreal and Ottawa had anything resembling leagues Stanley's entire family became active in ice hockey. Two of his sons, Arthur and Algernon, formed a new team called the Ottawa Rideau Hall Rebels. Arthur also played a key role in the formation of what later became known as the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA), and would go on to be the founder of ice hockey in Great Britain. Arthur and Algernon persuaded their father to donate a trophy to be "an outward and visible sign of the hockey championship".Stanley sent the following message to the victory celebration held on March 18, 1892, at Ottawa's Russell Hotel for the three-time champion Ottawa Hockey Club