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In the early 1900s, Micmac Indians living in Nova Scotia claimed to
have played the earliest version of the Canadian sport. The Dictionary
of the Language of the Micmac Indians, published in 1888, described an
ice game called "oochamhunutk . . . Legends of the Micmacs referred to
an Indian ice game allegedly called "Alchamadijik" or "hurley" (the
"hurley" being the hockey stick).
Hurley, however, was an old Irish field game introduced into the area
by Irish immigrants, who came to work on the Shubenacadie Canal near
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia . . . although the Indians of Canada have been
credited with inventing the field game "lacrosse," descendants of the
first white settlers in Canada claim that ice hockey originated in
Europe. First, they point to 17th century Dutch painting that depict a
game being played on ice with sticks and skates. Next, they point out
that "shinny" (unorganized hockey) is directly related . . .
("shinning to your side" refers to the field hockey rule of always
playing right-handed). And field hockey was imported to Canada from
Great Britain and transposed to ice almost immediately. Even hurley .
. . originated in Ireland and was introduced to the Indians."
Hurling is Europe's oldest field game. When the Celts came to Ireland
as the last ice age was receding, they brought with them a unique
culture, their own language, music, script and unique pastimes. One of
these pastimes was a game now called hurling. It features in Irish
folklore to illustrate the deeds of heroic mystical figures and it is
chronicled as a distinct Irish pastime for at least 2,000 years.
Windsor’s (based in Canada) most outstanding citizen, Thomas Chandler
Haliburton, was born in 1796 and educated at King's College. He is the
first Canadian writer to be acclaimed internationally and is regarded
as the "Father of North American Humour". In Windsor, as early as
1836, in a book called The Clockmaker, he wrote of playing ball on
ice. Then, in 1844, in a book which he had published in London,
England called Attache, he reminisced about school days at King's
College and told of the noisy boys "...racin', yelpin', hollerin' and
whoopin' like mad with pleasure...", and "...the playground, with
games at base in the fields, or "hurley" on the long pond on the
ice...". This is the earliest known reference in the English language
to a stick ball game being played on ice in Canada. Since Nova
Scotia's newspapers chronicle the evolution of Ice Hockey from Ice
Hurley between 1800 and 1850, this designates Windsor as the
Birthplace of Hockey.
Source:
Forum Discussing on Origin of Hurley:
http://www.southerner.net/v1n1_99/discourse1.html
Details on Hurling:
http://www.denvergaels.com/hurling.htm
Inside Details of Hurley and Evolution of Hockey:
http://cnet.windsor.ns.ca/Pages/Hockey/history.html
Information on Hurling:
http://www.gaa.ie/sports/hurling/
About Hurling:
http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:r39dCpm1S74C:www.hurling.net/hurling/body.htm+Hurley+Game+field+hockey+ireland&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
How to play Hurling:
http://www.geocities.com/denhaaggaa/enhurling.htm
Hockey’s History:
http://cnet.windsor.ns.ca/Pages/Hockey/history.html
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Hope this helps. If you have any clarification, feel free to ask me.
I’ll me more than happy to answer you.
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