Any hockey history buffs in the house?

Question

Hi, all.

I'm working on digitizing a book written about an ancestor of mine and in Chapter 2 it talks about my ancestor's friend, a woman named Mrs. Beatty. It states that Mrs. Beatty's husband played for the Cobalt Silver Kings hockey team circa 1910. I don't have a first name for Mrs. Beatty or her husband, or a firm date, and my Google-Fu isn't helping narrow things down. I've only found one roster for the Cobalt Silver Kings and it didn't include anyone named Beatty.

As I will be mentioning Mrs Beatty when I update my great-grandmother's biography, I'd like to be able to link the profiles correctly.

Answer 1

I'm an avid hockey fan and history buff. I did a search through hockeydb.com.  The Cobalt Silver Kings only played for one season, it looks like they became the Quebec Bulldogs starting in 1910. Looking at the rosters for I didn't see the Beatty name on any of them. I also searched for the Beatty name and didn't see one listed on any team for that time frame. Are you sure about the name?

Comments

You would have noticed Beattie in your search.  I tried simple google searches under that name and did not see anything.

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I'm getting the info from a book, but the context is admittedly a little fuzzy. Here's what it says:

On the evening of January 5, 1910, the National Hockey Association (the forerunner of the National Hockey League) began its first season before three thousand fans in a small, noisy firetrap called the Jubilee Rink in Montreal. The NHA was formed following a disagreement among owners of teams in the professional Eastern Canada Hockey Association and included the Montreal Wanderers, who defected from the older league, the powerful Renfrew Millionaires, the Silver Seven team from Cobalt, and the Haileybury team from Ontario's booming mining belt. Some of the wildest games in the history of Canadian sports took place in the raw, icy cold, silver-and-gold rich towns of Cobalt and Haileybury. The Cobalt team won the Stanley Cup in 1911, but much hockey memorabilia was lost in a great fire in Cobalt in 1912.

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On one snowshoeing expedition, Evelyn was to prove her courage in the face of danger. She and a friend, Mrs. Beatty, whose husband played hockey on the Cobalt team, set out one afternoon for a short hike.

Answer 2

Hi Andrea,

Kristen Louca might be able to help out. She's been categorizing hockey teams and players in Canada.

Answer 3

ice hockey or field hockey?

Comments

Ice hockey.