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A Brief History Of International Ice Hockey
In the 19th century, the sport of ice hockey was first played in the eastern part of Canada, and by the latter part of the century, the new winter game began spreading to other countries like the United States, Great Britain, and Czechoslovakia. As the 20th century unfolded, Sweden, Finland, and the Soviet Union became fully involved with the game. During that same period, a North American league, the National Hockey League (NHL), and two major international competitions such as the World Ice Hockey Championship, and the Winter Olympics' Ice Hockey Tournament were introduced to the hockey world. Today, in the 21st century, people from all corners of the globe participate in the game, and this book illustrates on how the sport was formed and developed in the some of the top ice hockey nations in the world.
Historical Connections: Between My Family and the Mother Country
During the early part of the 19th century, the author Garry Glave's great-great-grandfather, Stephen Glave, was born and raised in Yorkshire, England and in 1832 he travelled to Jamaica to work for the British government. There he met his future wife, Katherine Witty Waugh, who was a Black Jamaican-born woman. Garry's great-great-grandmother was a free woman, but her ancestors had been slaves, brought from Africa to Jamaica via Britain's Transatlantic Slave Trade. By the late 1830s, the British government had abolished slavery in Jamaica and around that time, Charles Woofe Glave, who was the author's great-grandfather, was born in Manchester, Jamaica. During the 1860s, Garry's great-grandaun...
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