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Black Ice

The Lost History of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes, 1895-1925 (20th anniversary edition)

by (author) George Robert Fosty & Darril W. Fosty

Publisher
Nimbus Publishing
Initial publish date
Feb 2025
Category
African American, Hockey
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781774713778
    Publish Date
    Feb 2025
    List Price
    $27.95

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Description

Expanded and revised edition of the pioneering work of history about the Colored Hockey League, founded in Halifax, NS. Now a documentary film.

The Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes was formed in 1895 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, twenty-five years before the Negro baseball leagues in the United States, and twenty-two years before the birth of the National Hockey League.

The Colored League would emerge as a premier force in Canadian hockey and supply the resilience necessary to preserve a unique culture that exists to this day. Unfortunately the league's contributions were conveniently ignored, or simply stolen, as white teams and hockey officials appropriated elements of the Black players' style or sought to take credit for Black hockey innovations.

This revised and expanded twentieth-anniversary edition of Black Ice remains the only book ever written on the history of the Colored Hockey League. A powerful read, this edition features newly uncovered research and historic documentation on the history of the Colored Hockey League, Black hockey from the 1920s through to the mid-1950s, as well as previously undocumented efforts to create a professional Black hockey team to compete for the Stanley Cup.

Black Ice: 20th Anniversary Edition is an important book that rewrites Canadian and American hockey history for a whole new generation.

About the authors

George Robert Fosty is a Canadian historian and documentary filmmaker currently living in New York City. He was born in Prince Rupert, British Columbia, and studied at the University of Hawaii at Hilo and the London City Polytechnic in England.

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Darril W. Fosty is a Canadian historian and documentary filmmaker currently living in York Beach, Maine. He was born in British Columbia and studied history and journalism at Western Washington University in Washington.

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