Hockey fever is alive and well in Vancouver, despite last night’s less than desirable results in Boston. So for all you hockey history buffs out there, we have a challenge for you:
We have two photographs in the Chung Collection that are inscribed on the back as being the “CPR Hockey Team”, taken in 1928. The photo above shows the team posing on the deck of the Empress of Canada. We do not appear to have any other records of this team in the collection, nor have we been able to find any references to the team in secondary sources. Does anyone know this piece hockey/CPR history? Did the CPR have a hockey team, or perhaps this was a team being sponsored by the CPR? If you know, we’d love to hear from you! Email us at chung.collection@ubc.ca.
The records for the two photographs can be read here and here. Click on the thumbnails to see a larger version.