HIST 2280 - Hockey in Canadian
History Final Exam and All Correct
Answers (2025-2026)
The most sought-after hockey sticks at the end of the 19th century were produced by... - Answer
Mi'kmaq
Hockey at the end of the 19th century and early 20th was officially an "on-side" game (ex. The
puck could not be passed forward); an element that was directly borrowed from: - Answer
Rugby
Lord Stanley's daughters name - Answer Isobel Stanley
True or False: Working class men were a central part of the first modern game in Montreal -
Answer False
During Montreal's Winter Carnivals of the 1880's hockey became organized and... - Answer
Institutionalized
He organized the first "modern" game and also drafted the first official rules of hockey. - Answer
James Creighton
Teams like the Dartmouth Jubilees, Halifax Eurekas, and the afrcaville Seasides competed in
Nova Scotias: - Answer The Colored Hockey League
Which folk game did NOT inform hockey's evolution?
- Several folk games directly informed the gradual evolution of what we know as ice hockey.
- These games included...
A. Ricket: Popular in Halifax which used a cricket ball on ice.
B. Shinty: From the Scottish Highlands played with a ball and sticks
C. Hurling: A Gaelic game played in Ireland with a ball and sticks
, True or False: Lord Stanleys appearance at a game during Montreal's Winter Carnival forced play
to stop so that "God Save the Queen" could be sung in his honour - Answer True
The first modern game was played on March 3, 1875 at... - Answer Montreal's Victoria Skating
Rink
Conn Smythe and the rest of the University of Toronto Varsity Hockey team enlisted only four
days after they had won the ontario championship. This was a good example of: - Answer Pals'
Battalions
Rudyard Kiplings line - "There is one track for all, one life for each to give. Who stand if freedom
fall? Who die if England live?" - was quoted by this former Allan Cup Champion just before he
died at the front during WWI. His brother later donated the Memorial Cup: - Answer George
Richardson
True or False: The Winnipeg Falcons - a team made up mostly by players of Icelandic heritage -
won Canada's first olympic gold medal in hockey at the 1920 summer olympic games in
Antwerp, Belgium. - Answer True
In 1909, this team shelled out a fortune to obtain star players such as the Patrick brothers,
Newsy Lalonde and Fred "Cyclone" Taylor: - Answer Renfrew Creamery Kings
This town was the smallest community ever to win the Stanley Cup: - Answer Kenora Thistle
Canadians were left to defend themselves when the British Garrison left Canada in: - Answer
1871
Electricity was hugely important for the growth of the game and became available for majority
of Canadians by the: - Answer 1910s
When the Stanley Cup became property of the professionals, the best amateurs in Canada
began to compete for: - Answer The Allan Cup
While playing at the Montreal Shamrocks, this player wrote Hockey: Canadas Royal Winter
Game, in 1899 - Answer Arthur Farrell
History Final Exam and All Correct
Answers (2025-2026)
The most sought-after hockey sticks at the end of the 19th century were produced by... - Answer
Mi'kmaq
Hockey at the end of the 19th century and early 20th was officially an "on-side" game (ex. The
puck could not be passed forward); an element that was directly borrowed from: - Answer
Rugby
Lord Stanley's daughters name - Answer Isobel Stanley
True or False: Working class men were a central part of the first modern game in Montreal -
Answer False
During Montreal's Winter Carnivals of the 1880's hockey became organized and... - Answer
Institutionalized
He organized the first "modern" game and also drafted the first official rules of hockey. - Answer
James Creighton
Teams like the Dartmouth Jubilees, Halifax Eurekas, and the afrcaville Seasides competed in
Nova Scotias: - Answer The Colored Hockey League
Which folk game did NOT inform hockey's evolution?
- Several folk games directly informed the gradual evolution of what we know as ice hockey.
- These games included...
A. Ricket: Popular in Halifax which used a cricket ball on ice.
B. Shinty: From the Scottish Highlands played with a ball and sticks
C. Hurling: A Gaelic game played in Ireland with a ball and sticks
, True or False: Lord Stanleys appearance at a game during Montreal's Winter Carnival forced play
to stop so that "God Save the Queen" could be sung in his honour - Answer True
The first modern game was played on March 3, 1875 at... - Answer Montreal's Victoria Skating
Rink
Conn Smythe and the rest of the University of Toronto Varsity Hockey team enlisted only four
days after they had won the ontario championship. This was a good example of: - Answer Pals'
Battalions
Rudyard Kiplings line - "There is one track for all, one life for each to give. Who stand if freedom
fall? Who die if England live?" - was quoted by this former Allan Cup Champion just before he
died at the front during WWI. His brother later donated the Memorial Cup: - Answer George
Richardson
True or False: The Winnipeg Falcons - a team made up mostly by players of Icelandic heritage -
won Canada's first olympic gold medal in hockey at the 1920 summer olympic games in
Antwerp, Belgium. - Answer True
In 1909, this team shelled out a fortune to obtain star players such as the Patrick brothers,
Newsy Lalonde and Fred "Cyclone" Taylor: - Answer Renfrew Creamery Kings
This town was the smallest community ever to win the Stanley Cup: - Answer Kenora Thistle
Canadians were left to defend themselves when the British Garrison left Canada in: - Answer
1871
Electricity was hugely important for the growth of the game and became available for majority
of Canadians by the: - Answer 1910s
When the Stanley Cup became property of the professionals, the best amateurs in Canada
began to compete for: - Answer The Allan Cup
While playing at the Montreal Shamrocks, this player wrote Hockey: Canadas Royal Winter
Game, in 1899 - Answer Arthur Farrell
