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  Montreal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Montreal is situated in the south western corner of Quebec approximately 270 kilometres (168 miles) southwest of Quebec City, the provincial capital, and 190 kilometres (118 miles) east of Ottawa, the federal capital.
Montreal was incorporated as a city in 1832.
Montreal is known as a Queer or Gay-friendly city.
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 Montreal - Biocrawler definition:Montreal - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Montreal has a substantial anglophone minority and an increasing population of allophones (those whose first language is neither English nor French), including both ethnic communities with deep historical roots and substantial numbers of recent immigrants of whom a substantial number are integrated into the French-speaking community.
Montreal is situated in the southwest of Quebec, approximately 200 kilometres (120 miles) southwest of Quebec City, the provincial capital, and 150 kilometres (90 miles) east of Ottawa, the federal capital.
Montreal is also home to the Montreal Canadiens, one of the oldest teams of the NHL and a member of the 'Original Six'.
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 Stanley Cup
On March 8, 1895, the Montreal Victorias won the league title, and thus the Stanley Cup, but the challenge match, which was scheduled earlier for the next day, was to be between the previous year's champion and the university squad.
The 1909 saw the departure of the Montreal AAA and the Montreal Victorias, the two remaining amateur teams, from the ECAHA, and thus the ECAHA dropped the "Amateur" from their name, becoming an all-pro league.
In 1966, the Montreal Canadiens was misspelled as "Montreal Canadiene".
publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/s/st/stanley_cup.html   (3270 words)

  
 [ruv.net] Freelance Designer : : Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Montreal or Montréal With a population of 1,812,800 people, it is the largest city and primary economic engine of the province of Quebec, of which it constitutes an administrative region.
Montreal was the capital of the United Province of Canada from 1844 to 1849, bringing even more English-speaking immigrants: Late Loyalists, Irish, Scottish, and English.
Montreal proper will be home to about 1.6 million people after the demerger referendum of June 2004, which comes into effect on 1 January 2006.
www.ruv.net /Montreal__Quebec__Canada.1643.0.html   (4304 words)

  
 Amateur Hockey Association biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
With the exception of 1888, the challenge system was exclusively used in the AHA before the advent of the Stanley Cup, while the series system became the norm in 1893, the first year the Cup was contested.
The first championship team of the AHA was the Montreal Crystals, having unofficially being declared the champions before the AHA.
The series system was a success, although a tie atop the standings between the Vics and the Montreal AAA, and the subsequent scheduling of the tiebreaker game caused much trouble when the game was scheduled at a time when two Victorias players were injured, at the home venue of the Montreal AAA.
amateur-hockey-association.biography.ms   (592 words)

  
 A to Z Encyclopaedia of Ice Hockey - Mo
Montreal Canadiens 1st pick (1st overall) in the 1963 NHL Amateur Draft (NHL's and Montreal Canadiens' first ever draft pick).
In the 1981-82 Montreal moved to the Adams Division of the Prince of Wales Conference.
Their original home ice, the Montreal Arena, was destroyed by fire - for the remainder of the 1918-19 season they played at the Jubilee Rink.
www.azhockey.com /Mo.htm   (4551 words)

  
 PROFESSIONAL HOCKEY SERVER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The NHL champion in the 100th anniversary of the Cup (1993) was the 106th winner of the Cup.
The Montreal Canadiens have 24 Stanley Cups; 23 were won while in the NHL.
In the spring of 1919, the Montreal Canadiens travelled to Seattle to meet the Seattle Metropolitans, Pacific Coast Hockey League champions.
uhunix2.its.hawaii.edu:1749 /hockey/awards/cupfinal.html   (298 words)

  
 Montreal History Links
Montreal Ghosts - aside from the well-known story of Mary Gallagher, the information here is pretty sparse.
Montreal Shamrocks - the Shamrocks were Stanley Cup champions in the years 1899 and 1900
The Montreal Royals - review of a book about the Montreal Royals, a team which played an important role in helping fls to break the colour barrier by hiring Jackie Robinson (who went on to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers, thus becoming the first fl player to play in the major leagues).
www.geocities.com /ericsquire/montreal.htm   (2068 words)

  
 Pro Hockey Stats.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The surprise of the whole meeting was the admittance of Montreal Nationals, a non-existent team and the exclusion of the Montreal Wanderers and Renfrew.
A meeting of the Montreal Wanderers and Renfrew was called for December 2, 1909, in Montreal.
The National Hockey Association was reorganized with the addition of the Ottawa Senators and Montreal Shamrocks and adopted a 42 game schedule, beginning January 15 and closing March 15.
www.prohockeystats.com /nhainfo.asp   (1228 words)

  
 Montreal GAA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Montreal Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) was established in 1948 in order to promote Ireland’s two most popular national sports, Gaelic football and Hurling to the community of Montreal.
The association is also known as the Montreal Shamrocks Hurling and Football club.
Montreal GAA also organises social events including live satellite television coverage of the All-Ireland Football and Hurling Championship games every Sunday morning during the summer months.
www.geocities.com /montreal_gaa   (159 words)

  
 Bernklow, Seattle Metropolitans
In Montreal, the boys were exposed to the game that they would be involved with for the rest of their lives.
The local sports heroes in Montreal at this time were the nine members of a local amateur hockey team who had just won a silver cup as the champions of the five-team Canadian Amateur Hockey Association.
Not only had the Montreal Canadiens left the chalice at home, but the Mets would have to put up a $500 bond before the NHA would relinquish it to their possession.
www.narhist.ewu.edu /pnf/articles/bernklow.html   (9810 words)

  
 Stanley Cup Winners
One of the then-champion Montreal Wanderers operated a St. Catherine Street Bowling Alley, where the Cup was "lodged in a showcase, heaped big with chewing gum to entice prospective buyers."
With Montreal trailing three games to two in the best-of-seven Cup final, Conn Smythe left the Cup in Montreal after the fifth game of the finals even though game six was slated for Toronto.
When the Montreal Canadiens were losing in the playoff semifinals to the then-defending-Cup-champion Chicago Blackhawks, a Montreal fan went to the the Chicago-Stadium-lobby display case where the Cup was kept, took the Cup and headed for the door.
www.tmlfever.com /stanleycupwinners.html   (3179 words)

  
 reports
The women's final was a close run affair between Montreal A and Brampton with Brampton eventually coming out on top.
This was the first final the Montreal women's team have reached.
This is first year or particapation for both the men's and women's teams in the Toronto league.
www.geocities.com /montreal_gaa/reports.html   (136 words)

  
 Montreal Shamrocks Hockey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Montreal Nationale played in the Federal Amateur Hockey League in 1903-04 and the Canadian Amateur Hockey League in 1904-05.
In 1909 they joined the Canadian Hockey Association, but disbanded after the league merged with the NHA halfway into the campaign.
As the city of Montreal already fielded two clubs in the new league, the Nationale were denied entrance.
hockeysweatermuseum.my100megs.com /teampages/nha/mtlnat.htm   (59 words)

  
 MCQ : Facts about society : Mad about hockey : Important dates
Last game of the NHA (National Hockey Association) played with a seven man team between the Toronto Blueshirts and the Montreal Canadiens, in Toronto.
Joe Malone of the Montreal Canadiens scores 5 goals against Ottawa.
Joe Malone of the Montreal Canadiens scores 5 goals against Toronto.
www.mcq.org /societe/hockey/pages/aadates_3.html   (145 words)

  
 Montreal Canadiens; Hockey Institution
The teams involved were the Montreal Wanderers, Shamrocks, Nationals, the Quebec Bulldogs and the 1909 Stanley Cup champs, the Ottawa Senators.
O'Brien was rejected, as was Jimmy Gardner of the Montreal Wanderers because their home arena, the Jubilee Rink, was considered too small.
In 1917, someone designed a big C surrounding a small H. The H stood for hockey, but some people mistakened it for "Habs" or "Habitants" the farmers of the day.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/ice_hockey/8329/1   (439 words)

  
 staney cup information,stanley cup   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
On March 8, 1895, the Montreal Victorias won the league title, and thus the staney cup, but the challenge match, which wasscheduled earlier for the next day, was to be between the previous year's champion and the university squad.
Although the bands were originally designed tofill up during the Cup's centennial year, the names of the 1965 Montreal Canadiens were engraved over a larger area than allotted (andthus there are 12 teams on that band instead of 13).
In 1966, the MontrealCanadiens was misspelled as "Montreal Canadiene".
www.vsearchmedia.com /staney_cup.html   (3406 words)

  
 Shamrocks - History of Concordia University: The Montreal Shamrocks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Shamrocks - History of Concordia University: The Montreal Shamrocks
Various plants (but not 4-leaf clovers) serve as Irish shamrocks, but there's no one authoritative choice.
Photograph of Shamrocks, Oxalis deppei in the garden.
earnmoneyclub.com /emc/shamrocks.html   (111 words)

  
 Stanley_Cup   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
As time went on the ring became full and teams began engraving their names around the fluting, and some teams went as far as engraving their names on the inside of the bowl.
In 1908 the Montreal Wanderers won the Cup but failed to engrave their names on it.
Perhaps the cost was too great, or they simply lacked the initiative to complete the task.
couchpotatohockey.com /Awards/Stanley_Cup.asp   (465 words)

  
 if you can see this - please visit http://www.halloffame.mb.ca
It was not until the 1901 Winnipeg Victorias defeated the Montreal Shamrocks, that the title returned to Manitoba.
The Vics travelled east in 1900 to challenge the Shamrocks and won the first contest in February 4-3 (Bain scoring two goals, Gingras and Roxborough one each).
The Shamrocks rallied to win 3-2 before 5,000 fans (Johnstone and Campbell scoring for the Vics).
www.halloffame.mb.ca /honoured/2004/1901Victorias.htm   (231 words)

  
 Stanley Cup - ArtPolitic Encyclopedia of Politics : Information Portal
In 1910, professional teams started competing for the trophy, and in 1926, the NHL got exclusive use of the Stanley Cup.
The cup has been awarded every year since 1893, except for 1919 when the finals were cancelled after five games after a spanish influenza epidemic in Montreal and Seatle.
The Montreal Canadiens have won the most Stanley Cups, capturing the Cup 24 times.
www.artpolitic.org /infopedia/st/Stanley_Cup.html   (455 words)

  
 No Fear Gaming - NHL Play-offs
Habs is an abbreviation of "les habitants," the informal name given to the original settlers of New France, dating back to the 17th Century.
So it seems a natural nickname for the Montreal Canadiens, established in 1909 as a French-Canadian hockey team appealing to the city's Francophone community.
The H and C in the logo stand for Club du Hockey, of course.
www.nofeargaming.com /forums/showthread.php?mode=hybrid&t=232   (331 words)

  
 Ghosts of The Past
Beginning in 1904-1905, Pitre played three seasons with the IHL's Michigan Soo Indians and then spent time with the Montreal Shamrocks, Edmonton Eskimos (as a "ringer" to challenge the Montreal Wanderers for the Stanley Cup) and Renfrew Creamery Kings before joining the 1909 Habs squad.
The defenseman/rover was moved to right wing for the 1914-15 campaign and scored an astonishing 30 goals, just 8 less than the rest of his team scored that season.
However, unlike Maurice Richard, who had Montreal businessmen bail him out, Pitre oftened forked over large portions of his salary for missed practices and even for drinking champagne in between periods for "refreshment" purposes.
www.sportznutz.com /nhl/ghostsofthepast/Didier_Pitre.htm   (528 words)

  
 Stanley Cup Champions
Hockey's first champions, the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association
In 1892, Lord Stanley of Preston, Canada’s Governor General at the time, donated a trophy to honour the best amateur hockey team in Canada.
The Stanley Cup has been won by the Montreal Canadiens a record 23 times (well, 24, if you consider their win before the NHL existed), followed distantly by the Toronto Maple Leafs, who--including wins by the St. Pats, Arenas, and Blueshirts--have hoisted 14 Stanley Cups.
www.angelfire.com /wi/fishbert/stanley.html   (207 words)

  
 AskMen.com - Women images
Secondly, the Montreal Canadiens have won 24 Stanley Cups (in your article, it mentions only 23).
The Maroons have won two, that is correct, but one of them is before the NHL took the rights of the Stanley Cup.
Therefore, if you calculate the championships of Montreal when they were not part of the NHL but did win the Stanley Cup, it will resemble this:
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 Lightning: Six degrees of separation
HAVILAND ROUTH: In 1893, he was one of eight players for the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association, which won the Cup Lord Stanley had purchased after a round-robin tournament.
HARRY TRIHEY: He was the coach and captain of the Shamrocks.
But the next year, Laviolette joined the fledgling Montreal Canadiens, where he became a building block of their dynasty.
www.sptimes.com /2004/05/24/Lightning/Six_degrees_of_separa.shtml   (331 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Jan. 21, at Montreal - Kenora 8, Mtl.
Mar. 2, at Montreal - Ottawa 5, Mtl.
When no settlement could be reached, the series was abondoned and Ottawa retained the Cup and accepted a two-game challenge from Brandon.
www.rauzulusstreet.com /hockey/nhltrophies/roster9.html   (536 words)

  
 The Sporting News: Hockey Archives
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