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  Montreal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Montreal is situated in the southwestern 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 merged (see Montreal merger and demerger) with the 27 surrounding municipalities on the Island of Montreal on 1 January 2002.
Montreal is a transportation hub for eastern Canada, with well-developed air, road, rail, and maritime links to the rest of Canada, as well as the United States and Europe.
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 [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 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.
www.ruv.net /Montreal__Quebec__Canada.1643.0.html   (4304 words)

  
 Montreal Wanderers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Montreal Wanderers were a professional hockey team that played in Montreal, Quebec and one of the founding franchises of the National Hockey League in the 1917-18 NHL season.
They had played only six games in the NHL, losing all but one, when the Montreal Arena burned down on January 2, 1918, and the team was disbanded.
Prior to the formation of the NHL, they played in the Federal Amateur Hockey League from 1903-05, the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association from 1906-09, and the National Hockey Association from 1909-17.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Montreal_Wanderers   (166 words)

  
 Sprague Cleghorn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Sprague Horace "Peg" Cleghorn, (March 11, 1890, Montreal, PQ, - July 12, 1956, Montreal, PQ), was a skilled ice hockey player for teams in the NHL and CAHL who turned in a Hall of Fame career but was widely regarded as one of the dirtiest players of his era.
Cleghorn was hit by a car in early June 1956, and died of his injuries at Montreal's St. Luc Hospital on June 20, 1956.
Sprague Cleghorn's brother, Odie Cleghorn, was found dead in his bed just hours before the funeral, as a result of heart failure, perhaps induced by the stress of the loss of his brother.
www.secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Sprague_Cleghorn   (396 words)

  
 Online Sports Betting - NHL Hockey History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
With the loss of the Montreal Wanderers from the year before the NHL was down to three teams.
Montreal beat Vancouver in two straight by scores of 3-2 and 2-1, and then handled Calgary 6-1 and 3-0 to capture the Cup.
In Montreal, the Canadien owners donated a trophy in memory of Georges Vezina to be awarded annually to the goaltender who let in the least amount of goals.
betcasinosportslinks.com /sports_betting_info/hockey/nhl_history.htm   (4859 words)

  
 National Hockey League - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
During the 1916-17 NHA season, six teams comprised the NHA: the Montreal Canadiens, the Montreal Wanderers, the Ottawa Senators, the Quebec Bulldogs, the Toronto Blueshirts and an army team from the Toronto-based 228th Battalion.
Owners met in Montreal to consider the league's future on February 11, 1917, a day after members of the 228th Battalion, the most popular NHA team, were called into World War I action.
The Wanderers, already a shadow of its former self, folded in the wake of the fire, ending one of the most storied franchises in the early years of Canadian professional hockey.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /national_hockey_league.htm   (2216 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Montreal Wanderers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Moose Johnson (February 26, 1886 in Montreal, Quebec - March 25, 1963 was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenseman who played for the Montreal Wanderers of the National Hockey Association.
Ernie Russell (October 21, 1883 in Montreal, Quebec - February 23, 1963) was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenseman who played for the Montreal AAA and Montreal Wanderers.
Montreal sports The small city of Kenora prides itself on their triumphant win of the Stanley Cup in 1907 by the Kenora Thistles ice hockey team.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Montreal-Wanderers   (582 words)

  
 Montreal Maroons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Montreal Maroons were a professional ice hockey team from Montreal, Quebec.
While the Montreal Canadiens drew primarily francophone fans, the Maroons largely drew fans from the anglophone neighbourhoods of Montreal.
The defunct Montreal Wanderers had been targeted as a team for anglophone fans before they folded just six games into their inaugural season.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Montreal_Maroons   (174 words)

  
 Montreal Wanderers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Montreal Wanderers were a professional hockey team that played in Montreal, Quebec, first in the National Hockey Association, then in the National Hockey League in the 1917-18 NHL season.
They had played only six games in the NHL, losing all but one, when the Montreal Arena burned down and the team was disbanded.
Wanderers Way An unofficial site with club information, match reports, and squad details.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Montreal_Wanderers.html   (306 words)

  
 Pro Hockey Stats.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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.
Montreal Wanderers won the National Hockey Association championship with the powerful record of 11 wins and 1 loss.
www.prohockeystats.com /nhainfo.asp   (1228 words)

  
 Montreal Wanderers (1909-1918)
In an era when Montreal was the largest city in Canada, teams were founded for every type of fans the Victorias represented the Scottish, while the Shamrocks represented the Irish.
The Wanderers were an immediate success nearly taking the Stanley Cup away from the legendary Ottawa Silver Seven, by skating to a 5-5 deadlock on March 2nd.
The Montreal Canadiens who were also using the Westmount Arena that season returned to the Jubilee Rink with an offer to share the building with the Wanderers.
www.sportsecyclopedia.com /nhl/monwan/wanderers.html   (1367 words)

  
 1917-18 NHL season - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The National Hockey League, as it exists today, was formed on November 26, 1917 after a meeting between representatives of the National Hockey Association in Montreal's Windsor Hotel.
The owners of the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas decided to form a new league in order to exclude Edward J. Livingston, owner of the NHA Toronto Blueshirts franchise from being involved in their future hockey operations.
Prior to the start of the 1917-1918 season, the Quebec Bulldogs dropped out of the league, and early in the season, Montreal Wanderers were forced to disband.
www.open-encyclopedia.com /1917-18_NHL_season   (243 words)

  
 Hockey
The Montreal Canadians shared Westmount Arena with the Wanderers, so they were forced to move into the Jubilee rink for the rest of the season.
In the 1917-18 season the Montreal Canadians won the first half of the season and the Toronto Arenas won the second half.
In the NHL George Kennedy, one of the founders of the NHL and the owner of the Montreal Canadiens died in 1921.
www.msu.edu /~vanduse1/ubt/hockey.htm   (4862 words)

  
 National Hockey League   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In the 1916-17 NHA season, there were six teams that comprised the NHA: the Montreal Canadiens, the Montreal Wanderers, the Ottawa Senators, the Quebec Bulldogs, the Toronto Blueshirts, and an army team from the 228th Battalion, stationed in Toronto.
On November 26, 1917, in Montreal's Windsor Hotel, the National Hockey League was formed, with the Canadiens, the Wanderers, the Senators, the Bulldogs, and the newly-renamed Toronto Arenas as its founding members.
By then, the Wanderers were but a shadow of what they used to be - on January 2, 1918, in the NHL's first season, the Montreal Arena, home to both the Canadiens and Wanderers, was burned to the ground.
mywiseowl.com /articles/National_Hockey_League   (2106 words)

  
 French-Canadian Tradition - Backcheck: Hockey for Kids - Library and Archives Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Wanderers were unhappy in the Canadian Hockey Association because of a disagreement over their rink.
The Association decided they wanted to have a French-Canadian team in their league and a new team called the Montreal Canadiens was born.
Henri Ménard was the second, when he was the goalie for the Montreal Wanderers in 1906.
www.collectionscanada.ca /hockey/kids/024003-2100-e.html   (923 words)

  
 Montreal Canadien's Appreciation Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Kings gave Montreal a fight, tying the game at 6-6, and forcing the first overtime of the National Hockey Association.
(As in the Montreal Canadiens Hockey Club.) Habitant was a term used to refer to the farmers of Quebec at the time.
Rickard took this rumour as gospel, and thus a legend was born.
www.anguish.org /~flint/habs.html   (1143 words)

  
 Early Leagues - Washington Capitals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Montreal and Ottawa met in a playoff for NHA honors and the Canadiens captured the two-game total-goal series 7–6.
Wanderers, last-place finishers in the NHA the previous season, were bolstered by Quebec players McDonald, Ritchie, Carey and Marks.
Wanderer owner Sam Lichtenhein, who had been threatening to withdraw from the league because of the scarcity of good players, used the arena fire as an excuse to get out of hockey, even though the city of Hamilton offered to give his team a home for the rest of the season.
www.washingtoncaps.com /history/index.cfm?cont_id=28274   (1806 words)

  
 Lalonde Family Web Site - Newsy Lalonde
So the proud Lalonde name is engraved on the Stanley Cup as a member of the first Montreal Canadiens champion and Newsy pocketed the magnificent sum of $238 paid to each member of the championship team.
The National Hockey League was born on November 26th 1917 with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators and Toronto Arenas as charter members.
His salary in 1910-11 for the Montreal Canadiens was $1,300 which was one of the highest at the time.
web.uvic.ca /~lalonde/history/newsy.html   (1542 words)

  
 Montreal Wanderers Rugby Club
Wanderers came up to me at the bar to ask what they could do to improve, or to tell me what they were going to do to improve...
The Wanderers are part of the Quebec Rugby Union (or Fédération de Rugby du Québec), with a team in the Super League and in the Second division.
Montreal Wanderer and Canadian International Nik Witkowski breaks a tackle for his professional side in England, Coventry RFC
www.montrealwanderers.ca   (254 words)

  
 The Sporting News - Hockey's Holy Grail
The photographer's mother then takes it from the cupboard, fills it with dirt, plants some red geraniums in it and proudly places it in the window, where it remains until the Wanderers return to claim it.
One of the team's players takes the Cup to a bowling alley, where the trophy is placed on the counter and filled with bubble gum to attract customers.
Legend has it that the Montreal Canadiens stole it and had it melted down into a trophy, which was presented to coach Toe Blake upon his retirement in 1968.
www.sportingnews.com /archives/holygrail/timeline.html   (1492 words)

  
 Bert Lindsay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Lindsay was recruited to play goal for the Edmonton team that challenged the Montreal Wanderers for the Stanley Cup in December of 1908.
After a disappointing 1914-15 campaign, Lindsay left Victoria and returned to the NHA with the Montreal Wanderers.
He was still with the club when it became a charter member of the NHL in 1917-18, but had his season cut short when the Wanderers disbanded following a fire in their home rink.
www.hockeyresearch.com /jwood/bios/bert_lindsay.htm   (268 words)

  
 Canadiens de Montreal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Lepine scores four times and has five points in the second period alone to set a club record; the hat trick is the second of his career.
The Canadiens and the Montreal Wanderers lock horns for the first time in a benefit for victims of the Halifax Fire, which had occurred on Dec. 6.
Montreal and Toronto end in a 2-2 tie at the Forum.
www.canadiens.com /eng/news/redirect.cfm?sectionID=habsNewsDetails.cfm&newsItemID=4063   (805 words)

  
 Art Ross   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It was while Ottawa was travelling to Montreal for the 1915 NHA championship that Ross invented "kitty-bar-the-door" hockey, thinking that the fast, powerful Wanderers could be stopped by stringing three defensemen across the width of the ice, 30 feet in front of the goalie, defying any Montreal forward to skate through.
The confident Wanderers, playing on home ice, even had a fleet of taxis waiting outside the rink to take them to the railway station so they could head west to meet Vancouver for the Stanley Cup.
Their pride and Art Ross's defensive shell ensured that the taxis came in handy for the Ottawa Senators instead, who won the round on goals and caught the train to the coast.
www.southcoastal.com /history/ross.htm   (341 words)

  
 Stanley Cup Winners   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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)

  
 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)

  
 Augusta Georgia: sports@ugusta: NHL celebrates 80th anniversary 12/19/97
There were a maximum of 12 players in uniform for each team per game when the four-team league began competition Dec. 19, 1917, replacing the National Hockey Association as the major professional hockey league in the East.
The Montreal Canadiens defeated the Ottawa Senators 7-4 on the first day and the Montreal Wanderers beat the Toronto Arenas 10-9.
The Wanderers lasted only six games, forced to withdraw from the league after the Montreal Arena burned down.
www.augustachronicle.com /stories/122097/fea_nhlann.shtml   (284 words)

  
 Early Leagues2 - Washington Capitals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It was a team from this organization – boys wearing the colors of the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association – that captured the first Stanley Cup championship in 1893.
Jimmy Gardner’s Montreal Wanderers (11–1) won the league championship in the first season of NHA play and skated off with the O’Brien Cup, a massive silver trophy valued at $6,000.
Wanderers also took possession of the Stanley Cup and, following the NHA season, accepted a challenge for it from Berlin, Ontario.
www.washingtoncaps.com /history/index.cfm?cont_id=28306   (1571 words)

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