Women’s Ice Hockey – Windsor Image Gallery

Windsor Women’s Hockey Team – 1924 Goal-Mabel Smith, Edna Norris, Babe Caldwell, Naneo Ward, Aletha Card, Essie Mounce, Dot Mosher, Mgr. W.W. Shaw Front: Team Mascot Jean Reid, daughter of Town Photographer Harry Reid. They traveled to play recreational games with teams in adjacent Annapolis Valley Towns. The town women and Windsor Academy high school girls continued to have teams through WW II and into the 1970s.

Photograph of Little Jean Reid on Bob Skates (the daughter of Photographer Harry Reid) Note: ’24 on puck lower left corner = 1924

Windsor, N.S. Girls – 1926 Back: Peggy Christie, Kay Hains, St. Clair McKay (coach), Grace Smith, Helen Bezanson, Vivian McRae, Lillian Fletcher, Mary Anthony, “Gib” Mounce (coach) Front: Marjorie Poole, Jeanne Jadis, Kay Anslow Taking a few moments off from hockey practice for a photo opportunity with their coaches, alongside Windsor’s old Stannus Street Rink.

An outstanding all round athlete shown here in her Ice Hockey outfit. Kay played tennis, golf, baseball and Ice Hockey from childhood on. As editor of the Hants Journal, she later covered those sporting events in Windsor, N.S. for many years.

They  traveled 45 miles by train to Halifax for games with Dalhousie University
and High School teams and stayed overnight at the homes of the members of
the other teams. They later extended the same courtesies to their adversaries.
That’s what women’s hockey was like in the 1930s.

They borrowed outfits and equipment from the high school senior team and played challengers from other Annapolis Valley teams. This year the Windsor Academy Girls were champions!

This trophy was won in 1946 by Windsor Academy Girls Hockey Team

They had played Ice Hockey as high school girls and went on to form a team representing the town at the next level layed with similar teams in Annapolis Valley towns, for the love of the game. Here they are seen with members of the local Gyro Club, a friendship group, after an exhibition game as a fund raiser.

Back: Sheila Dunphy, Ellen “Minnie” Meagher, Gerry Singer, Mary Yeaton, Ruth Creed, Helen Hood, Ruth Manning Front: Betty Singer, Ruth Dill, Marilyn Hanson, Barbara MacDonald, Jean Chambers Having played high school hockey, they formed a “town” team and played with similar teams in Annapolis Valley towns, merely for the love of the game.

Marie Sexton of Windsor, N.S. was captain of Acadia Women’s Hockey Team – 1924. Other family members were also talented hockeyists. 

Marie (Sexton) Purnell Musser, shown as she was inducted as a member of the Birthplace of Hockey Hall of Fame by author Garth Vaughan representing Windsor Hockey Heritage Society in Windsor, Nova Scotia, at age 97, in 1999. She presently lives in Mifflinburg, Pa. and returned home to accept the honor. Shown with Marie is Jimmy Pineo, outstanding Nova Scotia hockey player of the 1940-50s who was also inducted into the Birthplace of Hockey Hall of Fame.

 Marilyn Fox, Marie Payne, Prudence Normandeau, Barb Williams, Rose Spence, Laura Baxter, Peggy Williams, Marie Sexton(Capt.) This team played for the previous five years without suffering a defeat. This season they scored 61 goals. Unbeaten in five years, these girls were ‘holy terrors” on ice!

A very competitive Windsor female hockeyist in the 1950s, Marie regularly scored 50 goals in a three month season, and won the Annapolis Valley Women’s Hockey MVP award. She had such stamina and love for hockey that she frequently played the entire game, and scored almost at will. It’s too bad that some hockeyist’s careers have to end!