James Power

James Power

James Power of Halifax, achieved fame in the Ice Hockey world as a builder of the game. He made a major contribution to the collection of hockey history in his many writings during the years that the game was developing into Canada’s national winter sport. His career as a sports journalist began in the 1870s, so that he knew about Ice Hockey before the game reached Montreal from Nova Scotia. His scrapbooks of sport history are to be found in the Public Archives of Nova Scotia (PANS) as the Power Collection (PC)