Hockey History

This page contains game reports, profiles of players not born in Hamilton, and other items from Hamilton hockey history.

The Fearman Hockey Team, Hamilton Champs of 1905

This photo depicts the Hamilton Wholesale League Champions of 1905, the Fearman hockey team. The winning cup is displayed in front of the team captain, A. C. Hagar, who was also the team’s rover.

Fearmans was an early Hamilton meat-packing concern. Started by F. W. Fearman in the 1850s with the production of pork products, the company grew to one of the largest in the country by the 1880s.

Fearman was also a staunch promoter of Hamilton, helping to advance the city’s school and library systems along with sitting as a director for the Hamilton Board of Trade and the Hamilton Street Railway.

The Fearman residence, built in 1863 and known as Ivey Lodge, is still situated on Stinson Avenue in the city and a reminder of the impressive gothic architecture prevalent among the wealthy in early Hamilton.

Image courtesy of the Special Collections Department, the Hamilton Public Library

• The Fincups of 1974-78
• The Tigers and the CCMs meet up for an exhibition match in 1931
• From 1919 - Hamilton deserving of larger, more modern hockey arena
• Bulldogs announcing staff provides professionalism and excitement- Wills and Craig teamed together since 2001 for team’s radio broadcasts
• Hometown heroes honored at Copps Coliseum in 2004
• City loses its NHL club for less than $2000
• Hamilton Commercial League activity from 1925-Teams represented industry and retail stores from City's wealthy past
• Hamilton pioneered use of radio broadcasts for hockey games
• Mountain Bees lose to Strathroy in heart-breaker
• Hamilton wins its first OHA Intermediate Championship (1917)
• Three newspapers report on an OHA series game from January of 1908
• Hamilton Tigers toast of England in exhibition play-OHL club wins series against the Brits in April of 1935
• Boogie Meisenheimer- Red Wings Trainer part of Hamilton’s Memorial Cup winners
• Eddie Bush- Red Wings coach brought professionalism and Memorial Cup to Hamilton
• The 1976 Fincups-Junior team wins second Memorial Cup for Hamilton
• Hamilton’s first Memorial Cup winners- Red Wings win 1962 title over Edmonton in five games
• Left-winger started with Hamilton Red Wings- Brian Watts
• A packed house witnesses some terrific hockey at Copps- the 1990 Memorial Cup
• Adam Brown-Hamilton Beach resident played for three NHL clubs in 1940s and 1950s
• Gordon 'Beef' McKay- former Allan Cup star honored by Westinghouse League trophy in his name
• Norm Marshall 1918 - 2008
  Hamilton media pioneer well-known for his Red Wings Hockey broadcasts
• Hamilton team termed “Champion Hockeyists” in 1894 newspaper account
• Hamilton Police Minor Association
• Louis Pelissier: coached several Hamilton teams in 1940s. Was bench boss for Junior Tigers and Senior A Pats, also scouted for NHL clubs
• Tim Horton: Famous Maple Leaf started his coffee shops in the city in 1964
• Junior B club of 1962 out of playoffs after playing two sudden-death series

Cups and Trophies

• The Memorial Cup
• The Calder Cup
• The Allan Cup
• The Robertson Cup
• Hamilton Cup Winners

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