George & Darryl Fosty's Black Ice: The Lost History of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes, 1895-1925

George Robert Fosty, Darril Fosty

Stryker-Indigo Publishing Company, 2007 - Business & Economics - 264 pages

The Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes was formed in 1895 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Comprised of the sons and the grandsons of runaway American slaves, the league helped pioneer the sport of ice hockey, changing this winter game from the primitive "gentleman's past-time" of the Nineteenth Century to the to the modern fast moving game of today. In an era when many believed Blacks could not endure cold, possessed ankles too weak to effectively skate, and lacked the intelligence for organized sport, these men defied the established myths.

The Colored League was one of the most complex sports organizations ever created and was lead by Baptist ministers and church laymen. Natural leaders and proponents of Black Pride, these men represented a concept in spots never before seen. Their rule book was The Bible. Their game book, the coded words and oral history derived from the experiences of American slavery and the Underground Railroad. Their strategy, the principles and teachings of American Black leader Booker T. Washington (the founder of the Tuskegee Institute) and a believer in the concept of racial equality through racial separation.

Twenty-five years before the Negro Baseball Leagues in the United States, and twenty-two years before the birth of the National Hockey League, the Colored League would emerge as a premier force in Canadian hockey and supply the resilience necessary to preserve a unique culture which exists to this day. Unfortunately their contributions were conveniently ignored, or simply stolen, as White teams and hockey officials, influenced by the Black league, copied elements of the Black style or sought to take self-credit for Black hockey innovations.

Seven years of research has gone into this book. This is the first book ever written on the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes.

Contents

• By Dr Henry Bishop: 1
• Black Loyalists p: 8
• The Maroon Colony p: 19

About the author

George Fosty is a Canadian-born historian and publisher currently living in New York City. He obtained his A.A. degree in History from Western Wyoming College in 1983. In 1985, earned his B.A. in History from the University of Hawaii at Hilo. In 1991 he also earned his M.A. in History from Midwestern State University-Texas. From September 1990 to November 1991 he was employed as a Military Historian (GS-7) with the U.S. Office of Personal Management under special contract to the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Air Force, Sheppard AFB, Texas. While at Sheppard AFB he authored and edited numerous articles on USAF history, created two military museums (in conjunction with Sheppard AFB's 50th Anniversary), served as a Military Advisor on three locally produced television documentaries, and co-authored the award winning book "Sustaining The Wings: A Fifty Year History of Sheppard AFB, 1941-1991" (MSU Press, 1991) the 1991 United States Air Training Command History Book-of-the-Year. In addition to his university degrees, he is a 14-year veteran of the New York legal community and holds a Diploma In International Law from the London Guildhall University (City Polytechnic), London, England (1980) as well as a Legal Generalist Certificate from Adelphi University in New York (1995). He has co-authored/authored seven books: "Sustaining The Wings" (1991), "The Desperate Glory: The Battle Of Dieppe, 1942" (1991), "Splendid Is The Sun: The 5,000 Year History of Hockey" (2003), "Black Ice: The Lost History of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes, 1895-1925" (2004),, "Footie's Black Book: A Guide To International Association Football" (2010), "Short Lines: The Poems Of A Railroad Trackman 1979-1987" (2010), and " Where Brave Men Fall: The Battle Of Dieppe And The Espionage War Against Hitler, 1939-1942" (2013). He is also a featured writer in the book, "Multiple Lenses: Voices From The Diaspora In Canada" (2007). George Fosty is a Founder and the current President of the Society of North American Hockey Historians And Researchers www.sonahrssports.com as well as a Founder of the Black Ice Hockey And Sports Hall of Fame Conference and the Black Ice Project. He has co-produced/produced five hockey documentaries and pilots including: "All Or Nothing" (1998), and "Ice Wars: A Hockey History" (1999). In 2008, he produced and co-wrote the documentary "Black Ice: The Documentary", winner of the Best Short Film Award at the 10th Roxbury International Film Festival in Boston, Massachusetts. George Fosty is the President and Founder of Stryker-Indigo New York. www.strykerindigo.com Stryker-Indigo is a New York-based multi-platform publishing and entertainment corporation. In 2010 -2011, with his brother Darril, he founded the Boxscore World Sportswire www.boxscorenews.com. Darril Fosty is a Canadian-born award-winning historian, documentary filmmaker and media publisher currently living in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the co-founder and current President of the Boxscore World Sportswire boxscorenews.com as well as the Vice-President of Stryker-Indigo New York www.strykerindigo.com, a New York-based multi-platform sports marketing and information corporation. In 1992, he received his Bachelor of Arts in History, with a minor in Journalism, from Western Washington University. In 1994, Fosty wrote press releases for the Seattle Sounders FC sports information department. After leaving the Sounders, he worked in the technology industry doing Infrastructure and Tier 3 Support for Boeing and Microsoft before becoming the first employee and the Network/Infrastructure Manager of the Internet security start-up Zendit, now called Authora. Darril Fosty is the co-author/author of five books: "Splendid Is The Sun: The 5,000 Year History of Hockey" (2003), "Black Ice: The Lost History Of The Colored Hockey League Of The Maritimes, 1895 – 1925" (2004), "Footie's Black Book: A Guide To International Association Football - 2010 World Cup Edition"(2010), the comedy book "The Apocalypse 2012 Cookbook: A New World Survivor's Guide For The Man, Woman and Family On The Run" (2011) and "Where Brave Men Fall: The Battle Of Dieppe And The Espionage War Against Hitler, 1939-1942 (2013). He is the Vice President and Co-Founder of the Society of North American Hockey Historians and Researchers. www.sonahrsports.com as well as a Founder of the Black Ice Hockey And Sports Hall of Fame Conference. He also serves on the SONAHHR Executive Board as well as on the Advisory Board of the Black Ice Project for the purposes of identifying and preserving Black Hockey History. He has co-produced four hockey documentaries and pilots including: "All Or Nothing" (1998), and "Ice Wars: A Hockey History" (1999). In 2008, he Directed and co-wrote the documentary "Black Ice: The Documentary", winner of the Best Short Film Award at the 10th Roxbury International Film Festival in Boston, Massachusetts. In 2007, he gained international recognition and acclaim for his historical work in the sport of ice hockey after being featured in the ESPN documentary "Frozen Out".

Bibliographic information

• Title: George & Darryl Fosty's Black Ice: The Lost History of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes, 1895-1925
• Authors: George Robert Fosty, Darril Fosty
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Stryker-Indigo Publishing Company, 2007
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Oct 9, 2008
• ISBN: 0965116875, 9780965116879
• Length: 264 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / General; Reference / General; Sports & Recreation / Winter Sports / Hockey