Progress on research

I have finally finished reading all the newspapers for the early version of the Victoria Cougars (also Aristocrats). Luckily there was only one sports page in the early 20th century so the news is fairly easy to find. Even when the Cougars won the Stanley Cup, there was only a small piece on page 1 about a public dinner. Now, there would be banner headlines and wall to wall coverage. I am learning a lot about these early hockey players and feel like I have known some of them for years. The downsize to these early newspapers is the poor quality of the photographs – in the rare occasions when they are in the newspaper – fuzzy and smudged. I will be looking for better copies in the next while.