>cuse me, hoser, but just because it's "related" to other games, doesn't make it a different game in its own right - and therefore invented by Canadians. The Scots had ice, didn't they? Did they use it to play ice hockey? Noooo.


According to the CAHA, British soldiers in Kingston, Ontario, and Halifax, Nova Scotia, played the first games, about 1855. 1855. The idea for ice hockey probably came from the older game of field hockey.

So, the game was first played in Canada, but it was originally just (real) hockey on ice, and was not first played by Canadians, but by Britons in Canada.