Historica will premiere its new Heritage Minute this Thursday during one of the intermissions when the Winnipeg Jets host the Pittsburgh Penguins. (For those who devote all their energy on genealogy and/or are not Canadian, the Jets and Penguins play hockey.)
The 60-second vignette will feature the Winnipeg Falcons who won Canada’s first Olympic gold medal in hockey in 1920.
There will be separate launches next month of the Falcons Heritage Minute at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa and the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto.
The Winnipeg Free Press reports:
The Falcons’ eight-man roster was made up of Icelandic players who banded together after they were not able to play on other Winnipeg teams because of ethnic prejudice.
They encountered little opposition in winning the seven-team Olympic tournament in Antwerp, Belgium, defeating Czechoslovakia 15-0 in the quarter-finals, the U.S. 2-0 in the semifinals and Sweden 12-1 in the gold-medal game.
Read more about this Heritage Minute and see a short clip in the Winnipeg Free Press article here.
