LETHBRIDGE MAPLE LEAFS: 1951 WORLD AMATEUR HOCKEY CHAMPIONS - 60th Anniversary 2011: 60th Anniversary Today-March 17: Congratultions to the Lethbridge Maple Leafs on the 60th Anniversary of your World Championship Victory! The Story in Pictures!

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We have tried to capture the story of the Lethbridge Maple Leafs and provide a site to post stories, documents, links and photos of their incredible journey to the Championship.

To read their great story from the beginning, scroll to the bottom of the site to part 1 and work your way up through the 34 parts (You may have to click on “older posts” at the bottom to get to part 1). Each part is in chronological order and describes a part of the journey and many contain photos (We continue to add new photos to these posts as we get them).

After part 34 we are posting current related activities, stories and photos from the Galt Museum & Archives, Lethbridge Hurricanes, City of Lethbridge and private collections, as they become available. If you have a photo or story contribution for the site we would be happy to post it. lethbridgemapleleafs@gmail.com

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

60th Anniversary Today-March 17: Congratultions to the Lethbridge Maple Leafs on the 60th Anniversary of your World Championship Victory! The Story in Pictures!

Today is the 60th Anniversary of the Lethbridge Maple Leaf World Championship Victory, March 17, 1951 in Paris, France.

The Lethbridge Maple Leafs began the journey in early December 1950 in Lethbridge, Alberta. Including games in Canada they played 62 games. They won 51, lost 7 and tied 4. This included an amazing 44 game unbeaten string in Europe. By the time they were getting ready for home they had traveled close to 30,000 miles by bus, train, ship, airplane and car and played before about 400,000 people in 14 countries.
In the 6 World Championship games, the Leafs scored 62 goals and only allowed 6 goals against them. A truly dominating performance!

To celebrate the Anniversary day, Lethbridgemapleleafs.com has picked our favourite photos from the blog to tell the story ( Please scroll down through the blog to see the entries that accompany the photos and credits for the photos):

1 comment:

AnonymousMarch 17, 2011 at 12:56 AM
Toast to the Lethbridge Maple Leafs,,,,Long Live the Memory of your World Championship! You will all Walk together Forever!
James Sinclair
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A Project of: hockeyhistory.org

A Project of: hockeyhistory.org

Stan Obodiac wrote:

This is undoubtedly the Cinderella hockey club of all time.
Imagine,….Here we are representing the Dominion of Canada and on our way to the world hockey championships in Paris. And just last year the hockey players themselves organized this club chiefly for exercise, and to play in the Lethbridge district! They sharpened their own skates, used their own equipment, and practised at hours that only night watchman new…

Read more, page 9

The Lethbridge Maple Leafs were called the " Cinderella Club of All Time" in the Lethbridge Herald on December 22, 1950, even before they won the gold medal at the 1951 World Championship in Paris, France to become World Amateur Hockey Champions.

The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association selected the Lethbridge Maple Leafs to represent Canada after they had won the Western Canadian Championship in 1950. Prior to their world championship win they completed an extensive European tour. They posted a very impressive record of 51 wins, 4 ties and 7 loses. They also won the Sir Winston Churchill Cup Competition.

Team photo courtesy: Galt Museum and Archives

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