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During the 1916-17 season, there were rumblings about the formation of an inter-city league for women's teams. While inter-city matches were quite commonplace in both 1915-16 and 1916-17, the Cornwall Victorias and Ottawa Alerts were essentially roving exhibition teams. As reported by the Ottawa Citizen (December 11, 1917 edition), this would (apparently) come to fruition with a 3-team league consisting of the Montreal Westerns, Maisonneuve of Montreal, and Ottawa Alerts.
Unfortunately, after home-and-home games between the Westerns and Alerts in late January, this happened:
Due to a coal shortage, the use of coal was only allowed on alternating days. (While it may sound odd to be worrying about heating up hockey arenas, it could get *really* cold in February.) With men's leagues' schedules being shuffled and women's hockey last in priority...
(It is worth noting that coverage of women's hockey was still very spotty. It is entirely possible that games happened and were not reported, or that I have missed something... hence the paraphrasing of Wikipedia in this post's opening line.)
Eventually, after the weather was warm enough for coal to be unnecessary, the Alerts would play three exhibition games against Renfrew's ladies' team. I've included them in the "standings", which are essentially meaningless.
As for the dream of an inter-city women's league, that would have to wait. According to the Ottawa Citizen (December 10, 1918 edition), almost exactly a full year after the first "inter-city league" was initially formed, the Ottawa Alerts would be trying to form an Ottawa Valley league with Renfrew, Arnprior, and several other towns while trying to arrange exhibition matches with teams in Montreal and the U.S.
Team statistics:
Skater statistics:
Goalie statistics:
Game log:
Notes:
The scoring table looks a lot less fun without Albertine Lapensee.... but Edith Anderson was doing her best to make it interesting.
I suspect that Florence Dawson of the Ottawa Alerts was also "F. M. Dawson" of the Cornwall Victorias for the 1916-17 season, but I can't confirm this. In the final game between the Alerts and Renfrew, the goalie is credited as "G. Dawson", which I am simply assuming is simply a typo (since "F" is beside "G" on a keyboard).
Renfrew player Hilda Frood would later become owner of the newspaper Renfrew Mercury.
There aren't enough games played for me to select personal All-Star Teams, but the three players who would definitely make it again would be Edith Anderson, Bee Hagan, and Agnes Vautier. This would bring their All-Star Teams from 1915-16 through 1917-18 to:
Edith Anderson: 1, 1, 1
Agnes Vautier: 1, 1, 2
Bee Hagan: 1, 1
Any feedback, additions, and corrections are welcome!
EDIT (February 19, 2024): Thanks to a free access promotion at Newspapers.com for the long weekend, I was able to fill in the blanks and generate an "official" statistical list. Yay!
During the 1916-17 season, there were rumblings about the formation of an inter-city league for women's teams. While inter-city matches were quite commonplace in both 1915-16 and 1916-17, the Cornwall Victorias and Ottawa Alerts were essentially roving exhibition teams. As reported by the Ottawa Citizen (December 11, 1917 edition), this would (apparently) come to fruition with a 3-team league consisting of the Montreal Westerns, Maisonneuve of Montreal, and Ottawa Alerts.
Unfortunately, after home-and-home games between the Westerns and Alerts in late January, this happened:
Due to a coal shortage, the use of coal was only allowed on alternating days. (While it may sound odd to be worrying about heating up hockey arenas, it could get *really* cold in February.) With men's leagues' schedules being shuffled and women's hockey last in priority...
(It is worth noting that coverage of women's hockey was still very spotty. It is entirely possible that games happened and were not reported, or that I have missed something... hence the paraphrasing of Wikipedia in this post's opening line.)
Eventually, after the weather was warm enough for coal to be unnecessary, the Alerts would play three exhibition games against Renfrew's ladies' team. I've included them in the "standings", which are essentially meaningless.
As for the dream of an inter-city women's league, that would have to wait. According to the Ottawa Citizen (December 10, 1918 edition), almost exactly a full year after the first "inter-city league" was initially formed, the Ottawa Alerts would be trying to form an Ottawa Valley league with Renfrew, Arnprior, and several other towns while trying to arrange exhibition matches with teams in Montreal and the U.S.
Team statistics:
Team | GP | W | L | T | PTS | GF | GA |
Ottawa Alerts | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 9 |
Renfrew | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 |
Montreal Westerns | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 7 |
Skater statistics:
Player | Team | Pos | GP | G | A | P | GWG |
Edith Anderson | Ottawa Alerts | C | 5 | 8 | 1 | 9 | 2 |
Agnes Vautier | Montreal Westerns | C | 2 | 4 | | 4 | |
Bee Hagan | Ottawa Alerts | LW | 5 | 3 | | 3 | 1 |
May Hendry | Renfrew | C | 3 | 2 | | 2 | |
May Doloro | Montreal Westerns | F | 2 | 1 | | 1 | |
Hilda Frood | Renfrew | W/P | 3 | 1 | | 1 | |
Muriel McGowan | Renfrew | LW | 3 | 1 | | 1 | |
Pat Grier | Ottawa Alerts | D | 5 | 1 | | 1 | |
Goalie statistics:
Goalie | Team | GP | GA | GAA |
Florence Dawson | Ottawa Alerts | 3 | 4 | 1.33 |
Beatrice Campbell | Renfrew | 3 | 5 | 1.67 |
A. Laberge | Ottawa Alerts | 2 | 5 | 2.50 |
? Gagnon | Montreal Westerns | 2 | 7 | 3.50 |
Game log:
Date | Away Team | Away G | Home Team | Home G | Away Scorers | Home Scorers | Source |
1918-01-12 | Montreal Westerns | 2 | Ottawa Alerts | 3 | Agnes Vautier (2 G) | Bee Hagan (3 G)*, Edith Anderson (1 A) | Ottawa Citizen (1918-01-12) |
1918-01-26 | Ottawa Alerts | 4 | Montreal Westerns | 3 | Edith Anderson (4 G)* | Agnes Vautier (2 G), May Doloro (1 G) | Montreal Star (1918-01-28) |
1918-03-11 | Ottawa Alerts | 3 | Renfrew | 2 | Edith Anderson (3 G)* | Hilda Frood (1 G), May Hendry (1 G) | Ottawa Citizen (1918-03-12) |
1918-03-20 | Renfrew | 1 | Ottawa Alerts | 1 | May Hendry (1 G) | Pat Grier (1 G) | Ottawa Citizen (1918-03-21) |
1918-03-28 | Ottawa Alerts | 1 | Renfrew | 1 | Edith Anderson (1 G) | Muriel McGowan (1 G) | Ottawa Citizen (1918-03-29) |
Notes:
The scoring table looks a lot less fun without Albertine Lapensee.... but Edith Anderson was doing her best to make it interesting.
I suspect that Florence Dawson of the Ottawa Alerts was also "F. M. Dawson" of the Cornwall Victorias for the 1916-17 season, but I can't confirm this. In the final game between the Alerts and Renfrew, the goalie is credited as "G. Dawson", which I am simply assuming is simply a typo (since "F" is beside "G" on a keyboard).
Renfrew player Hilda Frood would later become owner of the newspaper Renfrew Mercury.
There aren't enough games played for me to select personal All-Star Teams, but the three players who would definitely make it again would be Edith Anderson, Bee Hagan, and Agnes Vautier. This would bring their All-Star Teams from 1915-16 through 1917-18 to:
Edith Anderson: 1, 1, 1
Agnes Vautier: 1, 1, 2
Bee Hagan: 1, 1
Any feedback, additions, and corrections are welcome!
EDIT (February 19, 2024): Thanks to a free access promotion at Newspapers.com for the long weekend, I was able to fill in the blanks and generate an "official" statistical list. Yay!
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