Photo gallery

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Hockey team during the First World War.

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Champion hockey team among the Canadians interned in Switzerland in 1917.

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Royal Newfoundland Regiment hockey team in 1917.

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Five members of the 1914 Stanley Cup winners would one day be inducted in the Hockey Hall of Fame. Three of the future Hall of Fame players served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War - Frank Foyston, George McNamara, and Allan McLean Davidson.

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Boston Bruins Hockey Club front line Bobby Bauer, Porky Dumart and Milt Schmidt, who left hockey to become members of the RCAF, seen taking their medicals in 1942.

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Winnipeg Rifles hockey team during the playoffs in 1942.

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RCAF Flyers playing against the Quebec Aces in the Eastern Allan Cup Final in 1942.

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Royal Canadian Navy hockey team in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1943.

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Hal Stade, goalie of the Royal Canadian Navy hockey team in 1943.

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Sub-Lieutenant Fritz, of the Royal Canadian Navy hockey team, injured during a game in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1943.

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RCAF No. 5 Operational Training Unit hockey team in British Columbia in 1943.

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Canadian Postal Corps hockey team, 1944-1945.

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Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service hockey team in Halifax in 1944.

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Aircraft Commanding Officer O'Brien at hockey game in 1944.

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General Montgomery at Canadian Army hockey championship in 1944.

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Major Conn Smythe, RCA, pointing out portraits of members of the Board of Directors of Maple Leaf Gardens on a Gardens calendar in France in 1944.

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Corporal Vickeney drops the puck to start game in Tilburg, Netherlands, in 1945.

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Rockcliffe Flyers hockey team in 1945.

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RCAF Olympic hockey team in 1947.

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Members of the 2^nd Battalion Royal Canadian Regiment play hockey at Imjin Gardens in Korea in 1952.

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First official hockey game played by Royal Canadian Regiment in Korea in 1952.

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Imjin Gardens is the scene of a hockey game between teams of the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery officers and "Van Doos" officers in Korea in 1952.

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Hockey game between the Royal 22^e Régiment and the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery in Korea in 1952.

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Some 400 spectators watch the 26 Canadian Infantry Brigade championship hockey game at Imjin Gardens in Korea in 1953.

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Royal 22^e Régiment hockey team members McCormick, Pelchat and Savard in Korea in 1953.

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Hockey game in the desert between sailors from HMCS Protecteur and HMCS Athabaskan in Bahrain, in 1990.

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The first “Short/Beerenfenger Hockey Tournament”, at Camp Julien, in Afghanistan in 2003.

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Hotel Company Combat Team, members of 2^nd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment Battle Group, plays austere hockey at Patrol Base Wilson in 2007.

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Soldiers from Eastern Ontario's 33 Canadian Brigade Group participate in a ball hockey game, with residents of Pangnirtung in Nunavut in 2008.

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The Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, and General Natynczyk do the face-off of the Team Canada ball hockey game with Guy Lafleur and Corporal Grondin of 438 Tactical Helicopter Squadron in Afghanistan in 2008.

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Leading Seamen Zurbriggen and Green fight for the hockey ball during Operation NUNALIVUT 10 Sports Day in CFS Alert in 2010.

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Members of the Royal Canadian Air Force play ball hockey with colleagues from other countries during a multinational exercise in Brazil in 2013.

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Ball hockey game on HMCS Toronto in the port of Chania, Greece during Operation REASSURANCE in 2014.

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Members of Air Task Force - Iraq playing a game of ball hockey at Camp Patrice Vincent, in Kuwait, during Operation IMPACT in 2015.

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Members of Air Task Force - Iraq take part in a ball hockey game at Camp Patrice Vincent, in Kuwait during Operation IMPACT in 2015.

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Veteran Dominic Larocque played sledge hockey at the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.

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Ball hockey game between Canada and the United States during a friendly tournament in Belize in 2015.

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Ball hockey game between Canada and the United States during a friendly tournament in Belize in 2015.

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The Honourable Judith Guichon, Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia, prepares to drop the ceremonial puck at a game between the Vancouver Canucks Alumni and members of the Canadian Armed Forces in Colwood, British Columbia, in 2016.