From the Archives

Here's a trip down Memory Lane.  Check out this CBC spot on the 1955 incarnation of the Dutchmen, a year before representing Canada in the Olympics.  Also, it was shot mere 2 years before they shed the skates forever, during the early days of ball hockey.  A story often told has Coach Bobby Bower having dinner with Prime Minister Louis St-Laurent shortly after the Olympics, when suddenly, right before the main course, Louis asks Coach Bower  "Why in hell don't you guys get some balls and show us some real hockey."  That's when he decided to talk to the owner about relocating and modernising the team.