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Blaine Canadian sports history collection
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National Hockey League

Subsubseries contains records relating to the National Hockey League (NHL) and its membership teams. The National Hockey League is a men's professional level hockey league that was established in 1917. The league currently consists of thirty one teams from Canada and the United States. Subsubseries contains gameday programs from current and defunct league teams as well as programs from special events such as All Star games, Stanley Cup playoffs, and the Soviets vs. NHL Super Series. Subsubseries also contains tickets, schedules, calendars, press guides, yearbooks, photographs, collector cards, hockey publications, and other promotional products.

Western Canada Hockey League

Subsubseries documents the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL), which was a men's professional level hockey league that formed in 1921 and was later renamed the Western Hockey League (WHL). Subsubseries contains programs from league, playoff, and All Star games as well as photographs, cards, schedules, tickets, guides, postcards, decals, and other promotional materials.

Junior/varsity

Subsubseries contains records relating to Junior, Collegiate, and High School football leagues and their membership teams. The majority of these leagues are Canadian. Subseries also contains records relating to special events and league playoffs such as Canadian Junior Football Final, Vanier Cup Final, Hula Bowl, and Rose Bowl. Subseries contains records from the following leagues: Calgary High School Football League, Canadian Inter-collegiate Rugby Football Union, Western Inter-collegiate Rugby Football Union, Saskatchewan Junior Football League, Alberta Junior Football League, Manitoba-Saskatchewan Junior Football League, Prairie Junior Football Conference, Western Canada Intercollegiate Athletic Union, Canada East Universities Athletic Association, Canada West Universities Athletic Association, Canadian Inter-collegiate Athletic Union, and National Collegiate Athletic Association.

Blaine Canadian sports history collection

  • CA MRUASC C0011
  • Collection
  • 1906-2019

Collection documents the history of professional, amateur, and varsity/collegiate sport in Canada, particularly hockey, football, baseball, golf, and rodeo. The collection illustrates the development of these sports in the 20th and early 21st centuries (the period from the 1940s to the 1990s is particularly well-documented), and focuses on Canadian leagues as well as international leagues in which Canadian teams participated. Most of the collection relates to Canadian teams and athletes (although American teams are also well-represented), with a particular focus on Alberta and Western Canada.

The collection largely consists of publications, ephemera, and promotional objects including: game and tournament programs, photographs, magazines, media guides, yearbooks, schedules, calendars, trading cards, game tickets, pins and buttons, pennants, patches, and decals.

The collection is arranged into 5 series by sport: hockey, football, baseball, golf, and rodeo (devoted to the Calgary Stampede). The collection was meticulously organized and documented by the donor Bob Blaine, with most of the collection housed in binders that are arranged by level of competition (professional, amateur, varsity/collegiate), league, date range, and type of material. The contents of each binder are further arranged, typically by material type and date, and many items are accompanied by detailed supplementary contextual information provided by Blaine.

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