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This photograph shows the ceremonial puck-drop before a hockey game at the ice rink at the foot of the Cap-Rouge Trestle. Hockey is the emblematic sport of Canadian winters. Several spectators are present in the background. Inaugurated in 1913, the Trestle is one of Cap-Rouge’s landmarks.
1930 - 1950

Winter sports in Cap-Rouge from 1930 to 1950

This album features mid-20th-century winter sports photographs from the Société historique du Cap-Rouge. Sports in the Québec City area were mainly the preserve of the English-speaking elite and were practiced in closed clubs. Over the course of the 20th century, as urbanization progressed, access to sport slowly opened up, and French-speakers began to participate more. Close to nature, the Cap-Rouge area was ideal for many winter activities.

Midwinter puck-drop

Georges Bennett Feeney This photograph shows the ceremonial puck-drop before a hockey game at the ice rink at the foot of the Cap-Rouge Trestle. Hockey is the emblematic sport of Canadian winters. Several spectators are present in the background. Inaugurated in 1913, the Trestle is one of Cap-Rouge’s landmarks.
Source: Société historique du Cap-Rouge Document in the public domain (free of copyright) - Philippe Gaboury Fonds - Date: 1940