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  • Series: Amazing Stories
  • Imprint: James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
  • Publication Date: 29 November 2004
  • Copyright Year: 2004
  • ISBN: 9781551537887
  • Page Count: 128
  • Dimensions: 5.5" x 8.5"

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Toronto Maple Leafs

Stories of Canada's Legendary Team

by Jim Barber

The Toronto Maple Leafs are one of Canada's greatest hockey franchises. From their humble beginnings to their remarkable Stanley Cup victories, to their team-building challenges of the 1990s and beyond, the Leafs have a history packed with accomplishments and setbacks. This is their story -- the incredible story of a beloved Canadian institution.

"Since its construction in 1931, the Maple Leaf Gardens had seen its share of powerful, memorable moments and held its share of championship glory. But there was something different about this evening of May 2, 1967."
This book will be especially facinating for readers interested in hockey or sports. The Toronto Maple Leafs is one of Canada's greatest franchises. From their humble beginnings in the 1920s, to their remarkable Stanley Cup victories of the 1940s and 1960s, to their teambuilding challenges of the 1990s and beyond, the Leafs have a history packed with exhilarating accomplishments and devastating setbacks. This is their story -- the incredible story of a beloved Canadian institution.

About the Author

JIM BARBER managed to find time to write this book while working as the Sports and Arts Editor for "The Barrie Advance", and as the Editor for the "Collingwood-Wasaga Beach Connection", two community newspapers in Central Ontario. Jim is a recipient of the Ontario Community Newspaper Association Award for Sportswriting and a Canadian Community Newspaper Award for editorial writing. Educated at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, and Toronto's Centennial College, he has had a passion (obsession?) for hockey and hockey history most of his adult life. The books of Scott Young and Brian McFarlane inspired him as a youth, as do the works of Andrew Podnieks, Douglas Hunter, and Bruce Dowbiggin today. A member of the Society for International Hockey Research, Jim lives in a very old house, in a very small village called Nottawa, a few kilometers from the shores of Georgian Bay, near Collingwood, Ontario.

Subjects (BISAC)

SPORTS & RECREATION / Winter Sports / Hockey

Subjects

Canadian History, Canadian History: Sports, Juvenile Non-Fiction, Juvenile Non-Fiction: History, Local Interest, Local Interest: Ontario, Local Interest: Ontario: Toronto

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