Forgotten Heroes: Winnipeg’s Hockey Heritage
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by Richard Brignall
J. Gordon Shillingford, Winnipeg, 2011
232 pp., illus., $24.95 paperback
Amid all the attention the new Winnipeg Jets are receiving, sports journalist Richard Brignall steps back into hockey history in Forgotten Heroes: Winnipeg’s Hockey Heritage.
Brignall looks at hockey in Manitoba, from the beginnings of the Victoria Hockey Club in 1890 up to the 1959 Memorial Cup-winning Winnipeg Braves. Along the way, he includes rare team photographs, excerpts from Manitoba newspapers, and profiles of players in both the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame and the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto.
Forgotten Heroes will be enjoyed by hockey fans and historians alike, as it includes stories about several teams that haven’t received the same recog-nition as the Jets. As Brignall writes, “Unfortunately, in this time of great joy, the city’s amazing hockey history seems to be pushed farther out of view.”
Using thorough research, plentiful images, and engaging storytelling, Forgotten Heroes gives those teams the attention they deserve.
This review appeared in the August-September 2012 issue of Canada's History magazine.
— Ryan Kessler (Read bio)
Ryan Kessler was a former intern at Canada's History magazine.