The Birthplace of Hockey Museum

10/06/2026

4 DAYS. 🐂🏒

Four more sleeps until the Oxen are back on home ice.

📍 West Hants Sports Complex
⏰ 7:30 PM
🎟️ $10 at the door

Let’s pack the rink Friday night. 🔥

10/03/2026

And that's a wrap on the 2026 season!

The Birthplace of Hockey Museum and .museum.park are officially closed until spring 2027.

We would like to thank our fantastic summer student staff for all of their hard work this summer, and all of the wonderful volunteers that make it possible to keep sharing the Birthplace of Hockey story through our museum.

We of course would like to give a huge thank you to all visitors who stopped in over the course of this season. Thank you for your support, we look forward to welcoming you again in 2027!

10/03/2026

09/30/2026

Reminder!

This week is the final week of the open season for the Birthplace of Hockey Museum and .museum.park. We will be open Wednesday to Saturday from 10am to 4pm. Our final day open for the 2026 season is Saturday, October 3rd.

Make sure to stop in for a visit!

09/25/2026

We are proud to support Avon View Boys High School Hockey and Avon View Girls Hockey through events like our Hockey Heritage Trivia Nights!

Thank you to all who came out to support this event and others!

Both the Avon View Girls Hockey team and Boys Hockey Team were well represented at tonight’s Hockey Heritage Trivia Night!

A huge thank you to Hockey Heritage for their continued support of our teams and, most importantly, our student-athletes.

We’re proud to be part of a community with such a rich hockey history! 💙🤍🏒

09/25/2026

Windsor Hockey Heritage Trivia Night was a blast at the Spitfire Arms Alehouse last night!

The event had a great turnout with a full house of teams using their knowledge of hockey and more to compete for the first place spot.

Team Foam and Coating Pros came out on top, dethroning long time reigning champs team Jeff Burgess. The winners trophy was personally presented to team Foam and Coating Pros by former winning team captain Jeff Burgess himself.

Funds raised in this event go directly towards supporting our scholarship fund for AVHS graduating students. We are able to provide scholarships to four graduating students, increased from two in previous years. These scholarships are made possible by your continued support at events like this.

Thank you to all who attended and supported this great event!

09/24/2026

As the museum season comes to a close, now is the perfect time to visit our gift shop!

We have hoodies, t-shirts, golf shirts, toques, ball hats, trucker hats, pucks, books, and more!

The last day our gift shop will be open this year is October 3rd, we will then have occasional pop-ups at markets and hockey tournaments at the West Hants Sports Complex over the winter. It’s never too early to start your Christmas shopping!

09/18/2026

The QMJHL season gets underway tonight with a Battle of Nova Scotia matchup in Sydney between the Mooseheads and Eagles. Celebrate the occasion by visiting the Birthplace of Hockey Museum in Windsor to learn more about the development of hockey in Nova Scotia! The museum is open Wednesday through Sunday, 10-4.

09/16/2026

Did you know? Three Nova Scotian teams have played for the Stanley Cup! When Lord Stanley of Preston first donated the trophy, he intended for it to be used only by amateur teams, and to be used as the prize for the top hockey team in Canada. Instead of a playoff or tournament format to determine the best team, reputable teams would challenge the defending champion to see which team was better, the winning team keeping the Stanley Cup until defeated in a challenge. The first team from Nova Scotia to issue a challenge were the 1900 Halifax Crescents, who had won the Maritime championship earlier that year. The Crescents were swept by the Montreal Shamrocks in a best-of-three series. The next Maritime challenger were the 1906 New Glasgow Cubs, who once again challenged Montreal, and once again fell, this time in a two-game series where the winner was determined by total goals across both games. Seven years later, in 1913, the final Nova Scotian team challenged for the Stanley Cup. The Maritime champion Sydney Millionaires (pictured below) traveled to Quebec City to face the defending champion Quebec Bulldogs, where the Bulldogs would defeat the Millionaires.

Shortly after this challenge, the trustees of the Stanley Cup decided it would be appropriate hold an annual Stanley Cup playoff series between the champions of the top professional leagues in Canada, the National Hockey Association and the Pacific Coast Hockey League. Initially, the Maritime Professional Hockey Association was included among the leagues eligible to send a team, but the league folded before producing a team good enough to challenge. With the folding of the Maritime league, any chance of a Nova Scotian team bringing the Cup home was dashed. In the ensuing years, several players from the province have returned home as champions, including Sidney Crosby, Al MacInnis, Nathan MacKinnon, and Brad Marchand.

To learn more about hockey in Nova Scotia, visit the Birthplace of Hockey Museum, open Wednesday through Sunday from 10:00 to 4:00.

09/16/2026

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