Ice Hockey
1800's
1855 - The first modern game of hockey was played in Kingston, Ontario.
1889 - Isobel Stanley was one of the first women hockey
players in Canada.
1900's
1900 - The first women's ice hockey league was organized in Quebec.
1906 - The first provincial women's ice hockey tournament
took place in Banff, Alberta.
1987 - The first Women's World Hockey Tournament was
held at the Centennial Arena in North York, Ontario, Canada.
1991 - Goalie Jenny Hanley became the first woman to
play on a men's college hockey team.
1991 - Manon Rheaume became the first woman to play
in a major Junior game.
1992 - Manon Rheaume was the first woman to play goalie
in a pre-season game for the NHL's Tampa Bay Lightening.
1993 - On December 13, Manon Rheaume became the first
woman to play goalie in a professional hockey game for the Atlanta Knights.
1994 - Minnesota was the first state in the US to have
their state athletic association sanction high school girls ice hockey.
1996 - Canada won the first three Nations Cup for Women's
Ice Hockey with the US and Finland in October.
1998 - Women’s Ice Hockey and Women's Curling became
Olympic medal sports.
1998 - Brandy Fisher won the first-ever Patty Kazmaier
Memorial Award as the nation's top collegiate women's ice hockey player.
2000's
2002 - Elmira College won the Division III Women's Hockey Championship.
2003 - Hayley Wickenheiser, became the first woman to
record a point in a men's pro hockey game.
2003 - Hayley Wickenheiser, became the first woman
to score a goal in a men's pro hockey game.
2003 - Elmira College claimed its second D-III women's
national hockey championship.
2004 - Barbara Zemann became the first woman to play
for an Austrian men’s
ice hockey team.
2005 - Angela Ruggiero, became the first female non-goaltender
to play in a men’s professional hockey game.