This episode of Artifactuality features an interview with Elizabeth Cooke-Sumbu, granddaughter of the legendary Frank Cooke, who played in the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes. Elizabeth talks about Frank’s legacy, the racial barriers Black hockey players overcame in the past — and must still overcome today — as well as why more needs to be done to tear down barriers, so that anyone who wants to play, can play. The episode also includes an interview with Percy Paris, an eighth-generation African Nova Scotian who was part of the first all-Black line in Canadian university hockey in the 1970s. He became a politician and an activist, but never forgot his love for the game.
LINKS
Transcript
https://historymuseum.ca/podcast/transcripts/#2
Canadian Museum of History Blog: Breaking Ice
https://www.historymuseum.ca/blog/artifactuality-breaking-ice/
Article on the Colored Hockey League in The Canadian Encyclopedia
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/coloured-hockey-league
International Ice Hockey Federation article on the Colored Hockey League
https://www.iihf.com/en/news/19969/celebrating-the-colored-hockey-league
NHL article featuring Percy Paris
https://www.nhl.com/news/saint-marys-university-first-all-black-canada-college-line/c-320925546
Information
- Show
- PublishedJune 12, 2023 at 9:00 AM UTC
- Length29 min
- Season1
- Episode2
- RatingClean