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From Frozen Ponds to Beehive GloryRead how the community raised $200,000 in 1949 to build Dixie Arena Gardens and how the Dixie Beehives became a dynasty in Ontario hockey winning four league and three Provincial championships. Discover that the Beehives sent 48 players into the NHL and dozens of others into the WHA and European leagues. The book lists the names of more than 700 players who proudly wore the Dixie Beehive sweaters in the team's three decades. We explore the story of how Dr. Arthur Wood changed the way hockey is played world-wide with his invention, a hockey mouth-guard and plastic helmet, first used at Dixie Arena. From Frozen Ponds to Beehive Glory is 224 pages with more than 90 pictures reflecting on the early days of skating and hockey, from the frozen ponds of Peel to the advent of artificial ice at Dixie Arena. 20 Chapters in the book include: the establishment of the Dixie Curling Club, a sister facility to the hockey arena, a look at Lester's Arena (built following WWII which utilized natural ice drawn from the Etobicoke Creek), Canada's first automobile auction established at Dixie Arena, The Mississauga Figure Skating Club, St. Lawrence Starch, the Stanfield hockey family, the Pallett family, and how the once proud ice palace in Dixie became the "thorn" in the side of its surrounding populace when it was converted into North America's largest non-alcoholic night club and finally its demolition. |
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