ON THIS DAY

January 25, 1924 Canada competed in the first Winter Olympic Games, held in Chamonix, France. The Canadian ice-hockey team, comprised of Granite Club players from Toronto, won all five of its matches, outscoring its opponents 110 to 3. The closest contest was the gold-medal game, in which Canada defeated the United States 6–1. Four years earlier, Canada’s Winnipeg Falcons had won the country’s first-ever hockey gold medal in Olympic events held in Belgium; those Games, which took place in the spring, were formally classed as “Summer’ games.