Artifactuality

This episode 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://www.historymuseum.ca/dod/podcasts/transcripts/s01e02
 
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

Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes National Historic Event
https://parks.canada.ca/culture/designation/evenement-event/colored-hockey-league


What is Artifactuality?

Come behind the scenes at the Canadian Museum of History with award-winning novelist Kim Thúy. Hear about meaningful events and remarkable people in Canadian history, culture, and society from museum experts and the people who experienced them. What can objects and stories from the past tell us about who we are today? How will current events be remembered in the future? History is found in the voices of people who lived it, the things they made and used, and the culture and society we share. Discover how objects and stories connect us with our past, present, and future.

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