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Sproule notes:

60. James Dee, representing Portage Lakes, wanted to help form new league for team, as they had no serious competition.

65. Meetings were held in Detroit in August 1904 to form a new league. Proposed American Hockey League, saw representatives from Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Duluth, Grand Rapids, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Montreal, New York, St Louis, and St. Paul. Soo, Ontario also expressed interest, but not there for first meeting. November another meeting held, with Calumet, Houghton, Pittsburgh, both Soos, in Chicago. IHL agreed as name of league. Lists who was there, executives of the new league, schedule. Revenue sharing agreed: 60% of gate would go to home, 40% to visitor, as it would cover costs out to Pittsburgh, while gaining money from Duquesne Arena, which was large.

66. Adopted Quebec rules, which had major difference from OHA regarding off-side: no passing to where player was going to be, instead player had to pass backwards always.

68. Formation of new Calumet team. Wore pearl gray and cardinal red.

77. 1904-05 season was 3 home and 3 away against every team. Player transactions also noted. First game Dec. 9, 1904: Portage at Pittsburgh; PL Barney Holden scored first goal, a 6-3 PL win.

80. Final standings, stats.

82. 1905-06 season. New executives.

84. 1905-06 standings, stats.

85. 1906-07 season. No trophy ever awarded to the league champion, though there were talks of buying one. Toronto awarded team for 1907-08 season.

86. 1906-07 standings, stats.

88. End of the league.

91: 97 players in IHL. 13 skaters, 2 goalies in HHOF. Every Cup winner from 1907 to 1916 had at least 2 IHL players.

17. Legacy of Gibson.

Croft notes:

42. Directed the Lenora-Mt. Sicker Copper Mining Company, which bought the Lenora mine. Paterson: "Henry Croft must be one of British Columbia's most fascinating characters. He had the credentials - he was a qualified mining and civil engineer - he had the right connections and he had (more or less) the right ideas, but neither the personal resources nor, it would seem, the business abilities to carry his grand schemes to completion. Virtually everything he touched withered and died, including it seems, his marriage."

43. "said to have developed his interest in 'rocks' during a lonely childhood." Attended Rugby then Derby School of Mines, worked in Australia for some years before joining brother Ted in PNW. Ted became farmer but Henry was interested in E&N and lumber marked. Arrived in Chemainus July 1883. Offered $20,000 for the sawmill there, but ended up paying $22,000.Took control with Henry Severn on August 16, 1883. Ordered a stream threshing machine from England to replace the water turbine, which locals noted was stopped due to beavers. Within the year Severn sold out to William Angus.

45. Planned to make Chemainus the terminus for coal mining, but Ladysmith was established for that instead. Completion of E&N meant financial issues. Dunsmuir bought mill in January 1889 for $100,000 and sold to American group. Croft owned much of the Chemainus townsite, so looked to land development, on Saltspring and Victoria. Started Bourchier, Croft & Mallette in late 1889 and purchased 19 acres of Esquimalt waterfront, remote and forested area at the time.

46-47 May 1899 was in talks with a British group to develop Victoria waterfront on James Bay. City endorsed plan but it fell through as backers got scared due to Boer War. This land would become Empress Hotel.

Crofton notes:

136: Established spring of 1902

139: Evidence of native settlement in the area of Crofton dating back thousands of years. Homesteaders arrived before the town was established too (use Paterson's article on the murders).

141: Population in May 1902 was estimated to be "some six families and between 75 and 100 men engaged in constructing the smelter." From W.N. Carr, Presbyterian reverend assigned to Crofton.

142: six weeks after smelter started, it shut down fro at least four months. Even then it only worked intermittently.

159: smelter opened September 24