University women playing hockey at [Nutana Collegiate Rink], 1915.

Hockey team members, Eddie Carr (coach), F. Miller, Ginger Catherwood, Alda Mathers, F. Mahaffy, O. Leitch, F. Brown, Queade Isabel Helen Johnston.

Bio/Historical Note: Born in Hannah, North Dakota in 1902, Ginevra (Ginger) Irene Catherwood and her family moved to a homestead just outside Scott, Saskatchewan, four years later. Ginger likely learned to skate and play hockey on frozen sloughs. She also played baseball and excelled as pitcher. Catherwood entered the University of Saskatchewan on a scholarship in 1919. It was on the ice, as captain of the Varsity women’s hockey team, where she excelled. Catherwood’s arrival at the U of S coincided with the beginning of inter-varsity competition in women’s hockey. During the 1920-1921 season, playing against the University of Manitoba, Catherwood scored five goals in the first period and finished the game with three more in a 9-1 victory. She netted four goals in the first 11 minutes in a match against the University of Alberta. The final score was Saskatchewan 7 (Catherwood 6) and Alberta 1. The Saskatoon Star-Phoenix declared the U of S team the unofficial champion of university women’s hockey that season (there was no formal league at the time.) Opposing teams quickly learned that Catherwood was a scoring threat every time she had the puck. During the 1921-1922 season, she was hurt in the first period in a game in Edmonton and left the ice. The team squeaked out a 2-1 win. She was still nursing her injury in the next game against Manitoba and played defence in a 2-2 tie. Catherwood graduated with a three-year Arts degree in 1922. After attending Normal School in Saskatoon, she found work as a teacher in the Plenty, Saskatchewan district. Then in 1928, her sister Ethel won Olympic gold in high jump and Ginger was called upon by their family to chaperone her during her Canadian travels. Ginger was rumoured to have accompanied Ethel when she left Canada for the United States sometime around 1932. Ginger Catherwood later married English-born Charles Mitchell in Toronto in the fall of 1933.

Individual photographs of hockey team members grouped; champions of Saskatoon-Prince Albert League. Players, top row: E.K. (Kent) Phillips, forward; Charlie Hay, goal (captain); Vern DeGeer (asst. mgr); Alfred Leroy Paine, forward; William Charles (Bill) Broadfoot at centre (mgr). Bottom row: George L. Art, forward; H.E. (Hap) Wilson, defence; Colb McEown (trainer); Ward Turvey, defence; Stuart Fulton Conrod, forward.

Hockey team members in uniforms and equipment; taken outdoors. Identified are Reginald Brehaut (coach; with hat), Charlie Hay (capt), K. Dewar (asst mgr) and Prof. Lovell (mgr.).

Huskiettes team members: Vi Harper, Mavis Bennett, Jean McMillan, Pat Lamone, Eleanor McFadyen, Joyce Hindley.

Image of Georgia McConnell, dressed in uniform, posing for the camera.

Bio/Historical Note: Georgia E. McConnell graduated from the School of Accounting in 1939.

Lew Parres, Huskies player, in uniform with his stick on the ice.

Bio/Historical Note: Alfred Lewis (Lew) Parres was born 19 February 1915. He was a juvenile and junior hockey star with the Nutana Athletic Club in Saskatoon. He also excelled at track and field, winning many awards. In 1932 his brother Jim entered Geological Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan with Lew following in 1934. Lew played hockey for the Huskies and after graduation could have had a career in hockey but chose the mining business instead. Parres was a staunch Northerner. He knew the North and loved the North. His vision in proposing a new Northern Province (which he called Precambria) was to keep the wealth (especially the tremendous mineral wealth) of the North in the North working to improve the lives of Northerners. His dream was to combine Northern Manitoba and Northern Saskatchewan and a small piece of Northern Alberta into one entity. His plan was backed by the local Chamber of Commerce in the early 1950s and made headlines across western Canada.