In this era, when a hockey team had to travel to a nearby town for a game, a passenger car was ordered from the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). It would arrive in the late afternoon to load the team and its fans. The car would be left at the destination (in this case, the near-by town of Qu’Appelle, Saskatchewan) and the railway would arrange to pick the car up later in the evening to take the group home. The car would be equipped with a pot-bellied stove for warmth.