The Kenora Thistles were an
ice hockey team who won the
Stanley Cup in
1907. The town of
Kenora, Ontario,
Canada is the smallest town to have ever won the Cup.The town of
Kenora, Ontario was originally known as
Rat Portage. In the early 1890s, an amateur senior hockey club was formed. A contest to name the team was held, and the winning entry came from a Scottish carpenter named Bill Dunsmore, who submitted the nickname Thistles along with a drawing of a Thistle for the team logo. By January, 1896, several young boys of the Rat Portage area, most of them between the ages of 11-14, formed a junior ice hockey team, which went on to beat the senior team in an exhibition. Among these boys were future
Hockey Hall of Famers Tommy Phillips,
Tom Hooper,
Billy McGimsie, and
Silas Griffis.
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