Ottawa Alerts (original)

The Ottawa Alerts were a women's ice hockey team from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The team was established in 1915 and its members came from the Ottawa Ladies' College and the local YWCA who had both previously had teams that played games in the Ottawa area. Their first coach was the famous Hamby Shore. In 1916, the Alerts defeated the Pittsburgh Ladies Club three times in one day and then defeated the Toronto club the following day. The Alerts were defeated in the Canadian championship later that year, losing to the Cornwall Victorias. The Alerts did defeated the Pittsburgh Polar Maids in 1917 to become world champions. The team would be involved in the formation of the Ladies Ontario Hockey Association in 1922.Coast to Coast:Hockey in Canada to the Second World War, p.136, Edited by John Chi-Kit Wong, University of Toronto Press, 2009, The team also won the Canadian championship in the 1922/1923 season. The club then passed under the sponsorship of the Ottawa Rowing Club. The team would win one more Canadian championship before it was folded in 1929.
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Category:Women's ice hockey teams in Canada
Category:Ice hockey in Ottawa