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Something else Canada should thank us for... :-) Mic-Mac hockey sticks[edit] Mikmaq making hockey sticks from hornbeam trees (Carpinus caroliniana) in Nova Scotia about 1890. The Mikmaq practice of playing hockey appeared in recorded colonial histories from as early as the 18th century. Since the nineteenth century, the Mikmaq were credited with inventing the ice hockey stick.[34] The oldest known hockey stick was made between 1852 and 1856. Recently, it was appraised at $4 million US and sold for $2.2 million US. The stick was carved by Mi’kmaq from Nova Scotia, who made it from Hornbeam, also known as ironwood.[35] In the mid-nineteenth century, the Starr Manufacturing Company began to sell the Mic-Mac hockey sticks nationally and internationally.[36] Hockey became a popular sport in Canada in the 1890s.[37] Throughout the first decade of the twentieth century, the Mic-Mac Hockey Stick was the best-selling hockey stick in Canada. By 1903, apart from farming, the principal occupation of the Mikmaq on reserves throughout Nova Scotia, and particularly on the Shubenacadie, Indian Brook and Millbrook Reserves, was producing the Mic-Mac Hockey Stick.[36] The department of Indian Affairs for Nova Scotia noted in 1927, that the Mikmaq remained the experts at making hockey sticks.[38] The Mikmaq continued to make hockey sticks until the 1930s, when the product was industrialized.[39]
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