The Patricks’s Hockey Empire: Cultural Entrepreneurship and the Pacific Coast Hockey Association, 1911–1924

2018/05/24 by John Wong · 2 citations
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Sports, Gender, and Society #American Sports and Literature #Canadian Identity and History #League #Ice hockey #Empire #Political science #Economic history #Entrepreneurship #Economy #History #Media studies #Advertising #Sociology #Law #Business #Economics

paper · doi:10.1080/09523367.2018.1540411

openalex publication_date 2018/05/24 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29

Abstract

At the turn of the twentieth century, two brothers started a professional ice hockey league in the Canadian Pacific Northwest. Their league would go on to challenge for the supremacy of the sport, and its franchises won on several occasions. By bringing hockey to the region, the Patrick brothers helped spread a popular Canadian cultural pastime to a region where it did not exist before thus making them cultural entrepreneurs.

Cited by

• Frank Patrick (ice hockey) [wikipedia]
• Pacific Coast Hockey Association [wikipedia]

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