Hello,
My teacher asked us to right a blog on any african canadian that we think made an impact to the country. I have a major interest in hockey and so i decided to right about the first black man to play hockey. Born October 1935 , Fredricton New Brunswick Willie o"ree had a passion for hockey when he was young.
O'Ree was called up to the Boston Bruins of the NHL to replace an injured player. O'Ree was 95% blind in his right eye due to being hit there by an errant puck two years earlier. That makes him a special player. Normally that would have had him quit the game but O'ree didn't. However he decided to keep it a secret and made his debut in 1958 . Willie O'Ree noted that "racist remarks were much worse in the U.S. cities than in Toronto and Montreal," the two Canadian cities hosting NHL teams at the time, and that "Fans would yell, 'Go back to the South' and 'How come you're not picking cotton?' Things like that. It didn't bother me. I just wanted to be a hockey player, and if they couldn't accept that fact, that was their problem, not mine.
Goodbye and thanks for readin my report on willie O'ree , a very special man.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Willie O'ree (First African Canadian to Play Hockey)
Posted by M-sens-eshal at 8:16 AM
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Hi Meshal,
Some excellent information here. Well done. One quick thing - when you are writing, you spell it "write", not "right".
Also, go into Settings - Comments and change "show word verification for comments" to "no".
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