Hockey's Founding Father Honoured

From CanWest News Services:

Nearly 80 years after his death in Ottawa, and burial at a city cemetery in an unmarked grave, the man widely hailed as the “founding father” of modern hockey has been honoured with a modest stone marker, a plaque highlighting his achievements, and glowing praise from Canada’s best-known hockey history buff: Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

At a ceremony Saturday in Beechwood National Cemetery, Harper and several fellow members of the Society for International Hockey Research paid belated tribute to James Creighton, the Halifax-born sports pioneer credited with codifying and spreading the game that would become Canada’s greatest winter passion and de facto national religion.

Full Story. Also, more at the SIHR website.

UPDATE: Here's a CTV story complete with a video report.