Three of the most respected researchers in hockey shock the world with their findings in On the Origin of Hockey . Hockey was in fact played in England before it was played in Canada. Their proof? Charles Darwin. Buy The Book: Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com From The Publisher: The debate about the origin of hockey appears to be as old as the debate about the origin of species, though if we compare the number of pages dedicated in every day's newspapers to hockey and those dedicated to animals and plants, the relative importance of each quickly becomes obvious (well, to hockey fans at least). Hockey historians have been looking for the smallest piece of evidence that would reveal the secrets of the origin of hockey. However a wealth of evidence is available - as soon as one starts looking in the right place. This book does not present a new theory based on slivers of evidence. It is a presentation of known facts about the origins of hockey, based on tens of thou...