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    The Renfrew Hockey Club, also known as the Creamery Kings and the Millionaires, was a founding franchise in 1909 of the National Hockey Association, the...
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    another TPHL team, the Haileybury Comets, the Federal League's Renfrew Creamery Kings and Les Canadiens and Wanderers of Montreal. The league was founded...
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  • time, Ambrose O'Brien of Renfrew, Ontario– scion of a prosperous silver mine owner and founder of the Renfrew Creamery Kings ice hockey team –was seeking...
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    Cyclone Taylor (category Renfrew Hockey Club players)
    as baseball's Ty Cobb, and in 1909, when Taylor signed with the Renfrew Creamery Kings, the pair were the highest paid athletes in their respective sports...
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  • the Renfrew Creamery Kings club to play as the Brockville entry. This was unacceptable to the Ottawa Victorias, which refused to play the Renfrew players...
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    Fred Whitcroft (category Renfrew Hockey Club players)
    notable amateur and early professional hockey squads, including the Renfrew Creamery Kings, Edmonton Eskimos and Kenora Thistles, between 1906 and 1910. He...
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  • Jack Fraser (ice hockey, born 1882) (category Sportspeople from Renfrew County)
    was a Canadian professional ice hockey winger. He played with the Renfrew Creamery Kings of the National Hockey Association in the 1909–10 season. SIHR –...
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    Hockey Association, the precursor to the NHL, was based in Renfrew. The Renfrew Creamery Kings sought to be allowed to play in the Eastern Canada Amateur...
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    Lester Patrick (category Renfrew Hockey Club players)
    salary to join the Renfrew Creamery Kings of the National Hockey Association, though both returned to Nelson after one season with Renfrew. In 1911 the brothers...
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    Ernie Liffiton (category Renfrew Hockey Club players)
    career he played for Pittsburgh Bankers, Pittsburgh Professionals, Renfrew Creamery Kings, Montreal Wanderers, Halifax Crescents and the Toronto Tecumsehs...
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    entries, Ottawa Senators, Renfrew Creamery Kings and Smith's Falls. Smith's Falls had previously played in the league. Renfrew was the class of the league...
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    Don Smith (ice hockey, born 1887) (category Renfrew Hockey Club players)
    Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Shamrocks, Montreal Wanderers and Renfrew Creamery Kings. He was an older brother of ice hockey and lacrosse player Guy Smith...
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    Newsy Lalonde (category Renfrew Hockey Club players)
    Canadiens. Halfway through the season, the Habs traded him to the Renfrew Creamery Kings, for whom Lalonde led the league in scoring. He rejoined the Canadiens...
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    Hay Millar (category Renfrew Hockey Club players)
    was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played with the Renfrew Creamery Kings of the National Hockey Association, in the 1909–10 season. Previously...
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  • Barney Gillerain (category Renfrew Hockey Club players)
    was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played with the Renfrew Creamery Kings of the National Hockey Association. Hockey deaths - August 1954...
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    Larry Gilmour (category Renfrew Hockey Club players)
    the Renfrew Creamery Kings, playing for the club until 1911. In 1908, Gilmour also played for the Brockville, Ontario Hockey Club when the Kings were...
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    Frank Patrick (ice hockey) (category Renfrew Hockey Club players)
    brothers returned to Central Canada in 1909 when they signed with the Renfrew Creamery Kings for one season. The Patrick family sold their lumber company in...
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    Sprague Cleghorn (category Renfrew Hockey Club players)
    who played 17 professional seasons between 1911 and 1929 for the Renfrew Creamery Kings and Montreal Wanderers in the National Hockey Association (NHA)...
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    Steve Vair (category Renfrew Hockey Club players)
    with were the Montreal Wanderers, Cobalt Silver Kings, Toronto Tecumsehs, and Renfrew Creamery Kings. After his playing career Vair acted as a referee...
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    Ambrose O'Brien (category People from Renfrew County)
    later Montreal Canadiens, and bought the Renfrew Creamery Kings. In the 1909–10 NHA season, the Creamery Kings received the nickname "Millionaires" as...
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    professional teams, and billed itself as the 'Federal League.' The Renfrew Creamery Kings of the Upper Ottawa Valley Hockey League would play in the league...
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  • his application for the Renfrew Creamery Kings to join the ECHA, that they form a new league, including the Wanderers, Renfrew and the Cobalt and Haileybury...
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  • secretary) Directors: Eddie McCafferty, Wanderers John Ambrose O'Brien, Renfrew W. P. Humphrey, Shamrocks George Kennedy, Canadiens Joe Power, Quebec The...
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  • Wanderers' application to join, Wanderers' manager Jimmy Gardner, along with Renfrew's Ambrose O'Brien worked to put together enough teams to form a league....
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    Odie Cleghorn (category Renfrew Hockey Club players)
    season, in 1910–11, Odie and Sprague left New York to play with the Renfrew Creamery Kings of the National Hockey Association. Cleghorn played ten seasons...
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    Jimmy Gardner, as well as the application of Ambrose O'Brien's Renfrew Creamery Kings. Before leaving the building, Gardner and O'Brien decided to form...
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    Ambrose O'Brien of Renfrew, Ontario, was in Montreal to purchase supplies for a railway contract. At the request of the Renfrew Creamery Kings hockey team,...
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    franchises in the NHA: the Cobalt Silver Kings, Haileybury Comets, Les Canadiens and the Renfrew Creamery Kings. In 1910, O'Brien suspended the Cobalt,...
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    form the National Hockey Association (NHA) with the Renfrew Creamery Kings, Cobalt Silver Kings and Haileybury Comets of the Temiscaming league. The...
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    Harold McNamara (category Renfrew Hockey Club players)
    the Ontario Professional Hockey League; and the Cobalt Silver Kings, Renfrew Creamery Kings, Toronto Ontarios and Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey...
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