Welcome back to Purple Posts, a podcast about the memorable, funny, and sometimes just strange moments in the history of women’s hockey. On this episode, host LJ is joined by Elisha Côté, TIG’s Ottawa Charge beat writer, to talk about the Ottawa Alerts, an early 20th-century women’s hockey team in Canada’s Capital Region, with some diversions into what it would be like to play hockey in a skirt, why Ottawa has a bad track record with sports team names, and trying to solve the mystery of a trophy’s namesake dentist.

Sources for this episode include:

• https://todayinottawashistory.wordpress.com/2022/03/12/the-ottawa-alerts/
• https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-alert-a-tribute-to-women-who-helped-break-the-ice-a-century-ago-1.7015481
• https://teams.geegees.ca/tradition/alertscup
• https://hockeygods.com/images/22333-Ottawa_Alerts_1923_LOHA_Champions___Women_s_Ice_Hockey_History
• https://thehockeynews.com/womens/other-news/ottawa-swept-first-international-womens-hockey-series
• https://ottawatourism.ca/en/connect-ottawa/evolution-ottawas-professional-womens-hockey-league
• https://www.historicalsocietyottawa.ca/publications/past-presentations/women-on-ice-ottawa-s-own
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Intro and outro music: Modestly Rude by Jhovanny Fontanez © copyright 2009. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. https://dig.ccmixter.org/files/Nobuo3000/19015