Winnipeg Monarchs

The Winnipeg Monarchs were a Canadian senior ice hockey team from Winnipeg, Manitoba, that was organized in 1906. The Monarchs won the 1915 Allan Cup as the Canadian Senior Hockey Champions. In 1935 the Monarchs won gold for Canada at the World Ice Hockey Championships. History The Monarchs were founded in the 1906 as a team of students from the Victoria-Albert School in Winnipeg, who won the juvenile age group championship of a Winnipeg minor ice hockey league during the 1906–07 season. The Monarchs formed teams at the juvenile and intermediate levels for the 1907–08 season, with both teams winning their respective league championships. The Monarchs went on to win three consecutive intermediate championships, with a roster that included Alex Irvin and Charles Tobin. Fred Marples became secretary of the Monarchs in 1909, and co-ordinated exhibition tours in the United States in 1910 and 1912. The team was admitted to the Winnipeg Amateur Hockey League for the 1910–11 season, but did not win a game. The team won one game during the 1911–12 season then merged with the intermediate level Winnipeg Strathconas in 1912. 1912–13 season The Monarchs merged with the Winnipeg Strathconas as of the 1912–13 season due to struggles in finding ice time, and elected Marples as their president. He was also elected as the secretary-treasurer of the Winnipeg Amateur Hockey League. He arranged extra time at the Winnipeg Amphitheatre for practices and games, and felt that it would improve the chances of the Monarchs winning the Allan Cup. The decision to use the Amphitheatre caused a rift within the league which had an agreement in the previous season to play all games at the Winnipeg Auditorium. Marples and the Monarchs felt that the league did not have the authority to bind any club to any single rink, and that the Amphitheatre had better amenities for the players and spectators. League president W. F. Taylor cast a tie-breaking vote to uphold the agreement to play all games at the Auditorium.