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Canadiens Stanley Cup banner raised in Grimsby, Ontario as part of alumni celebrations

The Montreal Canadiens Alumni played a friendly game in Grimsby, Ontario at the Peach King Arena on Sunday afternoon against the Town of Grimsby All-Stars, in a celebration of a Stanley Cup banner raising ceremony for the 1923-24 edition of the Canadiens.

The Canadiens held three training camps in the small Ontario town east of Hamilton from 1922 to 1924, at the Grimsby Arena that had one of only two artificial ice arenas east of Winnipeg.

“The ice rink was made possible due to its proximity to Gower’s Cold Storage and Ice Company, a fruit cooling plant.