On Sunday April 26th, 2020 the Centenary of the Falcons' victory was celebrated at a
special ceremony at the Manitoba Sports Hall Of Fame in Winnipeg.
How the world and the Olympics have changed during this last century!
This is the story of the Winnipeg Falcons, the world's first Olympic Hockey champions.
The Falcons are unique among Olympic hockey teams: not only were they the first champions, but because their descendants, almost all of Icelandic heritage,
still unite to form a common front whenever the reputations of their fathers, grandfathers, uncles or great-uncles are threatened.
I started this website in September 1999 to re-educate the world about Canada's long-forgotten hockey heroes, the Winnipeg Falcons.
I also have a personal interest, since my father Konrad (Konnie) Johannesson played defense on the team. For more about his aviation career, click here.
Their story is divided into 10 parts, hopefully in some kind of chronological order.
Part One - The Team: The history of the Falcons, from the team's beginning in 1911.
Part Two - The People on the Team: Who were they, the world's best hockey team?
Part Three: The 223rd Battalion, Canadian Army: Seven future Olympic team members enlisted in 1916 and went overseas. All survived.
Part Four - the Road to victory: What did it take to win the gold medal in ice hockey at the VIIth Olympiade?
Part Five - The VIIth Olympiade: How different the games were from our modern political, photographic and media extravaganzas.
Part Six - Tourist pictures taken after the Games in Antwerp and Paris.
Part Seven - Home at Last, in Triumph: Let the bandwagons roll, for the best of all reasons.
Part Eight - Atonement: After all these years of disdain and neglect, what's been happening?
Part Nine - Legacy & Mementos: All we have left after 100 years.
Part Ten - Some other interesting pictures.
March 2020:
Click on this image to download a copyright-free high-resolution picture of the Winnipeg Falcons team.
This is a computer-enhanced version of the one originally available for purchase in the Spring/Summer of 1920.
Please use this picture for all future media or archival purposes because of its quality and because it includes the team name,
the occasion, the date and the players' names. Also, please consider replacing any inferior Falcons' pictures
you may be using now with this one.
Computer-enhanced pictures of all the hockey teams and of all the Olympic participants are available for downloading copyright-free.
Historica Canada has released a new Heritage Minute video about the Falcons.
This has led to a lot of publicity about the Falcons, on TV, on the Web and in print.
Here is the video:
The Falcons Forever Committee and Falcons' fans placed an advertisement in the Vancouver Province newspaper.
To see the advertisement page click here. Then press the back button to return to this page.
