The 1947 Ice Hockey World Championships were the 14th World Championships and 25th European Championship was the first after the Second World War. It was held from 15 to 23 February 1947 at Štvanice S
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William George Hardy was a Canadian professor, writer, and ice hockey administrator. He lectured on the Classics at the University of Alberta from 1922 to 1964, and served as president of the Canadian
1947 Ice Hockey World Championships
…AHAUS) to form the International Ice Hockey Association, and invited the British Ice Hockey Association to join. The new group was led by CAHA president W. G. Hardy, and was a means of shifting the control of world hockey from Europe to Canada. The CAHA severed its ties to the LIHG in 1944, and pledged allegiance…
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Hardy was a student at Victoria College (pictured) from 1913 to 1917, while studying Classics at the University of Toronto.
From 1922 to 1964, Hardy was a professor at the University of Alberta (pictured in 1929).
Hardy pushed for a new definition of amateur, in the wake of Canada not winning the gold medal in ice hockey at the 1936 Winter Olympics hosted in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.