James Thomas Sutherland was a Canadian ice hockey administrator, and founding father of the game in Canada. Sutherland was a pioneer of hockey's early years, helping to develop amateur hockey, and spread the game's popularity throughout the country, and into the United States. He played in the inaugural season of the Ontario Hockey Association, and later coached and refereed the game. He founded the original Kingston Frontenacs, and later became president of the Ontario Hockey Association, and then the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association. He was instrumental in founding the Memorial Cup in 1919, and was at the forefront of the discussion on the origins of hockey.
James T. Sutherland
Sutherland coached the Kingston Frontenacs team in 1899, that won the J. Ross Robertson Cup as champions of the OHA's intermediate division.
Sutherland's idea to remember fallen soldiers in World War I became the Memorial Cup.
The International Hockey Hall of Fame in Kingston
Ontario Hockey Association
The Ontario Hockey Association (OHA) is the governing body for the majority of junior and senior level ice hockey teams in the province of Ontario. Founded in 1890, the OHA is sanctioned by the Ontario Hockey Federation along with the Northern Ontario Hockey Association. Other Ontario sanctioning bodies along with the OHF include the Hockey Eastern Ontario and Hockey Northwestern Ontario. The OHA controls three tiers of junior hockey; the "Tier 2 Junior "A", Junior "B", Junior "C", and one senior hockey league, Allan Cup Hockey.
The Memorial Cup
John Ross Robertson
W. A. Hewitt
The OHA offices were once located in Somerset House, upstairs from a Canadian Bank of Commerce branch at 51 Carlton Street in Toronto.