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Timeline — Evolution Of Women's Hockey
	1890s	Women's hockey gains popularity in universities, principally at the University of Toronto and Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.
	1920s	Bobbie Rosenfeld and Myrtle Cook, former track stars and hockey players in their own rights, become Canada's first women sports reporters, specializing in hockey during the winter.
	1930s	The Preston Rivulettes rule the ice lanes (see Hilda Ranscombe).
	1940s	The war halts any development of the women's game, which doesn't revive until the early 1970s.
	1956	Abby Hoffman challenged hockey's gender barrier by playing in a boys league under the guise of being male.
	1970s	Shirley Cameron becomes hockey's first star of the modern era.
	1987	The first ever Women's World Championship takes place in Toronto. However, it is not recognized as an official tournament by the IIHF.
	1990	The first official and IIHF-sanctioned Women's World Championship is held in Ottawa.
	1998	Women's hockey becomes a full medal sport at the Olympic Winter Games for the first time.
	1999	The women's division at the World Championships expands to two pools, A and B.
	2005	USA ends Canada's streak of eight straight (nine unofficial) world titles in a shoot-out.
	2006	Sweden becomes the first non-North American team to earn silver at the Winter Olympic Games beating United States in the semi-finals.

"Name the most significant moment in women's hockey?" "When the 1990 tournament was recognized as an official World Championship, it brought significant world exposure." - Andria Hunter (two-time gold medalist at the Worlds with Team Canada and producer of the 'The Women's Hockey Web' site) "The 1982 (Canadian) Nationals." - Dawn McGuire (two-time gold medalist at Worlds, led Canadian defense with 7 points at the '90 Worlds) "There are two. One... women's hockey participating on the Olympic stage, in Nagano, 1998 where the US captured gold. Two…the first championships (Stanley Cup) for women's league hockey being won in March, 2000 in Brampton! The Beatrice Aeros win the first ever CUP. This is an NWHL top moment. Historically, live broadcast across Canada." - Susan Fennell (President of the National Women's Hockey League and Mayor of the City of Brampton) "There are two. One is the first World Women's Championships in 1990 held in Ottawa and the second is the formation of the (Canadian) Nationals in 1982." - Shelley Coolidge (Manager, Female Development, with the Canadian Hockey Association) "The United States winning the first Olympic gold medal in 1998." - Brian McFarlane (author to over 75 books including 'Proud Past, Bright Future' - a history of women's hockey) "When the IOC made women's hockey a medal sport." - Andrew Podnieks (author to over 20 hockey books including 'Hockey's Greatest Teams' - includes chapter on Preston Rivulettes)

Preston Rivulettes