The first question that will drive the research for this essay and provide some context behind the thesis is, how were Canada and hockey dependent of each other? With this we can go more in depth and follow the specificities of the dependency; were they dependent economically? Technologically? Questions must then be posed to help find the evidence to support the sub-arguments in the thesis; how was the war a reflection of the growing “importance” of violence in hockey? What else was happening during that time, that might affect its importance ? How did Canada come to its independency from Britain? Was the forming of professional hockey teams and a hockey league, propelled because of this independency? Did the separatist movement affect how
