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Tue Jan 13, 2015, 05:02 PM Jan 2015

Museum pays $300,000 for world's oldest known hockey stick


Mark Presley holds what is believed to be the world's oldest known ice hockey stick during an announcement at the Canadian Museum of History in Ottawa on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2015. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Sean Kilpatrick)

GATINEAU, Quebec (AP) -- Mark Presley lets his mind wander, imagining William Moffatt playing hockey on a small Nova Scotia lake almost 200 years ago.

Moffatt, nicknamed "Dilly" and born in 1829, is believed to have been the original owner of what the Canadian Museum of History says is the world's oldest known hockey stick.

The son of Loyalist shipbuilders who settled on the shores of Pottle Lake, Dilly would have been less than 10 years old when the stick was fashioned from a single tree branch. He took ownership of the short-handled stick by carving his initials into its long blade.

Now the stick sits in a protective case, awaiting its unveiling when the Canadian Museum of Civilization is officially reopened as the Museum of History on Canada Day in 2017.

Presley was fascinated by the stick when he found it in a barber shop in 2008 in North Sydney, Nova Scotia. His fascination was such that he paid $1,000 for it.

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