Fifty years ago, the Lumber Kings were the toast of the newly minted city of Pembroke. The 1972-73 Lumber Kings had put together a season for the ages, losing only […]

Richard Samson loved playing for the Pembroke Lumber Kings.  A visit to his home and a mere mention of his time playing goal for his hometown junior hockey team could […]

The 2021-22 season was supposed to be the opportunity for the Central Canada Hockey League season to put the COVID-19 pandemic in the rearview mirror, but as the calendar turned […]

Pembroke Lumber Kings General Manager Art Bogart was expecting big things from his hockey club as the season approached.  Like the rest of the country, Bogart was paying attention to […]

New players, a new team captain, new assistant coach and a new season.  Pembroke Lumber Kings hockey returns this weekend with a lot of new faces playing in the oldest […]

Morris Snider was busy.  As the first manager of the new Pembroke Memorial Centre he was expected to turn the new arena into a profitable enterprise, especially after the town […]

The Pembroke Peach had waited four years to receive his Hall of Fame scroll.  The Hall had called Frank Nighbor’s name in 1947, more than 15 years after he had […]

It was time to play a game at Pembroke’s new hockey arena.  On Saturday, October 27, 1951 as last-minute construction continued on the Pembroke Memorial Centre, the Pembroke Senior Lumber […]

It has been seven decades since the Pembroke Memorial Centre opened its doors.  The official opening was led by Ontario’s Governor General, Ray Lawson, on November 11, 1951 when close […]

It will have been 565 days since the Pembroke Lumber Kings played a meaningful hockey game when the team returns to the ice to start its 2021-22 Central Canada Hockey […]