This is the earliest painting of British troops skating with something that looks like a Hockey stick.
Painting by Helen Maria Campbell - dated to early 1830s.
A group of skaters gliding serenely on a frozen river, bundled ladies in sleighs amid the striding military men, snow-covered hills rolling to the horizon beyond a tree-lined shore.
A mid-winter frolic on the ice-covered Saint John River near Fredericton.