Doug Graham is lean with hockey memories.

"We can remember playing in the old Jim Light Arena downtown when it was 30 below, and the windows used to always get broken of course in the summertime, and the wind would be coming through, and the snow – and we'd still be out there playing hockey,” he said.

"It was those kinds of things that made it fun.”

Graham is a member of the sub-committee working with the MacBride Museum of Yukon History to bring such black and white memories back to life to create a public display on Yukon's hockey history for Hockey Day in Canada on Feb. 12.

The MacBride Museum has put the call out for photographs, trophies, sticks, jerseys or anything else that helps tell the story of Canada's pastime in the Yukon.

The museum will take the hockey memorabilia on loan, use them for public displays in the museum, the Canada Games Centre and Takhini Arena, as well as other Hockey Day in Canada venues.

The pieces would then be returned to their owners, or kept at the MacBride for possible use in a long-term display.

"The rest of Canada all has their stories as well, but I think the rest of Canada is interested in how things have evolved in the Yukon, because the Yukon's got that mystique,” Graham said. "So to see how we've matured and developed over the years will be interesting to them as well.”

Graham has been playing hockey in the Yukon continually since 1955.

He moved to Porter Creek when he was "a young fella,” before the subdivision was part of the city, and helped form the Porter Creek Rams at roughly 12-years-old, in the early 1960s.

"We were promptly thrashed by the teams in the city of Whitehorse, but as Porter Creek grew, we became much more competitive. ... It's interesting, little things like that you remember,” Graham said.

The display will go further back, starting with the Dawson City Nuggets travelling to Ottawa to play the Silver Seven for the Stanley Cup in 1905, and leading up to the present day.

All memorabilia is welcome, said Leighann Chalykoff, communications director and collections researcher at the MacBride Museum.

The idea for collecting Yukon's hockey history started when the MacBride started re-creating an old Yukon hockey sweater for the national event.

"This was sort of the perfect way for us to be involved,” Chalykoff said. "We went with the jersey idea and then it blossomed into something greater than that.”

The original sweater was found on an undated photo (believed to be from the 1930s or 1940s) that depicts a man wearing the jersey with a white horse inset into a maple leaf, she said.

"Instead of trying to create them exactly, we've tried to create a historic-themed jersey, because we thought, we're never going to get them exactly the way that they were. But if anyone out there has one, we'd love to see it.”

The first batch of 48 jerseys arrived last Friday and are sold out. More, including children's sizes, will arrive within 10 days. Ten of those jerseys are still up for grabs, Chalykoff said.

More are coming, she added.

Anyone who would like to pre-order a jersey – which costs $99 apiece plus tax – or wants to submit a piece of Yukon hockey memorabilia, can call the MacBride at 667-2709, ext. 3.