What is Hockey Hall of Fame?
[[File:Hockey Hall of Fame, Toronto.jpg|thumb|right|260px|Outside of the Hockey Hall of Fame building in [[Toronto]]]] The '''Hockey Hall of Fame''' ({{lang-fr|Temple de la renommée du hockey}}) is in [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]]. It is both a sports history [[museum]] and a [[hall of fame]]. It holds displays about players, teams, [[National Hockey League]] (NHL) records, and [[National Hockey League awards|NHL trophies]], including the [[Stanley Cup]]. First opened in [[Kingston, Ontario]], the Hockey Hall of Fame was first began in 1943 by [[James T. Sutherland]]. The first group of members was selected in 1945, before the Hall of Fame had a permanent location. It moved to Toronto in 1958 after the NHL took away its support for the Kingston location. Its first permanent building opened at [[Exhibition Place]] in 1961. Because the Hall was getting too big for its location, it was moved to an old [[Bank of Montreal]] building in downtown Toronto in 1993, where it currently is. ==References== * {{cite book | title = Honoured members: the Hockey Hall of Fame| url = https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781551682396_q1c0| publisher = Fenn Publishing | date = 2003 | location = Canada | isbn = 1-55168-239-7}} ==Other websites== {{commons|Hockey Hall of Fame}} *[http://www.hhof.com The Hockey Hall of Fame official site] *[http://www.historyoftoronto.ca/history/buildings5.html History of Toronto: Hockey Hall of Fame] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051124101122/http://www.historyoftoronto.ca/history/buildings5.html |date=2005-11-24 }} {{NHL}} {{sport-stub}} [[Category:Hockey Hall of Fame| ]] [[Category:Ice hockey in Canada]]