Black Canadian Curriculum – ETFO – 2014

Angela James Timeline

December 22, 1964Angela James, in Toronto, Ontario.

1968Attended elementary school in Flemingdon Park neighbourhood of Toronto

1972At age eight, she joined a boys’ house league in Flemingdon Park. 

1974Angela James quickly became the league’s top scorer, but in her second 

year, a new league policy was passed which restricted membership to 

boys only. 

1978Attended Valley Park Middle School in Toronto

1978At the age of 13, she started playing senior women’s hockey with the 

Newtonbrook Saints. 

1981Attended Overlea High School. 

1979-1984Angela played in the Ontario Women’s Hockey Association, where she 

dominated. While leading her team to numerous OWHA league and 

provincial championships, she was the leading scorer in eight seasons and 

most valuable player in six. Her style was described as a combination of 

the aggressiveness of Mark Messier combined with the pure goal-scoring 

talent of Mike Bossy.

1985She won a Youth of the Year Award.

1984-1985At Seneca College in Toronto, Ontario, she led her team to several 

college championships and was the leading scorer in the league for three 

consecutive seasons, scoring 50 goals while playing defence.

1985Graduated from Seneca College with Recreation Facilities Management 

from Seneca College and was hired as the schools’ sports programmer.  

1990She was selected to join Canada’s team at the inaugural Women’s 

Championship, held in Ottawa, where she led the team to the gold medal 

with 11 goals in 5 games. 

1992She was recognized by the City of Toronto as one of its Women in Sport 

Enhancement.

1994-1996She met her partner, Ange, and the couple formalized their relationship in a 

commitment ceremony two years later.

1992-1997Led the Women’s Team to gold medals in Tampere, Finland, 1994 in Lake 

Placid, United States and 1997 in Kitchener, Ontario.