Forevergreen TV & Film Productions of Dundas, in association with The Shooting Eye of Hamilton, have been commissioned by WNED/PBS to produce a 60-minute documentary about Canada’s love affair with hockey and how the game helps to define us as a nation.

With so many hockey greats coming from the area — Pat Quinn, Dave Andreychuk, Ken Dryden, Harry Howell, Syl Apps and on and on — the recent efforts to bring NHL hockey back to Hamilton and with Dundas having won the Kraft Hockeyville title, what better place to search out photographs and home movies that reflect our passion for the game from childhood to retirement.

The producers are looking for family photographs and videos or films from local hockey-loving families from as far back as possible and up to the late 1980s.

“We’re looking for visual materials that reflect those moments in time when every kid dreamed of playing for the NHL or on Team Canada,” said producer Alan Aylward.

Those visual materials selected will end up in a legacy documentary that will premier next March on the WNED – PBS station in Buffalo. Contributors will receive acknowledgement in the credits of the film and will have their photographs or video immortalized in what promises to be an inspirational film about hockey and the Nation that owns the game – Canada.

Send digital versions of the files to foreverg@primus.ca with the subject title “hockey.” The producers will not use any materials without the written consent of the contributors and will not circulate or pass on any visual materials sent.