Joseph Patrick

Joseph Patrick (August 4, 1857 – January 28, 1941) was a Canadian businessman who helped start the Pacific Coast Hockey Association with his sons Lester and Frank.

[2] They had eight children, and the two oldest, Lester and Frank, were eventually elected into the Hockey Hall of Fame.

[8][9][10] Patrick and his family moved to Victoria in 1912, when the new league, the Pacific Coast Hockey Association, began play.

[11][12] His sons made several innovations in ice hockey during this time, and Patrick came up with the idea to put numbers on the players' uniforms.

He was the fifth member of his family to be inducted, after Lester, Frank, and his grandsons, Lynn and Muzz.