^^^ Fabulous old litho's & interesting links James... Thanks for sharing, posting these.... I remember the Granite Club in Toronto, located in the Yonge & St. Clair area, then in the early 70's moving north a bit to Bayview Avenue, between Lawrence & Bayview not far from where I grew up & went to school, remember it being built. Very much an upper middle class / upper class "by invitation only" establishment even back 125yrs ago, the players on their sponsored hockey teams all the sons of wealthy scions, Captains of Industry & Law Firms, Bankers & so on....
I recognize a few names in a couple of those old photos you posted earlier & at least a couple (if not more) went on to cut quite the swaths in legal, financial & political circles. Those were the sons of the wealthy & powerful, the landed gentry, as were many in the photo of the Osgoode Hockey Team, Osgoode Hall the preeminent law school in Canada then (along with McGill) as now. Those photo's tell one much of hockeys early years, that it was a "gentlemans game" played primarily by the sons of the wealthy, at private schools, universities.... and huge resistance to the "corruption of the game" that professionalism represented to those who oversaw the sport in Toronto during its formative years.