Dining Room, 1916
Notman & Son, 1856-1935
View-15807, Notman Photographic Archives
©McCord Museum of Canadian History, Montréal

During a meeting of the National Hockey Association (NHA) at the Windsor Hotel, the Canadiens are founded by J. Ambrose O’Brien, and on November 26, 1917, in one of the restaurants of the hotel, the owners of the Montreal Canadiens, the Quebec Bulldogs, the Montreal Wanderers, and the Ottawa Senators founded the National Hockey League (NHL).