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This weekend was the Montreal CC championship. A little history from 1890 (via Pittsburgh). Workman was a founding member of the MCC. The trophy may have been lost in the fire in 1924 which destroyed Victoria Hall in Westmount (since rebuilt) where the club met.
"The $100 bequeathed to the Montreal Chess Club by the late Thomas Workman [1813-1889 - see link below] has been invested in a memorial trophy - a solid silver shield, 18 inches high by 12 inches wide with maple leaves, etc. The centre is left blank for the winners' names. On top is engraved "Montreal Chess Club - Thomas Workman Memorial Trophy". Below are engraved the officers of the Club for the current year, and on the sides, in an embossed wreath, the date of formation of the club (1844), and the present year (1890). The winner's name each year will be engraved on the memorial, but it will always remain the property of the Club".
http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.0...p?&id_nbr=5911
A book written by H.E. Bird in 1880 - "The Chess Openings with Diagrams of Notable Positions and Problems Considered Critically and Practically" - is dedicated to "H. Aspinwall Howe, LL.D., to Thomas Workman, M.P., and to the Members of the Montreal Chess Club, This Sketch of the Chess Openings is Dedicated - in vivid recollection and most grateful appreciation of the courtesy and unbounded liberality extended to him on the occasion of his visit to Montreal, in the winter of 1876-7. By their obliged servant and warm chess admirer - H.E. Bird".
The book can be viewed at: http://books.google.ca/books?id=nDNA...ess%22&f=false
"The $100 bequeathed to the Montreal Chess Club by the late Thomas Workman [1813-1889 - see link below] has been invested in a memorial trophy - a solid silver shield, 18 inches high by 12 inches wide with maple leaves, etc. The centre is left blank for the winners' names. On top is engraved "Montreal Chess Club - Thomas Workman Memorial Trophy". Below are engraved the officers of the Club for the current year, and on the sides, in an embossed wreath, the date of formation of the club (1844), and the present year (1890). The winner's name each year will be engraved on the memorial, but it will always remain the property of the Club".
http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.0...p?&id_nbr=5911
A book written by H.E. Bird in 1880 - "The Chess Openings with Diagrams of Notable Positions and Problems Considered Critically and Practically" - is dedicated to "H. Aspinwall Howe, LL.D., to Thomas Workman, M.P., and to the Members of the Montreal Chess Club, This Sketch of the Chess Openings is Dedicated - in vivid recollection and most grateful appreciation of the courtesy and unbounded liberality extended to him on the occasion of his visit to Montreal, in the winter of 1876-7. By their obliged servant and warm chess admirer - H.E. Bird".
The book can be viewed at: http://books.google.ca/books?id=nDNA...ess%22&f=false
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