Albertine Lapensée

Albertine Lapensée (August 10, 1898 – January 7, 1963) was a Canadian ice hockey player, often thought to be Canada's first women's hockey "superstar". She played for the Cornwall Victorias, Cornwall Nationals, Cornwall All-Stars, and Hull Vestas in 1916 and Cornwall Ladies Hockey Club in 1917, when women's hockey enjoyed some prominence, as most of the healthy men were taking part in the First World War.

Lapensée was reputed to have scored over 150 goals and led her teams to be unbeaten throughout 1916 and 1917, when records indicate that they won 45 of their 46 games. (In his book "The Miracle Maid" the author records the historic goal count as 123 in only 28 games in which her teams recorded a 27–0–1 record) Research showed that Albertine received and did demand a share of the profits from the games. Lapensée disappeared from the sport in 1917, still a teenager. There were a number of rumours: that she had died in the 1918 flu pandemic, that she had travelled to New York to undergo a sex-change, or that she had always been a draft dodging man, though none provided any credible evidence. A 1940 profile of her father refuted all those claims, detailing her as living as a woman in New York.