Vintage Canada Cycle and Motor Company, CCM, Ice Skates, Hockey, Figure Skating

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Hi, thanks for checking out this piece of history! These vintage ice skates where made by CCM (Canadian Cycle and Motor).
I am an artist and I do a lot of work with found materials and antiques. I came across these while out hunting for projects and decided to snatch them up and find a new home for them.
They seem to be in quite good condition for their age. As best I can tell from researching theses online, they where made in Canada in the 1960s. They are labeled as size 11 1/3. I’m not entirely sure what that sizing metric is.
What follows is the interesting history of CCM which I found on Wikipedia. Thanks for looking and feel free to message me,
Jake
CCM was founded in 1899 after the collapse of the bicycle market. Established "when the operations of four major Canadian bicycle manufacturers amalgamated: H. A. Lozier, Massey-Harris, Goold, and Welland Vale Manufacturing."[2] CCM produced bicycles for many years in the area of Weston, Toronto, Ontario. They also briefly produced the Russell automobile.
By 1905, with saturation in the bicycle market, CCM began producing hockey skates using scrap steel that was left over at the plant from the manufacture of bicycles and automobiles,[3] and subsequently began manufacturing other hockey gear.
Former logo, replaced by the current one in 2007, although this one is still occasionally used on throwback merchandise.
In 1937, CCM acquired the Tackaberry brand made by a Manitoban named George Tackaberry and "Tacks" remained the company's signature skate until late 2006, when the Tacks line was replaced with the "Vector" line, then the "U+" line, and now the "RBZ" line. The "Tacks" line was later reintroduced in 2014.
The original CCM went bankrupt in 1983. All of the assets of the Company were purchased by Procycle Group Inc. of Quebec who retained the bicycle division and sold off the hockey division to Montreal businessman David Zunenshine who owned GC Knitting, a manufacturer of hockey jerseys. The company subsequently used the CCM brand when producing hockey equipment.[4]
The company entered the toy industry in 1988 through the acquisition of Coleco Industries and in 1990 when they acquired another financially troubled company, Buddy L Corp., a 70-year-old manufacturer of steel and plastic toy cars and trucks based in the United States.[4]
In 1991, the company incorporated and took the name SLM International Inc.[4]
SLM purchased Kevin Sports Toys International Inc. (the maker of the Wayne Gretzky NHL hockey game), Norca Industries Inc. (a plastic toy manufacturer of such products as swimming pools, sleds, and sandboxes), and Innova-Dex Sports Inc. of Montreal (a bicycle helmet manufacturer).[4]
SLM filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, in 1995, selling off Buddy L and the SLM Fitness equipment business.[4] The company emerged from bankruptcy protection in 1997 and reorganized.[4]
The company acquired Montreal-based Sports Holdings, Inc, in 1998, and became the world's top producer of hockey merchandise[4] adding the brands Koho, Titan, Jofa, Canadien and Heaton. Titan and Canadien were well-known brands of wooden hockey sticks in the 1980s and 1990s, with Wayne Gretzky having used the Titan 2020 while playing with the Edmonton Oilers. Heaton was known for its goalie equipment, which was worn for years by Martin Brodeur.
In 1999, SLM was renamed The Hockey Company.[4]
In June 2004, The Hockey Company was bought by Reebok.[5] All brands other than the CCM brand were retired and Reebok introduced its own RBK Hockey gear, later to be rebranded as Reebok Hockey.[6] Reebok in turn was acquired by Adidas in 2005.
In the Fall of 2013, The Hockey Company created a new goaltending equipment line under the CCM brand name.[7]
Beginning in 2015, The Hockey Company began phasing out the Reebok name from their hockey equipment lines, by creating equivalent or similar product lines under the CCM name. CCM is now the only brand name used by the company on its hockey equipment.[8]
In 2017, Adidas sold CCM to a Canadian private equity firm, Birch Hill Equity Partners, for around 0 million