The Vosburgh Rink was located in Beamsville, Ontario from the 1880's to the 1900's and home to the Beamsville Stars of the Southern Ontario Hockey Association from 1897-1899.
In 1898, hockey players in the town of Beamsville were the first to make use of a hockey net.
William D. Fairbrother, the inventor of the hockey net, lived in Beamsville. During the 1880s, he played for Beamsville, Ontario’s Men’s Hockey Team.
Prior to his invention they were using Hockey Goal Cages based out of Chicago who brought them up to Southern Ontario in
1895 when playing a circuit there.
Fairbrother, who played as a goaltender, combined metal frames made by William Vosburgh, a blacksmith, and strung up a fisherman’s (Aaron Grubb) net between two posts.This idea was soon adopted by the Association and has been a part of hockey history since. His moment of invention changed the course of the sport.