Iwant to know what The habs mean in Montreal Canadiens.

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Question by Bruiser
Submitted on 3/22/2004
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Iwant to know what The habs mean in Montreal Canadiens.

Answer by SomeOneFromMontreal
Submitted on 3/24/2004
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Long long time ago, the Montreal's hockey club was named "Les Habitants de Montreal". That is in French obviously. The name was changed along the road for "Les Canadiens de Montreal". So the term "habs" is a short version of the "Habitants. Go see http://www.home.earthlink.net/~emjay59/Montreal.htm Cheers!

Answer by jaysix
Submitted on 3/24/2004
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The canadiens were never named habitants !? back in the day canadiens meant french-canadian. English people didn't call themselves canadians. The word habitant means "people of the land". so the hockey club name was canadien habitant "meaning people of the canadian land"

Answer by Leafs fan
Submitted on 4/16/2004
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here's the truth guys... i forget who the manager of chicago was at the time, but the montreal canadiens were playing the black hawks in the playoffs (chicago would later change their name to blackhawks without a space)... as an insault to les canadiens players he called them habitants people of the land... farmers... the name stuck... hence the nick name habs... amazing that a leafs fan knew that eh????

Answer by Jackie
Submitted on 4/20/2004
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Close, Leafs fan. Really close. It was Tex Rickard, the owner of Madison Square Gardens, in 1924. The Rangers, not the 'Hawks. ;) The correct answer is here: http://nhl.com/nhlhq/faq/trivia.html

Answer by Amazing
Submitted on 8/26/2004
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Interesting. I never realized the logo (the H inside the C) stood for "Club de Hockey Canadien"! I would have bet a million dollars that the "H" stood for Habs or Les Habitants and that the "C" stood for "Canadiens". Amazing. I'm glad you pointed me to that website before hockey season started back up and I go out and have one drink too many and bet that million dollars! I would be out a million bucks by now! Ooooh, but wait, now that I know, I just figured out a way to make some pretty good money! Awesome! Thanks!

Answer by Big Puss
Submitted on 3/18/2005
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Hey Guys, I actually read in a book that the "CH" that the habs wear on their jerseys meant "Cobalt Haileybury". Cobalt Silver Kings and Haileybury Comets 1910 - 1916 were both in the NHA which then became the NHL in 1917. Anyone else hear of anything similar???

Answer by 4343
Submitted on 9/7/2005
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Answer by philip
Submitted on 11/15/2005
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The canadiens were never named habitants !? back in the day canadiens meant french-canadian. English people didn't call themselves canadians. The word habitant means "people of the land". so the hockey club name was canadien habitant "meaning people of the canadian land"

Answer by lhlhjk
Submitted on 2/2/2006
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Answer by mr.montr�al
Submitted on 3/23/2006
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ok. this is the REAL deal. HABS stands to habitant. a french name meaning of the land. (ie: farmers.) the logo (H inside a C) stands for Club de hockey.

Answer by hab boy
Submitted on 4/19/2006
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jackie is right in a point but not in a other. not just because they called them habitant that means they will take it. the word circulated between peaple and peaple thought that the teams name was montreal habs. closse jackie but not closse enought.

Answer by kelsey
Submitted on 4/30/2006
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puh a toronto fan,hah GO MONTREAL!!!!!!!!!!!aka habs,and i`m going with the first answer on this one

Answer by Giggletit
Submitted on 5/10/2006
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I think your all wrong because habitants were french canadian farmers. They started a hockey team and called themselves Les Habitants de Montreal. And the so habs is short for habitant a french farmer.

Answer by canadien
Submitted on 11/28/2006
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Well the term "habs" as a frenchie quebecer guy I am comes from adversary english teams they faced up at the begining of centuary.Because Montreal's team were only composed of french players, the rest of english canadians called them "HABS" which is an abreviation of french word "HABITANTS" that means farmers or in my own terms "the farmers of canada as who want be a part of this country".In a cheer call, Montreal's supporters came to call em' habs as a replica to english canadian's teams own insult.After it,they changed their name for canadiens as a signification that they were as canadians as the rest of country but proud to be french! www.rds.ca

Answer by Vince Marino
Submitted on 4/13/2007
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The truth is, it doesn't matter. THE MONTREAL CANADIENS are the most storied franchise in hockey history, what ever the explanation for the name, This fact is true, Iam and always will be a HABS fan, Thankyou Montreal for giving us fans a very exciting season...

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Answer by Bruinsfan
Submitted on 11/29/2006
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it doesnt matter, they're freakin canadian i'm just kidding i love your country

Answer by Rob Pucci
Submitted on 2/21/2007
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Here is a link to the best explanation of the term "Les Habitants" and the story of who stated the "Habs" nickname: http://proicehockey.about.com/od/history/f/canadiens_habs.htm

Answer by jasonw
Submitted on 3/28/2007
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it was actually tex rickard in 1923, and the H DOES NOT mean habitants, the logo stands for club de hockey canadien

Answer by oppoo
Submitted on 4/1/2007
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montreal best for life