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  • Editorial

    Klondikers Challenge for the Stanley Cup

    The following article is an editorial written by The Canadian Encyclopedia staff. Editorials are not usually updated. ​With our national game now a multi-billion-dollar professional sport, it is perhaps comforting to look back to simpler times when hockey was closer to community, and was played for love and glory by amateurs. In the early days of Stanley Cup competition, any Canadian team with some success at the senior level could challenge the current champs. In 1905 one of the strangest challenges came from Dawson City, Yukon.

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  • Macleans

    Laumann Fails Drug Test

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on April 3, 1995. Partner content is not updated. She did what just about everybody else would have done: she had a cold, so she took a pill. But Silken Laumann is not everybody else. The 30-year-old rower is one of Canada's best-loved amateur athletes, an Olympic medallist and a top contender at the Summer Games in Atlanta next year.

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  • Article

    Memorial Cup

    Memorial Cup, trophy presented for the Canadian championships of major junior hockey teams in national competition. It was presented in March 1919 in memory of Canadian hockey players who had died in WWI. The trophy sparked interest in junior hockey across Canada.

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  • Table

    Canada National Curling Champions Men (Brier)

    Prior to 1980 (when playoff format was introduced), the round robin champion won the Brier. Scores for tie-breaking final games are shown for this period (1927 to 1979). Due to the Second World War, there was no Brier from 1943 to 1945. Year Host Champion Team Team Members Record Gold Medal Game 1927 Toronto, ON Nova Scotia Murray MacNeill Al MacInnes Cliff Torey Jim Donahoe 6–1 N/A 1928 Toronto, ON Manitoba Gordon Hudson Sam Penwarden...

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    Canada National Curling Champions Women (Scotties Tournament of Hearts)

    Year Host Champion Team Team Members Record Gold Medal Game Note: Prior to 1979 (when playoff format was introduced), the round robin leader won the championship. Scores for tie-breaking final games are shown for this period. 1961 Ottawa, ON Saskatchewan Joyce McKee Sylvia Fedoruk Barbara MacNevin Rosa McFee 9–0 N/A 1962 Regina, SK British Columbia Ina Hansen Ada Callas Isabel Leith May Shaw 9–0 N/A 1963 Saint John, NB New Brunswick Mabel DeWare Harriet Stratton...

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  • Article

    North American Indigenous Games

    The North American Indigenous Games (NAIG) — in French Jeux Autochtones de l’Amerique du Nord (JAAN) — are both a multisport event and a cultural celebration involving young athletes from across the continent. The 10th games were held in Nova Scotia. Nova Scotia is part of Mi’kma’ki, the traditional and ancestral territory of the Mi’kmaq people. They took place at 21 venues in Halifax, Dartmouth and the Millbrook First Nation (see First Nations in Nova Scotia) from 15 to 23 July 2023. More than 5,000 athletes, coaches and team staff from over 755 Indigenous Nations (see Indigenous Peoples in Canada) attended, supported by 3,000 volunteers.

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  • Macleans

    Olympic Hockey Meltdown

    Instead, the glory went to players like Pavel Bure, the Russian rocketeer with a sweet scoring touch, and Dominik Hasek, the Czech goaltender built like a slab of the old Berlin Wall - with Cold War-era impenetrability.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on March 2, 1998

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  • Article

    Music at the Olympics

    Organized athletic contests originally held in ancient Greece to celebrate an Olympiad (a period of four years), and revived in Athens in 1896. The running of the modern Olympics is controlled by the International Olympics Committee (IOC).

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  • Macleans

    Pan Am Games Wrap Up

    From the outset, hosting the 1999 PAN-AMERICAN GAMES was seen by many Winnipeggers as a chance to put their city squarely in the international spotlight.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on August 16, 1999

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  • Article

    Pan American Games

    ​The Pan American (Pan Am) Games are a multi-sport event for the nations of the Western Hemisphere, held every four years. They are conducted in a similar manner to the Olympic Summer Games and held one year prior to them.

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  • Article

    Canada at the Paralympic Games

    The Paralympic Games are an international competition for elite athletes with a disability. The name comes from "para," as in "parallel" or "equal." Like the Olympics, the Paralympic Games take place every two years, alternating between summer and winter sports. The country hosting the Olympic Games also hosts the Paralympics. Canada has participated in the Paralympic Games since 1968.

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  • Article

    Parapan American Games

    The Parapan American Games are a multi-sport event for para-athletes (athletes with disabilities) from 28 countries in the Americas and the Caribbean.

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  • Article

    Queen's Plate

    Politicians lobbied to hold the race in their constituencies in the early years. It was raced in Ontario at Toronto, Guelph, St Catharines, Whitby, Kingston, Barrie, Woodstock, Picton, London, Hamilton and Ottawa before it settled permanently, with the Queen's approval, in Toronto in 1883.

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  • Article

    Royal St John's Regatta

    The Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, visited in 1860 and offered £100 to the winner. Times improved in the late 19th century, and in 1901 a crew from Outer Cove set a record time, 9:13.75, that was not broken until 1981 (the crew has been elected to the CANADA SPORTS HALL OF FAME).

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  • Article

    Scotties Tournament of Hearts

    The Tournament of Hearts is the annual Canadian women's curling championship. Created in 1981 in St. John's, NL, it is sponsored by Kruger Products, and named after a brand of facial tissue, Scotties.

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