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Sports in Canada consist of a wide variety of games. The roots of organized sports in Canada date back to the 1770s. [1] Canada's official national sports are ice hockey and lacrosse. [2] Other major professional games include curling, basketball, baseball, soccer, and football. [3]
Women's sport pioneer and advocate for women's sports organizations across Canada in the 1920s and 30s [169] 1958: George "Mooney" Gibson: Baseball: Athlete: 1909 World Series champion with the Pittsburgh Pirates; Voted Canada's Baseball player of the Half Century in 1950 [170] 2015: Nicolas Gill: Judo: Athlete: 2-time Olympic medallist (1992 ...
A Toronto Blue Jays baseball game at Rogers Centre in Toronto.. Currently, the Toronto Blue Jays are Canada's only Major League Baseball team, founded in 1977. The Montreal Expos (Canada's first Major League Baseball team) played in Montreal from 1969 until 2004 when they moved to Washington, D.C. and became the Washington Nationals.
Canada has professional sports teams in eight sports across twenty-one leagues. Canadian teams compete in top-level American and Canadian-based leagues, including three of the four major professional sports leagues. Canada also has minor league teams competing in American and Canadian-based basketball, hockey, soccer, and baseball leagues.
Women's national sports teams of Canada (5 C, 19 P) * Canada at multi-sport events (10 C, 2 P) + Canadian national team sportspeople (14 C, 1 P) A.
Major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada; Major professional sports teams in the United States and Canada; List of U.S. and Canadian cities by number of major professional sports teams; Prominent women's sports leagues in the United States and Canada; List of top level minor league sports teams in the United States by city
The following is a list of sports stadiums in Canada. By capacity Canada ... National Tennis Centre (Canada) - Toronto; Rugby union. BMO Field - Toronto, Ontario;
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