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Date SPORTS OVERTIME(Rules/playing areas, number of players, game length,equipment, venues and payments for athletes were not thesame in the past. These changed over time.)

COMMUNICATION(GTR, Grand Trunk Railway now CNR,

Canadian National Railway; CPR,Canadian Pacific Railway)

1807 Montreal Curling Club (oldest sporting club in NA)

1820 Kingston Curling Club 1811 Postal service to Upper Canada is such

that "a courier between Montral and Kingston,U.C., is dispatched once a fortnight throughoutthe year"The mails run between Qubec and Montralevery weekday except Sunday and Friday;between Qubec and Halifax once a fortnight;between Qubec and Upper Canada twice aweek

1824 Halifax Curling Club

1825 Worlds first public railway (England)

Darlington to Stockton

1827 Toronto Cricket Club 1828 First Railroad in USA 1829 Pictou Curling Club 1830 Liverpool to Manchester RR powered by

Stephensons Rocket 1835 First intercity sports competition: Quebec City vs

Montreal (Curling). Both teams sleighed to ThreeRivers, took 2 days each way.

1831 Mail service between Montral andNiagara, known as the Grand Route, increasesto five times a week,

1836 Toronto Curling ClubFirst RR in Canada: St. Johns (St. Jean) onRichelieu R. to Laprairie on St. Lawrence R.opposite Montreal


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1839 First RR in Maritimes: Albion Mines RR, NovaScotia1840 In England, the worlds first government-stamped envelope and letter sheet areintroduced.

1842 Montreal Olympic Club (Games in 1844) 1841 steamboat mail service between Montral

and Qubec 1843 St. Johns Nfld Curling Club, Mtl Snowshoe Club, Mtl Cricket Club

1844 Cricket: Canada vs USA

1845 First published rules for Baseball (New York) 1849 Railway Guarantee Act

f An Act for Enabling Colonial Legislatures toEstablish Inland Posts (Gt. Brit. 12 & 13 Vic.,c.66). The legislation provides, among other things, a reduction in postage charges on allletters passing between places within theprovinces or within British North America to auniform rate of three pence per one-half ounce(14 grams). All charges for some newspapersare removed entirely.

1850 Baseball teams formed in Hamilton, St. Thomas,Guelph Canada West (Ontario)

1851 The first Canadian stamp, the ThreePenny Beaver, is designed by Sir SandfordFleming. It is one of the worlds earliest

examples of a pictorial stamp, as opposed tothe customary portrait of the reigning monarch 1853 First regular steamboat service to Britain from

Canada

1854 Great Western RR Niagara Falls to Windsor,Canada West (Ontario)


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the first mail cars aboard trains

1855 First recorded British army Rugby game (duringCrimean War), First Montreal Annual CaledonianGames (Track and Field, valuable prizes)

Postage rates on newspapers are abolishedbut are reinstated in 1859.

1856 Start of large inter-club Bonspiels (Curlingtournaments)

GTR opens Toronto. to Montreal, about 12 hourseach way; Sarnia to Toronto opensdelivery of mail between Qubec and Windsor is reduced to 49 hours from 10 days in 1853.

1857 Baseball rules standardized (New York, 16 Clubsfollow Knickerbocker Club of NY Rules)

1858 Burlington International Curling (32 Can & USAteams)

1859 First Toronto vs Montreal sports competitions(Curling, Lacrosse ), First English Cricket team toursCanada

In April, the principle of prepayment is appliedby the British Post Office to correspondencebetween the United Kingdom and the colonies,including the Province of Canada.Parcel post service is introducedStreet boxes for the day and night reception of letters are first introduced in Toronto.

1860 W.G. Beers, codifies Lacrosse Rules in Montreal

To encourage the habit of paying for postagebefore sending a letter, the Province of Canadaintroduces pre-stamped envelope

St. Lawrence R. bridged; GTR from Sarnia toPortland, Maine . Horse-drawn streetcars in Canadafrom 1860s


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1861 Football (mixture of rugby & soccer) firstplayed at University of Toronto

1863 Rugby & Soccer officially separate as sports inLondon, England.

1864 University of Toronto devises Rugby Rules, FirstOxford vs Cambridge Track Meet 1865 British Army Rugby Team plays a Montreal team, Canada vs USA Curling (Canada won)

Steamboats carry majority of immigrants to Canada

18661867 Canadian National Lacrosse Foundation (W.G.

Beers, Montreal) Inter-Colonial RR to Maritimes in the Articles of Confederation

1868 Montreal Football Club (now Westmount RugbyClub) plays British soldiers at rugby

1869 Hamilton Football Club (now Canadian Football) Rotary Snow Plough (invented by J.W. Eliot) startsto replace bulldozer plough.

1870 Federation of Caledonian Games (Donald Dinnie,World Champion Athlete from Scotland toursGames, vast crowds in Toronto, Mtl, NY)

1871 Englands Rugby Football Union (21 Clubsstandardize rules), First international Rugby game(Scotland vs England)

1872 Nova Scotia is connected to Canada byrailway, thus providing continuous railway mailcommunication from Halifax to Ontario

1873 Royal Montreal Golf Club, oldest in NA.

1874 Start of American and Canadian Football (NFL &CFL) McGill plays Harvard University using

McGills Rugby rules (Harvard returns to the

Home mail delivery begins in 1874 in Montral.


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USA to play Rugby with oval ball against other Ivy League teams)

1875Quebec Golf Club founded; First organized Hockeygame, McGill University at Victoria Ice Rink

1876 Winnipeg Curling Club , Westmount Rugby Club(oldest Rugby Club in NA) T oronto Golf Club ,Can. Baseball Assoc. (Toronto), Canadians bringLacrosse to England (Queen Victoria approves)

Inter-Colonial Line opens linking Maritimes &Central Canada(Sandford Fleming, engineer)

1877 US Baseball Pennant won by London, OntarioTecumseh team , James Creighton of McGillUniversity codifies Ice Hockey, McGill U. FirstHockey team in the world

1878 Canadas earliest recorded tennis tournament atMontreal Lacrosse Club; Mtl Bicycle Club; NedHanlan was paid $3,700 by RR to row; Mtl Amateur Athletic Association (MAA) world model for sportsclubs

1880 Scotland & Ireland establish Rugby Unions , Quebec


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City vs Montreal (Golf) 18811882 On June 1, newspapers and periodicals printed

and published in Canada are granted freetransmission by post within the Dominion.

1883 World Championship Lacrosse game inMontreal, Field Hockey Codified (England) 1884 Canadian Rugby Union formed (Toronto, Montreal,Hamilton decide to use Englands Rugby-FootballUnion Rules of 1871)

The Eaton Company, established at Toronto in1869, issues its first mail-order catalogue

1885 Montreal City Hockey League. Oldest Hockeyrivalry Oxford vs Cambridge Ice Hockey game(Canadians at Oxford/Cambridge Universities playin Switzerland, take the game to Europe)

September: Jumbo The Elephant killed on GTR @St. Thomas, Ontario; Second Riel Rebellion (troopstravel by train to put it down; 7 th Nov. Last SpikeCPR links Vancouver with Central Canada,)

1886 Amateur Hockey Association of Canada GTR amalgamates with Great Western RR The first transcontinental train leaves Montralon 28 June and arrives at Port Moody, BritishColumbia, on 4 July. With the already existingconnections between Montral and Halifax, anall-Canadian mail service is established.Beginning 1 August, parcel post beginsoperating between Canada and the UnitedKingdom for parcels not exceeding 1.3 kg(three pounds) in weight

1888Worlds First Soccer League, BirminghamEngland ( 12 Clubs)F irst Golf Club in USA, Louis Rubenstein (Mtl)wins US Figure Skating

1889 British Columbia Rugby Union 1890 Louis Rubenstein (Mtl) wins World Figure Skating

Championship in MoscowElectric streetcars create downtown cities(cheaper because no horses to feed) Vast crowdscreated for sports events, carried by steam trainsthen electric streetcars


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1893 First Stanley Cup for Hockey Champions of Canada

(awarded by the Governor-General) to MontrealAmateur Athletic Club.

1894 Association Athltique Amateur (first francophoneathletic club in Mtl)

1896 First Modern Olympics, Athens Greece 1898 The first Christmas stamp in the world isissued by Canada. Also known as the "mapstamp," it is the first multi-coloured stampissued by Canada.

1900 Nets for Hockey goals; Second Olympic Games inParis, France . 1899 Funds in the amount of $5000 are votedby Parliament for the purchase of twoautomobiles to be used by the Post Office inToronto.

The cars were supposed to be used to transfer bulky loads of mail between Union Station andTerminal A, the citys largest sorting facility atthe time. They were also to be used to helpempty the street letter boxes. In fact, the carswere never purchased. Instead, the Post Officebought six quadricylesa kind of motorizedbicyclethe following year.

1904International Professional Hockey League (PHL);Fderation Internationale de FootballAssociation (FIFA); F irst Canadian Open Golf Club Championship; T hird Olympic Games in St,

Louis, USA 1905 Hockey team from Dawson City travels by dogsled,

steamboat & RR to compete in Stanley Cup inOttawa

1908 Fourth Olympic Games in London England 1910 National Hockey Association (Montreal)


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1912 Women compete in Olympic Games for first time,Stockholm Sweden

1913 International Football Association (4representatives from FIFA and one each fromScotland, England, Ireland and Wales)

Grand Trunk Pacific crosses the Continent inCanada

1914 RR plays major role in organizing army enlistment; Winnie The Pooh bought by a soldier fromWinnipeg @ GTR halt at White River, Ontario;

Canadian RR Corps creates and operates all linesfor British Forces in France.

1917 National Hockey League (NHL) 19181919 GTR bankrupt, becomes Canadian National

Railways( CNR) 1920 Ice Hockey in Olympics for first time (Gold Medal,

Canada) held in Antwerp, Belgium 1924 NHL expands into United States; Olympic Games in

Paris, France

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