Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
(Rules/playing areas, number of players, game length, (GTR, Grand Trunk Railway now CNR,
equipment, venues and payments for athletes were not the Canadian National Railway; CPR,
same in the past. These changed over time.) Canadian Pacific Railway)
185 Start of large inter-club Bonspiels (Curling GTR opens Toronto. to Montreal, about 12 hours
6 tournaments) each way; Sarnia to Toronto opens
delivery of mail between Québec and Windsor
is reduced to 49 hours from 10½ days in 1853.
185 Baseball rules standardized (New York, 16 Clubs
7 follow Knickerbocker Club of NY Rules)
185 Burlington International Curling (32 Can & USA
8 teams)
185 First Toronto vs Montreal sports’ competitions In April, the principle of prepayment is applied
9 (Curling, Lacrosse), First English Cricket team tours by the British Post Office to correspondence
Canada between the United Kingdom and the colonies,
including the Province of Canada.
Parcel post service is introduced
Street boxes for the day and night reception of
letters are first introduced in Toronto.
186 Hamilton Football Club (now Canadian Football) Rotary Snow Plough (invented by J.W. Eliot) starts
9 to replace bulldozer plough.
187 Federation of Caledonian Games (Donald Dinnie,
0 World Champion Athlete from Scotland tours
Games, vast crowds in Toronto, Mtl, NY)
187 England’s Rugby Football Union (21 Clubs 1872 Nova Scotia is connected to Canada by
standardize rules), First international Rugby game railway, thus providing continuous railway mail
1 (Scotland vs England) communication from Halifax to Ontario
187 Royal Montreal Golf Club, oldest in NA.
3
Home mail delivery begins in 1874 in Montréal.
187 Start of American and Canadian Football (NFL &
CFL) McGill plays Harvard University using
4 McGill’s “Rugby” rules (Harvard returns to the
USA to play “Rugby” with oval ball against other
Ivy League teams)
187 Winnipeg Curling Club, Westmount Rugby Club Inter-Colonial Line opens linking Maritimes &
6 (oldest Rugby Club in NA) Toronto Golf Club, Central Canada
Can. Baseball Assoc. (Toronto), Canadians bring (Sandford Fleming, engineer)
Lacrosse to England (Queen Victoria approves)
187 US Baseball Pennant won by London, Ontario
7 Tecumseh team, James Creighton of McGill
University codifies Ice Hockey, McGill U. First
Hockey team in the world
187 Canada’s earliest recorded tennis tournament at
8 Montreal Lacrosse Club; Mtl Bicycle Club; Ned
Hanlan was paid $3,700 by RR to row; Mtl Amateur
Athletic Association (MAA) world model for sports
clubs
188 Montreal City Hockey League. Oldest Hockey September: Jumbo The Elephant killed on GTR @
5 rivalry Oxford vs Cambridge Ice Hockey game St. Thomas, Ontario; Second Riel Rebellion (troops
(Canadians at Oxford/Cambridge Universities play travel by train to put it down; 7th Nov. “Last Spike”
in Switzerland, take the game to Europe) CPR links Vancouver with Central Canada,)
188 Amateur Hockey Association of Canada GTR amalgamates with Great Western RR
6 The first transcontinental train leaves Montréal
on 28 June and arrives at Port Moody, British
Columbia, on 4 July. With the already existing
connections between Montréal and Halifax, an
all-Canadian mail service is established.
Beginning 1 August, parcel post begins
operating between Canada and the United
Kingdom for parcels not exceeding 1.3 kg
(three pounds) in weight
188 World’s First Soccer League, Birmingham
8 England (12 Clubs)
First Golf Club in USA, Louis Rubenstein (Mtl)
wins US Figure Skating
188 British Columbia Rugby Union
9
189 Louis Rubenstein (Mtl) wins World Figure Skating Electric streetcars create “downtown” cities
0 Championship in Moscow (cheaper because no horses to feed) Vast crowds
created for sports events, carried by steam trains
then electric streetcars