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Ontario and the Stanley Cup

Hockey is Canada’s national sport, and there is nothing more synonymous with hockey than the Stanley Cup. The tradition, the aura and the respect it...

Maple Leaf Gardens, shown here, was designated a National Historic Site by the Government of Canada in 2007 – the only hockey arena in the country with this designation.

Sport heritage

A night out at the Gardens

Before the opening of the now-iconic Maple Leaf Gardens, the hockey team after whom the building was named played its games in Arena Gardens. Also...

Men’s 4 x 100-metre relay gold medal ceremony, 1996 (Bruny Surin, Glenroy Gilbert, Donovan Bailey and Robert Esmie). Photo courtesy of the Canadian Olympic Committee

Sport heritage

Sport matters: The value of sport to society

No account of Ontario’s heritage would be complete without some understanding of the ways in which Ontarians have engaged in sport. In every time period...

Ada Mackenzie, 1926 (Photo courtesy of the Golf Canada Archives)

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Resources: Ontario's sport heritage

On the shelf Hot Foot: Walter Knox’s Remarkable Life as a Professional in an Amateur World, by David Town, Friesen Press, 2014.Puckstruck: Distracted, Delighted and...

Fergie Jenkins (Photo courtesy of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame)

Sport heritage

Sport heritage by the numbers

By the record book 3.3 seconds: Combined run advantage that secured Anne Heggtveit’s gold medal in alpine skiing at the 1960 Olympics in Squaw Valley...

Tom Longboat with running trophies (April 22, 1907). Photo courtesy of Library and Archives Canada.

Sport heritage

Aboriginal athletes: Competing for recognition

When people are asked to think of a famous Aboriginal athlete in Canada, they likely often think of Tom Longboat, the Onondaga runner from the...

Jeffery Penner of Kitchener, Para-Alpine Skiing, Paralympic Games in Torino, Italy (2006). Photo courtesy of the Canadian Paralympic Committee.

Sport heritage

Disability in sport

In August 2015, 12 days after the Pan American Games have concluded, the Golden Horseshoe will host the Parapan American Games. These parallel Games for...