Canada has different sports and other activities you can and can do. But this time, I want to share some of the sports background and history of each sport in Canada; maybe you are not an expert in sports people, and perhaps you’re a sports person, but you don’t know too much about some history about that sport you watch all the time, or you play all the time. Also, I will share the exciting things in each sport in Canada, so maybe you will feel surprised or learn some of the items in this article.
First, I want to talk about what is the most popular sport in Canada. In the top 10: the first one will be Ice Hockey. In Canada, Ice hockey has six teams currently playing in the NHL: Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa and Winnipeg. The second sport is Lacrosse, which was declared a national game of Canada in1859 and a summer sport in1994. It is played by thousands of people across Canada. Lacrosse was governed by the Canadian Lacrosse Association, formed in 1925. And the third was soccer. Soccer has gained popularity in Canada over many years; although soccer played in Canada was played under various rules, the central concept of soccer was there. The first soccer game occurred in Toronto in October 1876 between two local clubs. The Canadian Women’s soccer team has succeeded numerous times internationally. The team qualified for the 2012 London Summer Olympics and performed remarkably well throughout the tournament. The fourth sport is Baseball. This sport has been played in Canada since the beginning and is one of the most popular sports in the country.
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The oldest baseball park in the world is still in operation in Labatt Park in Ontario. The country has only one Major League, the Toronto Blue Jays. The number five sport is Cricket. Cricket is not sanctioned to participate in test matches; the national team is allowed to join in One-day international Matches. The competitive women’s cricket team and the U-19 have participated in three U-19 World Cup events. The number eight sport is Basketball. This sport is famous in the U.S., but the root of Basketball is firmly embedded in Canada. The modern basketball game was founded by a Canadian, James Naismith, in 1891 while working as a physical education instructor in the U.S. Several players who took part in the first game came from Canada. The number nine sport is Curlin. Curling is a popular sport in Canada, especially in the Prairie Provinces, with several popular teams based in Alberta and Manitoba. Curling in Canada was always associated with the military and was brought from Scotland. The last sport is Golf. Golf was first played in Scotland in the last half of the 15th century. When the native Scots emigrated to Canada, they took the tennis game with them, better known as the “Royal and Ancient Game.” The first Canadian golf club was founded in November 1873 and was named “Montreal Golf Club.” These ten sport is the most they will play in Canada all the time, and also, people like to watch the game, and sometime they will start the game on weekdays and weekend too. Most people want to watch all the games all-time in the time on T.V. and Live, but some people are experts on the one sport they care about, and they play all the time with a team or training by some people for perfectional in the game they like to watch and play.
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In this part, I want to introduce ten famous sports and a list of the history and background of each sport in the ten famous and popular list in Canada. The first one will be hockey. Ice Hockey is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hockey sticks to control, advance, and shoot a closed. Vulcanized rubber disc called a “puck” into the other team’s goal. Each goal is worth one point. The modem sport of ice hockey was developed in Canada, most notably in Montreal, where the first indoor game was played on March 3, 1875. Some characteristics of that game, such as the length of the ice rink and the use of a puck, have been retained to this day. It cuts across cultural, geographic, and socio-economic lines so that we are all Canadians when we play. We are all Canadians.
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The second sport is Lacrosse. First Nations played Lacrosse in Canada before the arrival of European colonists. The first documented description of the game was in 1637. The game was called Baggataway and Tewaarathon, played by two teams with 100 to 1,000 men each on a field that stretched from about 500m long.
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The third sport is called soccer. Soccer is the most popular sport in other countries, such as Brazil, Germany, Italy, Argentina, France, and Uruguay. In these countries, people like to watch and play soccer with other countries. From England, the idea of football spread to Europe and across the Atlantic. Two schoolteachers, August Hermann and Konrad Koch, introduced the game to Germany circa 1874. Immigrants brought soccer to the United States. The first football association was formed in England in 1863. Rules were established – but continued to change – and the size and weight of the match-ball standardized. Crucially, carrying the ball with the hands was outlawed: association football (soccer) and Rugby became separate entities. More than 240 million people worldwide play soccer regularly, according to the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). The game has evolved from the sport of kicking a rudimentary animal-hide ball around into the World Cup sport it is today.
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The fourth is Baseball. A baseball game is one of the four famous sports people like to watch and play in North America and Canada. The game evolved from older bat-and-ball games in England by the mid-18th century. By the late 19th century, Baseball was widely recognized as the national sport of the United States. And they are also popular in North America and parts of Central and South America, the Caribbean, and East Asia, particularly in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Those places have famous players renowned for the baseball game each year, month and weekly playing. One Major League Baseball team, the Toronto Blue Jays, was founded in 1977. Canada’s first MLB team, the Montreal Expos, formed in 1969 and relocated to Washington, D.C., in 2005.
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The fifth is Cricket, introduced to North America via the English colonies as early as the 17th century, and in the 18th century, it arrived in other parts of the globe. It was introduced to the West Indies by colonists and to India by British East India Company mariners.
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The sixth one is called Tennis. The game’s origins can be traced to a 12th–13th-century French handball game called jeu de paume (“game of the palm”), derived from a complex indoor racket-and-ball game: real Tennis.
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The seven is Rugby. Rugby originated at Rugby School in Warwickshire, England, in 1823 when William Webb Ellis decided to pick up a ball and go with it during a football game. Although there is very little evidence to support this theory, the rugby World Cup Trophy is now named after William Webb Ellis.
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The eighth is Basketball. Basketball began in 1891; James Naismith invented it as a less injury-prone sport than football. He was a 31-year-old graduate student who created the sport, keeping players indoors during the winter.
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The nine sport is Curling. The first recognized curling clubs were formed in Scotland. During the 19th century, the game was exported wherever Scots settled around the world in cold climates, most notably in Canada, the United States, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway and New Zealand.
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The last sport is Golf. The first ever 18-hole course was constructed at St Andrew’s in 1764, establishing the now-recognized standard for the game. King William IV honoured the club with the title’ Royal & Ancient’ in 1834. With that recognition and its good course, the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews was established as the world’s premier golf club.
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These are all the ten most popular sports in Canada I will show you, and which one is your famous sport and which sport are you exper for those sports. I like the baseball one even though I am not a baseball expert, but baseball game has so much fun to do it.