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The new knowledge required to work with these unfamiliar ingredients and to survive in Canada’s harsh environment would have …View 4 Article with Article Header 4

Craig Campbell and Philip Pritchard, Keepers of the Cup

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 …View Ontario and the Stanley Cup

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.

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 …View A night out at the Gardens

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 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 …View Sport matters: The value of sport to society

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

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, …View Resources: Ontario's sport heritage
Fergie Jenkins (Photo courtesy of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame)

Sport heritage by the numbers

By the record book

3.3 seconds: Combined run advantage that secured Anne Heggtveit’s …View Sport heritage by the numbers

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

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 …View Aboriginal athletes: Competing for recognition

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

Disability in sport

In August 2015, 12 days after the Pan American Games have concluded, the Golden Horseshoe will host the Parapan American Games. …View Disability in sport

Hockey stick used by Cyclone Taylor during his first season as a member of the Ottawa Senators in 1907-08 (Photo courtesy of the Matthew Manor/Hockey Hall of Fame)

Stick handling: The evolution of an icon

It has been written that culture is geography. In the case of Ontario’s reign as king of the wooden hockey stick, the geography …View Stick handling: The evolution of an icon