Date SPORTS OVERTIME COMMUNICATION

(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)

180 Montreal Curling Club (oldest sporting club in NA)

7

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

0 that "a courier between Montréal and Kingston,
U.C., is dispatched once a fortnight throughout
the year"
The mails run between Québec and Montréal
every weekday except Sunday and Friday;
between Québec and Halifax once a fortnight;
between Québec and Upper Canada twice a
week
182 Halifax Curling Club
4
182 World’s first public railway (England)
5
Darlington to Stockton

182 Toronto Cricket Club

7
182 First Railroad in USA
8
182 Pictou Curling Club
9
183 Liverpool to Manchester RR powered by
0 Stephenson’s “Rocket”
183 First intercity sports competition: Quebec City vs 1831Mail service between Montréal and
5 Montreal (Curling). Both teams sleighed to Three Niagara, known as the Grand Route, increases
Rivers, took 2 days each way. to five times a week,
First RR in Canada: St. Johns (St. Jean) on
183 Toronto Curling Club Richelieu R. to Laprairie on St. Lawrence R.
opposite Montreal
6
183 First RR in Maritimes: Albion Mines RR, Nova
9 Scotia
1840 In England, the world’s first government-
stamped envelope and letter sheet are
introduced.
184 Montreal Olympic Club (Games in 1844) 1841steamboat mail service between Montréal
2 and Québec
184 St. John’s Nfld Curling Club, Mtl Snowshoe Club,
3 Mtl Cricket Club
184 Cricket: Canada vs USA
4
184 First published rules for Baseball (New York)
5
184 Railway Guarantee Act
9

f An Act for Enabling Colonial Legislatures to

Establish Inland Posts (Gt. Brit. 12 & 13 Vic.,
c.66). The legislation provides, among other
things, a reduction in postage charges on all
letters passing between places within the
provinces or within British North America to a
uniform rate of three pence per one-half ounce
(14 grams). All charges for some newspapers
are removed entirely.
185 Baseball teams formed in Hamilton, St. Thomas, 1851The first Canadian stamp, the Three
0 Guelph Canada West (Ontario) Penny Beaver, is designed by Sir Sandford
Fleming. It is one of the world’s earliest
examples of a pictorial stamp, as opposed to
the customary portrait of the reigning monarch
185 First regular steamboat service to Britain from
3 Canada
185 Great Western RR Niagara Falls to Windsor,
4 Canada West (Ontario)

the first mail cars aboard trains

185 First recorded British army Rugby game (during Postage rates on newspapers are abolished
5 Crimean War), First Montreal Annual Caledonian but are reinstated in 1859.
Games (Track and Field, valuable prizes)

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.

To encourage the habit of paying for postage

before sending a letter, the Province of Canada
introduces pre-stamped envelope
186 W.G. Beers, codifies Lacrosse Rules in Montreal
0 St. Lawrence R. bridged; GTR from Sarnia to
Portland, Maine. Horse-drawn streetcars in Canada
from 1860’s

186 “Football” (mixture of rugby & soccer) first

1 played at University of Toronto
186 Rugby & Soccer officially separate as sports in
3 London, England.
186 University of Toronto devises “Rugby” Rules, First
4 Oxford vs Cambridge Track Meet
186 British Army “Rugby” Team plays a Montreal team, Steamboats carry majority of immigrants to Canada
5 Canada vs USA Curling (Canada won)
186
6
186 Canadian National Lacrosse Foundation (W.G. Inter-Colonial RR to Maritimes in the Articles of
7 Beers, Montreal) Confederation
186 Montreal “Football” Club (now Westmount Rugby
8 Club) plays British soldiers at rugby

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)

Quebec Golf Club founded; First organized Hockey

187 game, McGill University at Victoria Ice Rink
5

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 Scotland & Ireland establish Rugby Unions, Quebec

0 City vs Montreal (Golf)
188
1
188 On June 1, newspapers and periodicals printed
2 and published in Canada are granted free
transmission by post within the Dominion.
188 “ World Championship” Lacrosse game in
3 Montreal, Field Hockey Codified (England)
188 Canadian Rugby Union formed (Toronto, Montreal, The Eaton Company, established at Toronto in
4 Hamilton decide to use England’s Rugby-Football 1869, issues its first mail-order catalogue
Union Rules of 1871)

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

189 First Stanley Cup for Hockey Champions of Canada

3 (awarded by the Governor-General) to Montreal
Amateur Athletic Club.

189 Association Athlètique Amateur (first francophone

4 athletic club in Mtl)
189 First Modern Olympics, Athens Greece 1898 The first Christmas stamp in the world is
6 issued by Canada. Also known as the "map
stamp," it is the first multi-coloured stamp
issued by Canada.
190 Nets for Hockey goals; Second Olympic Games in 1899 Funds in the amount of $5000 are voted
0 Paris, France. by Parliament for the purchase of two
automobiles to be used by the Post Office in
Toronto.
 The cars were supposed to be used to transfer
bulky loads of mail between Union Station and
Terminal A, the city’s largest sorting facility at
the time. They were also to be used to help
empty the street letter boxes. In fact, the cars
were never purchased. Instead, the Post Office
bought six quadricyles—a kind of motorized
bicycle—the following year.
190 International Professional Hockey League (PHL);
4 Féderation Internationale de Football
Association (FIFA); First Canadian Open Golf
Club Championship; Third Olympic Games in St,
Louis, USA
190 Hockey team from Dawson City travels by dogsled,
5 steamboat & RR to compete in Stanley Cup in
Ottawa
190 Fourth Olympic Games in London England
8
191 National Hockey Association (Montreal)
0
191 Women compete in Olympic Games for first time,
2 Stockholm Sweden
191 International Football Association (4 Grand Trunk Pacific crosses the Continent in
3 representatives from FIFA and one each from Canada
Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales)
191 RR plays major role in organizing army enlistment;
4 “Winnie The Pooh” bought by a soldier from
Winnipeg @ GTR halt at White River, Ontario;

Canadian RR Corps creates and operates all lines

for British Forces in France.

191 National Hockey League (NHL)

7
191
8
191 GTR bankrupt, becomes Canadian National
9 Railways( CNR)
192 Ice Hockey in Olympics for first time (Gold Medal,
0 Canada) held in Antwerp, Belgium
192 NHL expands into United States; Olympic Games in
4 Paris, France