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Originally Posted by shareall,Apr 24 2009, 04:48 AM
I believe that technically our national sports are hockey and lacrosse. 
Technically, yes:
Library and Archives Canada holds one of the richest collections of documents on curling in Canada, acquired from various regional, national, and international curling bodies. In Bonspiel!, selections from these records are united under the theme of playing and enjoying the unofficial national sport of curling.
In 1876, the year after Sir John A. Macdonald became Canada's first Prime Minister, Manitoba's first curling club was formed, in Winnipeg. December 11th saw the first match held there and, as was the custom, the losers were required to donate a barrel of oatmeal to the hospital.
s in eastern Canada, the curling club was more than just an athletic club. It became the social centre of the community, perhaps best exemplified by a short 1963 National Film Board movie, Gone Curling, which depicted a lone visitor to town, trying to find a variety of people, only to discover they had all
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From: SJC
"Apparently, Gordon Hudson-Lays Lincoln was born on February 18th, 1924 in Kelowna, BC. The child of a Hudson Bay Blanket and a package Ketchup Chips, Gordon was raised in a conventional Canadian home, with an appreciation of Tim Horton's and Hockey.
For reasons still unexplained by historians, Gordon was noted for having learned how to make poutein. Gordon repeatedly claimed he learned how to make it while defending the bridge over the Fraser from the Americans at Ft. Alexandria in the 1840's. The late Pierre Laporte mentioning that Lincoln's poutein was finer than his mother's.
Gordon, or, "Gordie," as his friends would later call him, would go down in the history books for his contribution to the development of the Canadian Pacific railroad. 20 miles West of Winnipeg, Gordie was helping to lay track, when suddenly a rail dropped, flattening his fingers. This subsequently rendered him unable to work on the Canadian Pacific.
In light of this, Cornelius Van Horne took a shine to Gordie, and appointed him "Officer of The Watch" of the water tower outside of South Headingly, Manitoba.
Gordie has been there ever since."
For reasons still unexplained by historians, Gordon was noted for having learned how to make poutein. Gordon repeatedly claimed he learned how to make it while defending the bridge over the Fraser from the Americans at Ft. Alexandria in the 1840's. The late Pierre Laporte mentioning that Lincoln's poutein was finer than his mother's.
Gordon, or, "Gordie," as his friends would later call him, would go down in the history books for his contribution to the development of the Canadian Pacific railroad. 20 miles West of Winnipeg, Gordie was helping to lay track, when suddenly a rail dropped, flattening his fingers. This subsequently rendered him unable to work on the Canadian Pacific.
In light of this, Cornelius Van Horne took a shine to Gordie, and appointed him "Officer of The Watch" of the water tower outside of South Headingly, Manitoba.
Gordie has been there ever since."
