Rugby Canada
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The current Rugby Canada, the administrative body for rugby union in Canada, has its origins in the Rugby Union of Canada, founded in about 1929.
A Canadian Rugby Football Union was established in 1884 with the specific purpose of organising play-off games between various union champions. Representatives from the Montreal (Rugby) Football club, the Toronto Rugby Football Club and from the Hamilton Rugby Football Club had meetings in Toronto and Montreal. It was decided that the union would continue to use the English rugby rules, and at the end of the season the winning club of the Quebec Championship would play the Ontario Champion for the Club Championship of the Dominion.
This organisation (also known at different times as the Canadian Rugby Union) was the forerunner of the Canadian Football League, as rugby football in Canada evolved into Canadian football. To make matters more confusing the word rugby continued to be applied to Canadian football. It was not until the latter half of the 20th century that the original CRU finally cleared up this confusion by renaming itself Football Canada.
The Rugby Union of Canada, re-formed in 1965 as the Canadian Rugby Union with British Columbia’s Bob Spray as its first president. It was incorporated in 1974 and is affiliated to the International Rugby Board (IRB). Since then, Rugby Canada has been a permanent fixture on the global rugby scene, including trips to each of the five IRB Rugby World Cups (the first of which was 1987 in Australia and New Zealand).
As a regular on the IRB Sevens Circuit, Canada continues to climb the world rankings.
Provincial Rugby Unions in Canada
- British Columbia Rugby Union
- New Brunswick Rugby Union
- Newfoundland Rugby Union
- Ontario Rugby Union
- PEI Rugby Union
- Rugby Alberta
- Rugby Manitoba
- Rugby Nova Scotia
- Rugby Quebec
- Saskatchewan Rugby Union
See also
- Rugby union in Canada
- Canada national rugby union team
- Rugby Canada Super League
- Football Canada
- Grey Cup
External links
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