Lacrosse in Canada Lacrosse in Canada Modern lacrosse in Canada has been a popular sport since the mid 1800s. Only field lacrosse was played until the 1930s, when box lacrosse was invented. In 1994 Parliament passed the "National Sports of Canada Act" which declared lacrosse to be "Canada's National Summer Sport", with ice hockey as the National Winter Sport. Lacrosse was played by First Nations peoples before the arrival of European colonists. The first documented description of the game was in 1637. The game was called "baggataway" and "tewaarathon", which was played by two teams with 100 to 1,000 men each on a
Western Canada Summer Games to larger group talks then formal meetings and conferences that viewed, reviewed and over viewed the total situation. The crunching conclusion – the existing sport competitions just were not developing athletes of national and international caliber and were not providing adequate outlets for greater recognition of many sports and athletes. That conclusion was not a criticism of the benefits of existing sports programs but recognition simply that athletes just were not progressing along the continuum to achieve national and international results. The various provincial games of 1972 combined to form the idea of staging major multi-sport games in Western Canada,