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 Skeet Shooting (Open), Volleyball (M, W), Water Polo (M, W), Water Skiing (M, W), Weightlifting (M/W), Wrestling (M, W) The Kamloops, British Columbia 2011 Western Canada Summer Games were held August 5–14, 2011 in Kamloops B.C., which included two phases. Phase 1 events include: Phase 2 events include: Over the past number of decades in all areas of Western Canada there has been a remarkable hosting of sports competitions of all kinds, held under a wide variety of authorities, but all, in their own individual sport rights, worthy, effective and official. These have been local and area competitions, regional and