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To: Louis V. Lambrecht who wrote (18280)	8/27/2003 3:39:42 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 39344

Rugby used to be one of the most popular sports in Toronto. It was called football in Australia and Canada that I know of. It became in Australia, Aussie football, where rugby also survived. The sports that used to be most popular in Canada were, lacrosse, then rugby, canoeing, or as the practicioners called it paddling, then hockey, cross country and downhill skiing. Cross country skiing lasted from 1965 to about 1986 say, where it was the sport most practiced by the most number of people of all "people's" sports (believe it or not).. in Canada. Downhill skiing was popular but is only a rich man's sport now. Canoeing used to get 4 pages of pictures in the Telegram in Toronto at the regattas in the 1930's. Rugby would rate about 1 or 1 and half pages. In those days the boardwalk in TO would be solid with people and people actually went in swimming in L. Ontario. Lacross was a ordinary person's "league rage" from 1830 to about 1880 when it became professional and died out. Professional sports such as CDN football and hockey started taking the stage after WWII. Before that most sport, except for professional hockey and lacrosse was decidedly amateur. The Don Mills (Valley.. I forget) Ski Club in Toronto had 100,000 members in the 1970's and was the second largest in the world next to the St. Moritz club in Switzerland. It was an excursionary club, taking a lot of tours to Quebec. I don't know for sure but I believe sepratiste attitudes killed that a tad. Canuckistan is the land of the computer/cable couch potatoe now. New C's don't do old C sports anyway. Amateur hockey is an excuse for parents to get into fights. EC<:-}