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What is the national game of Canada?


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Ice hockey is the national game of Canada. It is listed as Canada’s national winter sport and LaCrosse is listed as Canada’s national summer sport.
  • The most common sports in Canada are ice hockey, lacrosse, gridiron football, soccer, basketball, curling and baseball.
  • 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, a sport with Indigenous origins, is Canada’s oldest sport.
  • Lacrosse was played by First Nations peoples before the arrival of European colonists.
  • Ice hockey is a contact team sport played on ice, usually in an indoor or outdoor rink, in which two teams of skaters use their sticks to shoot a vulcanized rubber puck into their opponent’s net to score goals.

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