Rugby Canada
Sport | Rugby union |
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Founded | 1974 |
World Rugby affiliation | 1987 |
RAN affiliation | 2001 |
Chairman | Tim Powers |
Men's coach | Kingsley Jones |
Women's coach | Sandro Fiorino |
Website | www |
Rugby Canada is the national
History
Canadian Rugby Football Union
The Canadian Rugby Football Union was established in 1884 with the specific purpose of organizing play-off games between various union champions. Representatives from the Montreal Football club (now known as the Westmount Rugby Club), the Toronto Rugby Football Club and the Hamilton Rugby Football Club, had meetings in Toronto and Montreal. The union continued to use the English rugby rules, and at the end of the season the winning club of the Quebec Championship played the Ontario Champion for the Club Championship of the Dominion.
This organization (also known as the Canadian Rugby Union) was the forerunner of the Canadian Football League, as rugby football in Canada evolved into Canadian football with rugby union being known as English rugby. To make matters more confusing the word rugby continued to be applied to Canadian football. It was not until 1967 that the original CRU finally cleared up this confusion by renaming itself the Canadian Amateur Football Association; it adopted its current name of Football Canada in 1986.
Rugby Union of Canada
The Rugby Union of Canada, re-formed in 1965 and incorporated in 1974, is affiliated to
Teams
National teams
National 7s teams
- Canada national rugby sevens team
- Canada women's national rugby union team (sevens)
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
IGR Rugby Teams in Canada
Canada has four Rugby Teams that are also part of
See also
References
- ^ "BINGHAM CUP OTTAWA 2022 CONCLUDES AFTER WEEK-LONG EVENT CELEBRATING INCLUSIVE RUGBY". Rugby Canada. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
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