Canada 1st Basketball is looking to raise $10 million in order to preserve the oldest existing basketball court in Canada, located in St. Stephen, N.B.
A New Brunswick group is looking to raise $10 million in order to preserve a piece of Canadian and sports history.
A court in a multi-use building is believed to be the first place in Canada the game was played, after a student of the sport’s inventor – Dr. James Naismith – arrived in town to run the local YMCA.Historians say Lyman Walker Archibald brought the game to the community in 1893.Robert Otto, the group’s president, told CTV’s Your Morning that the court was first used on Oct. 17, 1893.
People in the community were aware that basketball had been played at the building and that it was once a YMCA, Otto said, but that memory “kind of became muddled” due to all the space’s different uses.“It didn’t do a lot of damage to the building thankfully,” Otto said. “I think it kind of awoke the history of the building and the court in the minds of the community and they said ‘we’ve got something special here and we don’t want to lose it, and we almost did.
“We want to preserve that court,” Otto said “We want to make sure that the historical significance is recognized.”
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