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For the nation and its supporters, it signalled a new era of events. The years from 2015 to 2022 were punctuated by a world-wide pandemic. The league was tested, suffered the loss of a season, yet still managed to carry on. The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation was also celebrated in Canada that year. It was declared following an Edmonton Elks game against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. The game was broadcast that day in Edmonton in both E...

Canadian Football 1983-1994: Gone South focuses on the CFL's rationale and move to expand to the United States. It details the controversy throughout the League and the country. It leads directly to the next book in this series Home Again. Therein, The Baltimore Stallions and their Grey Cup win of 1995 is documented: the first and only Grey Cup win by an American based team. The Stallions moved the next year to Montreal to become the Alouettes...

It was a time when small towns could still challenge for the Stanley Cup, the holy grail of Canadian hockey. The O'Briens of Renfrew, Ontario, father M.J. and son Ambrose, formed their own league, the National Hockey Association, owned four of the five teams and founded the Montreal Canadiens. Money appeared to be no object. Top players Lester and Frank Patrick, Fred "Cyclone" Taylor and "Newsy" Lalonde were paid large salaries with the object...

The little eastern Ontario town of Almonte has produced two giants in the field of athletics. Neither was a world champion, neither was an Olympic medallist, but each in his own way transformed the sports world. Both were pioneers in the development of physical education as a serious academic discipline. James Naismith contributed his own invention, basketball, to the modern world. R. Tait McKenzie left a timeless legacy in his considerable...

Canadian Football 1969-1982: CLOSED DOORS & Alberta Crude leans heavily on the original publication A Passing Game: A History of the CFL published in 1996. This book is based mainly on minutes of meetings made available to the author. It is a companion to another effort published under the title Canadian Football 1983-1994:Gone South. An earlier work, Canadian Football: The Grey Cup Years, published in 1969 will also become available soon. The...

Canadian Football: The Grey Cup Years traces the first sixty years of the Grey Cup and its influence as a catalyst for the growth of football in Canada. Football moved from an occasion for competition among local teams, to inter-city and inter-provincial rivalries and eventually to the national scene. It began as a purely amateur sport and morphed into the Canadian Football League. Key elements in its growth are discussed: the rise of professi...

A Soviet plot runs headlong into the message of Fatima in a battle guided by Michael and a Polish Pope. The reader is forced to ask whether it is all coincidence or divine intervention

Ted Reeves: Bard of the Beach follows the life of the footballer and sports reporter through his years as a player, a coach, a columnist and a soldier. The insights of the five time Hall of Famer are presented in the thoughts of Moaner McGruffey, Alice Snippersnapper, Figgers Foley, Nutsy Fagan and others conjured up in Ted Reeve's mind.

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Home Again is the tracking of the Canadian Football League from 1995 - 2014. The year 1995 represents the only time to this date when the Grey Cup was won by a team outside Canada. The Baltimore Stallions folded after that season and were resurrected in Montreal as the Alouettes. It was never easy. Over a 20 year period, the league reeled, staggered and went through tumultuous and some glorious times: The Grey Cup and the Canadian Football Lea...