The Canadian Sportsman
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Back To Last Call OnlineJanuary 15, 2010
The latest installment from my weekly Guelph Mercury column…
Considering all the remarkable things that happened in 1870, the fact a man named E. King Dodds started a sports publication in Toronto was hardly big news.
That same year, just five years after the end of the U.S. Civil War, the 15th Amendment to the Constitution was passed guaranteeing the right to vote to all men regardless of race.
Construction began on the Brooklyn Bridge (just try to imagine the New York skyline without it) and the first New York subway line opened.
Manitoba officially became just Canada’s fifth province, joining Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
In Philadelphia, the first motion picture was shown to a theatre audience.
The Chicago Base Ball Club, later to become the Chicago Cubs, played its first game.
It is believed 1870 was also the year some McGill University student drew up the first formal ice hockey rules, four years before McGill played Harvard in the first game of modern American football.
Less well known is the fact a little publication called The Canadian Sportsman was born. Today, as it begins the celebration of its 140th year, The Canadian Sportsman is the oldest continuously-published magazine in Canada.
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