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Timeline Theme: Sports and Leisure

The Six Nations Chiefs

The Six Nations Chiefs lacrosse team logo. Sourced from Six Nations Chiefs official website.

Hockey And Lacrosse Face-Off to Become Canada’s National Sport

A photograph of Jean Chretien published in the Toronto Star on September 22, 1994. Image by Rick Madonik and sourced from the Toronto Public Library.

Kevin Sandy: bringing the game back to its people

A photograph of Kevin Sandy, co-chair of the Indigenous Partnership Council with the Canada Games and a member of the Cayuga Nation, playing with a traditional wooden lacrosse stick with a deerskin ball. Image by Bobby Hristova and sourced from CBC.

The Toronto Baseball Club

A photographic tryptch of three headliner players of the 1887 Toronto Baseball Club: Players from the 1887 Toronto Baseball Club: Mike Slattery, Harry Decker and Cannonball Crane. Image sourced from Spacing.

The Creation of Baseball’s Colour Barrier

The Christie Pits Riot

A photograph of the Christie Pits Riot captured by a photographer of the Globe and Mail in 1933. Sourced from the City of Toronto Archive.

The Real-Life Star of the Rockford Peaches

An image of Gladys Davis originally from a team photo of the 1943 AAGPBL team, the Rockford Peaches. Image sourced from Wikimedia Commons.

Hockey: An Introduction

THE THIRD PERIOD: 1968 to today

A photograph of Harold Ballard in a Maple Leafs jersey trying to jokingly block out the sound of jeering crowds. The Toronto Star article headline for this image, published on March 23, 1980, reads: "Trade him: Fans expressed their love -- in jeers -- for Leafs' boss Harold Ballard na old-timers' game last night." Image taken by Jeff Goode and sourced from the Toronto Public Library.

THE SECOND PERIOD: 1927 to 1967

A photograph of Conn Smythe, owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs from 1927 to 1961. Image sourced from Canadian Sports Hall of Fame.
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