New Brunswick Celebrates Initiative Promoting Canadian Basketball Roots

April 20, 2025, 6:20 am

These stories focus on a local initiative in New Brunswick aimed at celebrating and reinvigorating pride in Canada’s basketball heritage. The pieces detail how a small mill town is actively promoting the nation’s deep basketball roots as part of a broader cultural and patriotic revival. They underscore efforts to educate the public about Canada’s historical contributions to the sport while fostering community engagement around a cherished national pastime.

globalnews.ca / New Brunswick group hopes to foster pride in basketball’s Canadian roots

A small town in New Brunswick is rallying to turn the world’s oldest basketball court into a museum and a proud symbol of Canada’s legacy in the sport.

theglobeandmail.com / New Brunswick group hopes to foster pride in basketball’s Canadian roots

A brick building nestled between an empty lot and a sports bar in St. Stephen, N.B., is claimed to house the world’s oldest surviving basketball court, with records of a game being played there on Oct. 17, 1893

thestar.com / New Brunswick group hopes to foster pride in basketball's Canadian roots

ST. STEPHEN - The rise in patriotism prompted by a hostile U.S. president is renewing focus on everything Canada has given the world, and a small New Brunswick mill town wants people to know the sport of basketball belongs on…

winnipegfreepress.com / New Brunswick group hopes to foster pride in basketball’s Canadian roots

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