New Brunswick group hopes to foster pride in basketball's Canadian roots

New Brunswick group hopes to foster pride in basketball’s Canadian roots - New Brunswick

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.

New Brunswick group hopes to foster pride in basketball's Canadian roots

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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…

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The rise in patriotism prompted by the 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 that list. 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. For years, locals ha…

SAINT-STEPHEN — The rise of patriotism by a hostile U.S. president sheds light on all that Canada has brought to the world, and a small industrial city in New Brunswick wants basketball to be a part of this list. A brick building nestled between a loose field and a sports bar in St-Stephen, New Brunswick, would house the oldest remaining basketball field in the world, with archives of a game held there on October 17, 1893. For years, people have…