New Brunswick group hopes to foster pride in basketball’s Canadian roots | Unpublished
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Author: Hina Alam
Publication Date: April 20, 2025 - 09:31

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

April 20, 2025
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 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.


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