Canada

The??Toronto Rifles??were a minor-league professional??American football??team that played in the Continental Football League between 1964 and 1967. The team's home fields were??Maple Leaf Stadium??(1965)??and??Varsity Stadium??from 1966 to 1967. The team was owned by Montreal businessman Johnny Newman.

The Montreal Beavers were established in 1961 as the Indianapolis Warriors in the United Football League. In 1965, the team moved to Ft. Wayne and joined the Continental Football League. In 1966, the club was sold and moved to Montreal where it was renamed...

Remember kids, Electricity is your friend, but he can kill you. Even at Christmas!

Are you "reddy" for an electrifying Christmas?

Reddy is ready for Christmas! Are you....?

The Calgary Cowboys began as the Philadelphia Blazers in the inaugural season of the World Hockey Association in 1972. The team moved to Vancouver in 1973, keeping their nickname. In 1975 they moved to Calgary and became the Cowboys. They folded in 1977.

Established in 1965 as the Houston Apollos in the Central Hockey League, the club known today as the Laval Rocket moved to Montreal in 1969 to become the Voyageurs. They also jumped to the American Hockey League that year. In 1971, they moved to...

The Las Vegas Posse played one season (1994) in the Canadian Football League before packing their bags and heading to South Florida. Renamed the Miami Manatees, they were set to return for the 1996 campaign. However, they never played a down in the Sunshine...

The Ottawa Civics lasted for only two weeks in World Hockey Association (WHA. They started the 1975-76 season as the Denver Spurs, who were a bit of an oddity. The Spurs actually began four years earlier as members of the Western Hockey League. When that...

In 1993, finished with a record of??95 wins and 67 losses. They won their second consecutive championship and remain one of the most beloved sports teams in Canadian history.

The 1994 baseball season was cut short by a player's strike that dragged on into fall and resulted in the cancellation of the post season. When the strike began, Montreal was in first place with a record of 74-40, the best record in the...

SkyDome opened in 1989 as the new home of Toronto's baseball and football teams. The city's basketball team played there from 1995 to 1999 while a new arena was being built downtown. The football team got the boot in 2015, leaving the baseball team...

Have a happy, happy, happy, Hanukkah!

Did you survive the Blizzard of '78? Known throughout the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes region as the Great Blizzard of 1978 and the White Hurricane, the storm blasted the area from Wednesday, January 25 through Friday, January 27, 1978. The cities of Milwaukee,...

Jackie Robinson best known for breaking the color barrier in the modern era of baseball, but fans of the sport also recognize his extra ordinary talent. After playing for the Negro American League's Kansas City Monarchs in 1945, he was signed by Brooklyn and...

The International Hockey League (IHL) was, along with the American Hockey League (AHL), the sports top developmental circuit. Founded in 1945, it started in smaller markets, but eventually had teams in big cities, some with NHL teams. Over expansion and financial strains caused the...

The original Toronto Falcons were established in 1967 and played one season in the National Professional Soccer League (NPSL). After the United Soccer League merged with the NPSL, the Falcons played one season in that circuit. They averaged around 5,500 fans a game at...

 Sherbet Fountain was a liquorish candy sold in the UK in the 60s and 70s. It was re-introduced in 2009 with an improved formula that sought to overcome the earlier versions shortcomings. OS15658

Did you ever drink Dino Fizz cola? OS15657

The Bell System was a network of telecommunication companies, led by the Bell Telephone Company and later by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), that dominated telephone service in North America for over a century. It was formed in 1877 and broken up on anti-trust grounds in 1983. Colloquially, the system...

The first major professional league for inline hockey was the Roller Hockey International and it operated from 1993 to 1999.  OS15778

Boblo Island Amusement Park on Bois Blanc Island, Ontario, operated from 1898 until its closure on September 30, 1993.   OS15855

The Montreal Roadrunners played from 1994 to 1997 in the Roller Hockey International and were even finalists for the Murphy Cup in 1995. OS15858

The Ottawa Lynx were a Minor League Baseball team that competed in the Triple-A International League (IL) from 1993 to 2007, playing their home games at Lynx Stadium. OS15861

The Edmonton Trappers were a minor league baseball team that were part of the Triple-A level in the Pacific Coast League, from 1981 to 2004. OS15863

Dow Breweries was a brewery based in the province of Quebec, Canada and was founded by William Dow. The Dow Brewery eventually came under the control of National Breweries of Quebec in the 1920s, which itself was bought out in 1952 by Canadian Breweries. After...

Before they became the Orlando Rollergators in 1994, this Roller Hockey International team was known as the Edmonton Sled Dogs. OS16040

The Guvernment, formerly known as RPM, was a nightclub complex in Toronto that opened in 1996 and closed in 2015.  OS16093

Marvellous Mmmuffins, also known as mmmuffins, was a Canadian restaurant chain that sold coffee and muffins from 1979 until it closed in 2020. OS16094

The Crawlspace launched on April 4, 1994, airing nonstop episodes of various series with a host block between each episode.  OS16095