Feature Articles

Caughnawaga

by Stan Shillington | reLax 2025.04.21, Stan Shillington, Origins, Down Memory Lane, Notable Team

The Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame has introduced a new “Team” category in 1998. Each year, an outstanding field or box lacrosse team will be honoured by the sport’s national shrine in New Westminster.

It is fitting, then, that Caughnawaga be named the first to enter the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame’s new “Team” category

Lacrosse National Game

by Stan Shillington | Origins, Down Memory Lane

Canada has spawned its share of imaginary, home-spun tales during its 132 years of life, myths such as Ogopogo, Sasquatch and balanced government budgets. But there was another fallacy that hoodwinked even the most knowledgeable historians and scholars: Lacrosse was the National Game of Canada by an Act of Parliament passed in the year of Confederation.

02 – Lacrosse: The National Game of Canada – 1869 Book by William Beers

by CLHOF | Origins, 21 Objects, books, First of Kind, reLax 2025.03.02

In 1867, as lacrosse was growing significantly in popularity, Beers created the Canadian National Lacrosse Foundation. In 1869, Beers published a book on lacrosse entitled Lacrosse: The National Game of Canada.

CLA 150 Anniversary Program 2017

by Hutch | Origins, Notable Event, History, Indigenous Stories and Lore, Anniversary, reLax 2025.03.16

CLA 150 Anniversary Program 2017
The 150th Anniversary of Lacrosse Celebration is a once-in-a-lifetime event — a festival of activities that will help honour and celebrate the history and cultural significance of Canada’s national summer sport, lacrosse.
The event will be an educational, interactive, and celebratory one, through which the
Canadian Lacrosse Foundation (CLF) will highlight lacrosse’s significance in nation-building and its spiritual significance to the First Nations.