Centre Acadien, Université Sainte-Anne

Sports in Clare –Since its foundation in 1890, Collège Sainte-Anne has played a leading role in Clare’s sports scene. Right from the start, sports activities were considered an essential factor for the intellectual and moral development of students. The most popular sports were baseball and hockey. Teams from Collège Sainte-Anne played against teams from various local communities.

Le Petit Courrier documents that in the 1930s, hockey games were organized between students and amateur players from the village of Church Point and a little later, from the village of Little Brook. In the 1940s, there was even a match between the “Étoiles de Sainte-Anne” and the Montreal Junior Canadiens.

This photo shows the pride of the hockey team that represented Saint-Anne’s College in the early 1950s. As more and more elite Quebec players enrolled at the school, local passion for the game grew in leaps and bound.

Where hockey was the strength of the Quebec players, players from Meteghan are often a force to be reckoned with on the baseball field. The Meteghan Shipbuilders team won the Nova Scotia Senior Baseball Championship twice: in 1947 and 1949.

Sports, especially hockey, continued to play an important role in Clare in the 1970s and 1980s, and to this very day.

Topic: Sports and Leisure

Date: [ca. 1952]

Reference: Université Sainte-Anne Collection Centre Acadien Series F, photo 78

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