Canada Games

The Games were first held in 1967 in Quebec City as part of Canada's Centennial celebrations. For the first time in Canada's history, 1,800 athletes from 10 provinces and two territories gathered to compete in 15 sports. Since 1967, over 75,000 athletes have participated in the Games. The Games have been hosted in every province at least once since their inception in Quebec City during Canada’s Centennial in 1967. Journalist Eddie MacCabe wrote a history book for the 25th anniversary of the Canada Games in 1992.[4][5]

Facility development

Panorama of Yukon University in 2007. Buildings in the foreground are residences built for the 2007 Canada Winter Games as an athlete's village.

Facilities built for the Canada Games
Facility	Broke ground	City and Province
Canada Games Pool	1973	New Westminster, British Columbia
Canada Games Aquatic Centre	1985	Saint John, New Brunswick
Hillside Stadium and Aquatic Centre	1993	Kamloops, British Columbia
Corner Brook Canada Games Centre and Annex	1999	Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador
TD Waterhouse Stadium	2001	London, Ontario
Yukon University residences built for the Canada Winter Games as an athlete's village	Built for the 2007 Canada Winter Games	Whitehorse, Yukon
Canada Games Centre	Built for the 2011 Canada Winter Games	Clayton Park, a suburb of Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Over the course of the history of the Canada Games, a variety of sports have been added and dropped at various points within the Summer Games and Winter Games programs. The winter games include some sports not associated with winter. The next Canada Winter Games will include 20 sports in its program in the 2023 Canada Winter Games. Box lacrosse made a return to the 2022 Canada Summer Games for the first time since 1985.[6]

The games are governed by the Canada Games Council, a private, non-profit organization. As the Games move from one host community to the next, the Council provides the continuity, leadership and support to Host Societies in key areas such as sport technical, organizational planning, ceremonies and protocol, marketing and sponsorship. In addition, the Canada Games Council ensures effective long-term partnerships with national sport organizations, governments and the corporate sector. The Canada Games Council is a well-established, national organization that fosters on-going partnerships with organizations at the municipal, provincial and national levels.

* The host cities have not been chosen for the games after 2025, but the provinces through 2037 have.[10]

Year	Canada Winter Games		Canada Summer Games
	No.	Host city	No.	Host city
1967	1	Quebec City, Quebec
1969			2	Halifax and Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
1971	3	Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
1973			4	New Westminster and Burnaby, British Columbia
1975	5	Lethbridge, Alberta
1977			6	St. John's, Newfoundland
1979	7	Brandon, Manitoba
1981			8	Thunder Bay, Ontario
1983	9	Saguenay and Lac Saint-Jean, Quebec
1985			10	Saint John, New Brunswick
1987	11	Sydney, Nova Scotia
1989			12	Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
1991	13	Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
1993			14	Kamloops, British Columbia
1995	15	Grande Prairie, Alberta
1997			16	Brandon, Manitoba
1999	17	Corner Brook, Newfoundland
2001			18	London, Ontario
2003	19	Bathurst and Campbellton, New Brunswick
2005			20	Regina, Saskatchewan
2007	21	Whitehorse, Yukon
2009			22	Summerside and Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
2011	23	Halifax, Nova Scotia
2013			24	Sherbrooke, Quebec
2015	25	Prince George, British Columbia
2017			26	Winnipeg, Manitoba
2019	27	Red Deer, Alberta
2022			28	Niagara Region, Ontario[11][12]
2023	29	Prince Edward Island
2025			30	St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador[13]
2027	31	Yukon*
2029			32	New Brunswick*
2031	33	Quebec*
2033			34	Saskatchewan*
2035	35	Northwest Territories*
2037			36	Nova Scotia*

Map of host cities

1967

1969,2011

1971,1989

1973

1975

1977, 2025

1979,1997

1981

1983

1985

1987

1991,2009,2023

1993

1995

1999

2001

2003

2005

2007

2013

2015

2017

2019

2022

Host cities of Canada Games

For Games medal standings see List of Canada Games.

As of the 2022 Canada Games

Rank	Province/Territory	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Ontario	1297	1092	1013	3402
2	Quebec	1117	975	932	3024
3	British Columbia	730	809	773	2312
4	Alberta	505	569	668	1742
5	Saskatchewan	196	269	348	813
6	Manitoba	172	224	308	704
7	Nova Scotia	209	211	232	652
8	New Brunswick	72	92	165	329
9	Newfoundland and Labrador	20	48	71	139
10	Prince Edward Island	12	21	26	59
11	Yukon	15	23	19	57
12	Northwest Territories	7	6	9	22
13	Nunavut	1	0	1	2

Summer Games

Rank	Province/territory	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Ontario	763	576	547	1886
2	Quebec	436	483	468	1387
3	British Columbia	474	465	394	1333
4	Alberta	232	274	310	816
5	Nova Scotia	153	145	135	433
6	Saskatchewan	100	147	181	428
7	Manitoba	60	103	139	302
8	New Brunswick	33	45	59	137
9	Newfoundland and Labrador	4	19	26	49
10	Prince Edward Island	5	5	2	12
11	Yukon	2	1	3	6
12	Northwest Territories	0	0	0	0
13	Nunavut	0	0	0	0

Winter Games

Rank	Province/territory	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Quebec	634	456	431	1521
2	Ontario	464	457	425	1346
3	British Columbia	238	300	349	887
4	Alberta	238	265	323	826
5	Manitoba	103	112	155	370
6	Saskatchewan	95	108	154	357
7	New Brunswick	36	42	98	176
8	Nova Scotia	34	54	81	169
9	Newfoundland and Labrador	15	23	45	83
10	Prince Edward Island	6	16	24	46
11	Yukon	13	20	16	49
12	Northwest Territories	7	6	9	22
13	Nunavut	0	0	1	1

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