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Sports History |
 | | Canadian sport is indebted to Indian culture for the TOBOGGAN, snowshoe, lacrosse stick and CANOE. |
 | | These ranged from simple and useful sports such as tobogganing, sleighing, ICE SKATING and sailing, through individual sports advocated for their general health values (GYMNASTICS, TRACK AND FIELD, and swimming), to such highly complex sports as ROWING, where the skill of the rowers was combined with the science of the boat builders. |
 | | The unifying force of sport was also clearly shown when all of Canada basked in the glory achieved by the Saint John crew in Paris. |
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