The original purpose of the The Glengarry Pipe Band was to provide a local host band for a series of competitons held annually in what Canadian province?
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Glengarry Pipe Band The Glengarry Pipe Band was formed in early 1961 and has operated continuously since that time. The original purpose of the band was to provide a local host band for the Glengarry Highland Games in Maxville, Ontario.
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Glengarry Highland Games The Glengarry Highland Games consist of a series of traditional Scottish competitions held annually in Maxville, Ontario, Canada, usually held the first weekend in August. The games span three days and attract as many as 50,000 people, they are the largest Highland Games of its kind outside Scotland. The Glengarry Highland Games are primarily intended to be a showcase of traditional Scottish heavy events, Highland Dance, pipe and drum competitions.
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Provincial museums of Canada Provincial museums of Canada are museums maintained by the provinces of Canada to preserve their local history and culture. They are the equivalent to national museums operated by nation-states.
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Prince Edward Island Music Awards The Prince Edward Island Music Awards, also referred to as the Music PEI Awards, are an annual set of awards distributed at the beginning of each year to honour musicians and musical works from the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, in the region of Atlantic Canada. The awards are administered by Music PEI, a non-profit music advocacy association which promotes the province's local music industry.
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Windsor Police Pipe Band The Windsor Police Pipe Band is a non-profit organization of bagpipe players and drummers based in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. The band performs Celtic music, and supports culture and lore.
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Willingdon Cup The Willingdon Cup is an annual amateur golf team competition among Canada's provinces.
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Royal Canadian Artillery Band The Royal Canadian Artillery Band (French: "La Musique de l'Artillerie royale canadienne" ) is one of six Regular Force Army bands in the Canadian Armed Forces. Located at Canadian Forces Base Edmonton, the RCA Band provides music designed to support Canadian Forces operations, foster morale and esprit de corps, and promote Canada and the Canadian military nationally and abroad. The band operates mainly in western Canada. All unit members are professional musicians in addition to being members of the military, which enables the band to adopt a variety of configurations to suit the musical needs of their audiences. Ensembles can range from jazz combos, rock bands, and chamber groups, through stage and show bands to full marching and concert bands.
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Canadian Cutting Horse Association The Canadian Cutting Horse Association (CCHA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the equestrian sport of cutting in Canada. Founded in 1954, it regulates a sport that began in the mid-1880s and became popular in Canada in the 1940s and 1950s. The CCHA maintains a Hall of Fame to honour members who have made outstanding contributions to the sport. The CCHA's patron is HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Cutting is a sport based on ranchwork that began in the early 19th century, cutting cattle out of herds. Horses and riders are judged on how well they work to remove a single steer from a herd and keep it from returning. The CCHA promotes a type of horse called the Canadian cutting horse; this type is made up of many breeds with a common stock horse background.
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Red Deer Curling Classic The Red Deer Curling Classic (formerly the Meyers Norris Penny Men's Cashspiel and The Community Savings Ladies Classic) is an annual bonspiel, or curling tournament, that takes place at the Red Deer Curling Centre in Red Deer, Alberta. The tournament is held in a triple-knockout format. The men's tournament, started in 1998, and the women's tournament, started in 2004, are both part of the World Curling Tour and have both been held every year since. Curlers from Alberta have dominated the event on both sides since its inception. The event counts toward the Canadian Team Ranking System, which hands out points based on performances at CTRS events and deals with qualification to the Canadian Olympic Curling Trials.
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Can-Am Bandy Cup Can-Am Bandy Cup is the name of an annually recurring friendly bandy match played between the Canadian and the American national bandy teams.
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2012 Canadian Challenge Trophy The 2012 Canadian Challenge Trophy was hosted in Winnipeg, Manitoba. In the final Royal Select de Beauport (Quebec) defeated Edmonton Scottish (Alberta).
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Presidents Cup (box lacrosse) The Presidents Cup is the national Senior-level box lacrosse championship for the Canadian Lacrosse Association. The annual Championship awards a "Gold", "Silver", and "Bronze" placing. The skill levels have been adjusted in recent years; Senior "B" teams from across Canada now compete for the Presidents Cup (as before it was all Senior teams). Senior "A" is now represented by Ontario's Major Series Lacrosse and the Western Lacrosse Association (British Columbia), who compete for the Mann Cup.
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Chilliwack Huskers The Valley Huskers (formerly known as the "Chilliwack Huskers") are a Canadian Junior Football team based in Chilliwack, British Columbia. The Huskers play in the eight-team B.C. Football Conference, which itself is part of the Canadian Junior Football League (CJFL) and competes annually for the national title known as the Canadian Bowl. The Huskers were founded in 1999 by Keith Currie, also known as "Father Football". Keith was also a co-founder of Chilliwack Minor Football.
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Dominion Exhibition The Dominion Exhibition was an exhibition held annually in Canada from 1879 to 1913. Every year the federal government awarded the role of host of the exhibition to one of the country's larger fairs.
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1922 Memorial Cup The 1922 Memorial Cup final was the fourth junior ice hockey championship of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association. The Eastern Canada champions were scheduled to play the Western Canada champions for the Memorial Cup in a two-game, total goal series, to be held at Shea's Amphitheatre in Winnipeg, Manitoba, The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association decided to save money, to have the George Richardson Memorial Trophy winners Toronto Aura Lee play the Fort William War Veterans en route to Winnipeg, rather than have Fort William play the Abbott Cup champions Regina Pats of the South Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League. Fort William defeated Aura Lee 5-3 in the sudden death playoff game. Fort William later won their 1st Memorial Cup, defeating Regina 8 goals to 7.
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The National (curling) The National is a Canadian curling tournament. It is one of the seven events that are part of the Grand Slam of Curling tour, and one of the six events on the tour to feature both men's and women's competition.
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Canadian GAA The Canadian GAA is responsible for Gaelic games all across Canada. It has the same status as one of the county boards of Ireland and is one of over thirty regional GAA executive boards throughout the world. The board is responsible for Gaelic football, hurling, camogie and ladies' Gaelic football teams in Canada.
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Rugby Quebec Rugby Québec is the popular name of the Fédération de Rugby du Québec (formerly the Québec Rugby Union) which is the provincial governing body for the sport of rugby union in the Canadian province of Québec. The Fédération de Rugby du Québec is affiliated with the Canadian Rugby Union.
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP; French: "Gendarmerie royale du Canada (GRC)" , "Royal Gendarmerie of Canada"; colloquially known as the Mounties, and internally as "the Force") is both a federal and a national police force of Canada. The RCMP provides law enforcement at a federal level in Canada, and also on a contract basis to the three territories, eight of Canada's provinces (the RCMP does not provide provincial or municipal policing in either Ontario or Quebec), more than 150 municipalities, 600 aboriginal communities, and three international airports.
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2008 Allan Cup The 2008 Allan Cup was the 2008 edition of the Canadian National Championship of Senior ice hockey, and the tournament marked the 100th year that the Allan Cup has been awarded. The 2008 tournament was hosted by the City of Brantford, Ontario, and the Brantford Blast of the Ontario Hockey Association's Major League Hockey. The tournament began on April 14, 2008, and concluded April 19, 2008.
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Canadian National Exhibition Association Act Canadian National Exhibition Association Act is a provincial statute first passed in 1983 and amended in 1999 to establish the governance and operation of the Canadian National Exhibition.
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Canada Cup (fighting game event) The Canada Cup is an annual fighting game event held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Launched as the Calgary Cup in 2009, the event, organized by Lap Chi Duong, has been a major "Street Fighter" tournament and is part of the Capcom Pro Tour.