In Halifax in 1786

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Date of Game 1786
Game Cricket
Location Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Has Source On Hand No
NY Rules No - Predecessor
Description Cricket was played in Halifax in the 1780s
Sources “To the Gentlemen of the Navy and Army,” Nova Scotia Gazette and the Weekly Chronicle (Halifax), 17 October 1786, 3.
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In October 1786, a Halifax cricket team drawn from the “Dock Yard and Town” published a newspaper challenge to potential opponents from the army and navy.

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