In Trois Rivieres in 1884

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Date of Game 1884
Location Trois Rivieres, Quebec, Canada
Description Historian Gilles Janson states that a Franco-American immigrant from
Marlboro, Massachusetts, helped to transplant baseball to rural Quebec upon return to
Trois-Rivières in 1884. The Fernand Bedard Museum dates 1884 as the start of baseball in Trois-Rivieres.

The city had 8.670 residents in 1881.

Sources Jonathan Gosnell, Le base ball, Assimilation, and Ethnic Identity: The National
Pastime in Franco-America  (Smith College, 2018)
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