Rugby Canada is the national governing body for the sport of rugby union in Canada . Rugby Canada was incorporated in 1974, and stems from the Canadian Rugby Football Union, a body established in 1884 that now governs amateur Canadian football as Football Canada ; and the now-defunct Rugby Union of Canada, established in 1929. Rugby Canada administers the Canada national rugby union team and sanctions the Rugby Canada National Junior Championship , a national competition for under-20 men's teams. It previously sanctioned the Super League as the premier level of men's competition in the country, but scrapped that league after the Americas Rugby Championship was created in 2009 as a two-stage competition in which the first involved only Canadian teams.
8-762: The Rugby Canada Super League ( RCSL or Super League ) was a national, semi-professional rugby union competition in Canada. The league represented the second level of domestic rugby union in Canada, and the highest level wholly indigenous to Canada. In terms of seniority it rested immediately beneath the IRB sponsored North America 4 , a former US/Canadian cross-border competition in which two Canadian teams ( Canada East and Canada West ) took part. Most players took part in RCSL ("Super League") on an amateur basis. In early 2009, after 11 seasons of play, Rugby Canada decided to disband
16-627: Is affiliated to World Rugby . It has competed in nine out of ten Rugby World Cups (the first in 1987 in Australia and New Zealand ) and in the World Rugby Sevens Series . National teams National 7s teams Canada has four Rugby Teams that are also part of International Gay Rugby ; Montreal Armada , Toronto Muddy York , Ottawa Wolves , and the Vancouver Rogues . In 2022 the international Bingham Cup
24-777: The Fraser Valley Rugby Union of B.C. ("The Venom") and the Manitoba Rugby Union ("The Buffalo") elected not to participate, which created an unbalanced situation where the Western Division had five teams (therefore only four games in their season), while the Eastern Division had seven (six games). Rugby Canada The Canadian Rugby Football Union was established in 1884 with the specific purpose of organizing play-off games between various union champions. Representatives from
32-690: The Calgary Rugby Union and Edmonton Rugby Union are sub-unions of the larger Alberta Rugby Union and had both been given representation in the Super League. Teams were divided into Eastern and Western Divisions and played each of the other teams in their division once. The top team in each division played each other for the national championship. The league rarely had identical membership from season to season, with teams who have membership occasionally electing not to play due to financial, logistical or level-of-play concerns. For 2006 season,
40-855: The Canadian Rugby Union) was the forerunner of the Canadian Football League , as rugby football in Canada evolved into Canadian football with rugby union being known as English rugby . To make matters more confusing the word rugby continued to be applied to Canadian football . It was not until 1967 that the original CRU finally cleared up this confusion by renaming itself the Canadian Amateur Football Association; it adopted its current name of Football Canada in 1986. The Rugby Union of Canada, re-formed in 1965 and incorporated in 1974,
48-1083: The Montreal Football club (now known as the Westmount Rugby Club ), the Toronto Rugby Football Club and the Hamilton Rugby Football Club, had meetings in Toronto and Montreal. The union continued to use the English rugby rules, and at the end of the season the winning club of the Quebec Championship played the Ontario Champion for the Club Championship of the Dominion. This organization (also known as
56-1046: The RCSL in the wake of the establishment of the Americas Rugby Championship , the successor to the North America 4. The RCSL was replaced by the Canadian Rugby Championship and the Rugby Canada National Junior Championship , which absorbed the majority of the RCSL teams. The competition was established in 1998 and had been played on an annual basis. It is considered to be Canada's premier wholly domestic rugby competition. Players on Canada's senior men's team were often chosen from Super League clubs. The Super League drew its teams from provincial unions. Larger unions (BC, Alberta, and Ontario) had more than one representative team; those teams were drawn largely from provincial sub-unions. For example,
64-649: Was held in Ottawa , Ontario . Vancouver Rogues The Vancouver Rogues is a rugby union team based in Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada . It's inclusive to players of all sexual orientations and gender identities and is part of the IGR . In 2022 the team participated in the Bingham Cup and was the top Canadian Team that participated. The Vancouver Rogues were originally established in 2002 and
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