Cananore Football Club was an Australian rules football

Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

 club, founded in 1901.

It competed in the Tasmanian Football League

Tasmanian Football League

Tasmanian State League is the highest ranked Australian rules football league in Tasmania, Australia.The league has a long and convoluted history which dates back to its founding on 12 June 1879 Tasmanian State League (TSL) (formerly known as the Tasmanian Football League (TFL), Tasmanian...

 (TFL/TANFL) as a junior club from 1901 to 1907, and as a senior club between 1908 and 1941.

In 1942, the TFL competition was suspended indefinitely due to World War II. The club did not resume competition after the war and, to all intents and purposes, the former Cananore Football Club was transformed into what is now the Hobart Football Club

Hobart Football Club

Hobart Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in Hobart, Tasmania. They play their home fixtures at the TCA Ground on the Queens Domain, in Hobart and from 2009, the club has been a member of the Tasmanian State League.- Club history :...

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The Canaries

They were known as the Canaries and wore black and gold as their club colours.

TFL status

Cananore played as a junior club between 1901 and 1907; and, as a junior club, played their matches at West Hobart Oval (the current school oval of the Lansdowne Crescent School) .

Cananore gained senior club status for the 1908 TFL season; and, from then, played their home games at the Tasmanian Cricket Association Ground

TCA Ground

The TCA Ground, or Tasmanian Cricket Association Ground, is one of two First Class standard cricket grounds in Hobart, Tasmania in Australia...

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"Cananore"

The name of the Cananore Football Club was derived from a misspelt plaque on a large family home, which had been a gathering point for fans of the club in its formative years. The house is long demolished and the plaque is now displayed in the Hobart Football Clubrooms.

Premierships

The club were TFL/TANFL

Tasmanian Football League

Tasmanian State League is the highest ranked Australian rules football league in Tasmania, Australia.The league has a long and convoluted history which dates back to its founding on 12 June 1879 Tasmanian State League (TSL) (formerly known as the Tasmanian Football League (TFL), Tasmanian...

 premiers eleven times and Tasmanian State Premiers

Tasmanian State Premiership

The Tasmanian State Premiership was an Australian rules football tournament which was competed originally between the reigning TFL/TANFL and NTFA premiers, with the NWFU joining in from 1954....

 on ten occasions.

Last season (1941)

The Canaries' final season of football was the 1941 TANFL Season

1941 TANFL season

The 1941 Tasmanian Australian National Football League premiership season was an Australian Rules football competition staged in Hobart, Tasmania over fourteen roster rounds and two finals series matches between 10 May and 20 September, 1941....

 under coach J.Cashmore. The club would go into recess due to World War Two, and, in 1944, TANFL executives drew up a plan to turn the competition into a regulated, district-based format upon resumption of the League in 1945, rather than the previous motley collection of clubs.

As a result of these changes, Cananore was replaced in the TANFL by the Hobart Football Club

Hobart Football Club

Hobart Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in Hobart, Tasmania. They play their home fixtures at the TCA Ground on the Queens Domain, in Hobart and from 2009, the club has been a member of the Tasmanian State League.- Club history :...

 who would go on to share the same black and gold colours, same home ground (TCA Ground

TCA Ground

The TCA Ground, or Tasmanian Cricket Association Ground, is one of two First Class standard cricket grounds in Hobart, Tasmania in Australia...

) and many of the same players and supporters from Cananore would go on to be involved with Hobart for many years to come.

Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame

On 18 May 2010, AFL Tasmania

AFL Tasmania

AFL Tasmania is the governing body for Australian rules football in Tasmania.The organisation is responsible for game development in the state. The organisation recently became affiliated with the Australian Football League and was formerly known as Football Tasmania.The body is responsible for...

 announced that the Cananore Football Club and Hobart Football Club would be inducted together in the Great Clubs category of the Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame

Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame

The Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame was established to help recognise outstanding services and overall contribution made to the sport of Australian rules football in Tasmania. Any participant of the sport, including players, umpires, media personalities and coaches, may be inducted...

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VFL footballers

The most famous VFL footballer to have played for the club was Albert Collier

Albert Collier

Albert "Leeter" Collier was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League.-Playing career:...

; while others to have played include Claude Bryan

Claude Bryan

Dr. Claude Vivian Joseph Bryan was an Australian rules footballer who played with University and Melbourne in the Victorian Football League . He played with Cananore in the TFL both before and after his VFL career. Bryan also represented Tasmania at the 1911 Adelaide...

, Jack Cashman

Jack Cashman

Jack Cashman was an Australian rules footballer who played for Fitzroy and Carlton in the Victorian Football League .Cashman was used during his career mostly as a ruckman and forward...

, Jack Gardiner

Jack Gardiner

John Carlton 'Jack' Gardiner was an Australian rules footballer who played for Carlton and Melbourne in the Victorian Football League . He then became a successful coach in the Tasmanian Football League....

, Pat Hartnett

Pat Hartnett (footballer)

Pat Hartnett was an Australian rules footballer who played for St Kilda in the Victorian Football League during the 1930s.Hartnett came to St Kilda from North Launceston in Tasmania and returned to that club after just one VFL season. He then played with Cananore before trying again at St Kilda...

, Fred Pringle

Fred Pringle

Frederick Neville 'Fred' Pringle was an Australian rules footballer who played for Cananore in the Tasmanian Football League and Carlton in the Victorian Football League during the 1920s....

, Alan Scott

Alan G. Scott

Alan G. Scott was an Australian rules footballer who played for St Kilda in the Victorian Football League...

, Ted Terry

Ted Terry

Edward Richard "Ted" Terry was an outstanding all-round Tasmanian schoolboy athlete.He was an accomplished professional sprinter, and he also played Australian rules football in Tasmania before moving to the mainland and playing with St Kilda in the VFL, and with Prahran in the Victorian Football...

, and Graham Tudor.

TFL/TANFL premierships

• 1909, 1910, 1911, 1913, 1921, 1922, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1931, 1933

Tasmanian State Premierships

• 1909, 1910, 1911, 1913, 1921, 1922, 1925, 1926, 1927 http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/24208768 http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/24208766, 1931.

TFL Leading Goalkickers

• 1909 - F.Burton (11)
• 1910 - C.Ward (16)
• 1911 - C.Ward (24)
• 1913 - G.Badenach (13)
• 1924 - J.Brain (47)
• 1925 - J.Brain (64)
• 1926 - F.Ahearne (50)
• 1927 - F.Ahearne (45)