The Halifax Wanderers, based in Halifax

City of Halifax

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, Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia

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, Canada

Canada

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 were the amateur athletic teams of the Wanderers Amateur Athletic Club, organized in 1882, and in existence until 1982.

History

The Club was founded by members of the Wanderer's Cricket Team in 1882. It was initially active in cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

, track and field

Track and field

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 and rugby football

Rugby football

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. The Wanderers had their own playing field, known as Wanderers Grounds

Wanderers Grounds

The Wanderers Grounds were originally part of the Halifax Commons. The land was used in the 1880s by the Halifax Wanderers Amateur Athletic Club and was their home grounds for the sports of rugby, lawn bowling and others...

, which still exists today. A field house was built in 1896 on the city-owned grounds, which were leased for $100 per year. The field house was destroyed by fire in 1938.

The WAAC disbanded in 1982, and its assets reverted to the City of Halifax

City of Halifax

Halifax is a city in Canada, which was the capital of the province of Nova Scotia and shire town of Halifax County. It was the largest city in Atlantic Canada until it was amalgamated into Halifax Regional Municipality in 1996...

. A new WAAC was founded in 2009 by the combined Halifax Rugby Football Club and the Halifax Tars Rugby Football Club.

Ice hockey

The Wanderers sponsored an ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

team, which won the Starr Halifax Championships twice in the 1890s, and won the Maritime amateur championship in 1898.