No lacrosse in New Westminster?
It was big news in 1916 when the B.C. Lacrosse Association, for the most sobering of reasons, chose to call a halt to the sport.
The association, meeting in New West's Russell Hotel, passed a resolution to suspend operations until after the war, as the Pacific Canadian reported on April 21, 1916.
The resolution expressed the hope that all challenges for the Minto Cup — then held by New Westminster — would be barred until after the war.
The Royal City's senior amateurs, who had won the Mann Cup the previous year, also decided to suspend operations "until the warring nations cease their hostilities," as the newspaper reported.
They had no way of knowing that it would be more than two-and-a-half years before the end of that war.
New Westminster is a city full of history — and that history includes a variety of community newspapers over its many decades.
In this weekly series, we're taking a look back at the headlines from some of those newspapers, shining a spotlight each week on a notable news story, person or moment from this week in New West history.
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