Temporary
Closure
Background
The Sports Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador (SANL) is part of The Provincial Archives of Newfoundland
and Labrador. Its mandate is to collect, preserve, arrange
and describe materials relating to professional and amateur sporting
activities in Newfoundland and Labrador. The archives will also
make available for public use, textual materials, photographs,
sound recordings, and related archival and printed matter that
document the history of sport in this province.
From 1974 until his death in 1991, Frank Graham served as the
Volunteer Sports Archivist, accumulating an extensive variety
of sports history and memorabilia. The archives was closed following
his death, but under the impetus of Gail Roberts, then Chair of
the Newfoundland and Labrador Sports Hall of Fame Committee, organization
of the material recommenced with funding from the Canadian
Council of Archives (CCA).
Archival Holdings
The archives consists of personal and business correspondence,
scrapbooks, over 5,000 photographs relating to Newfoundland and
Labrador sports and sports personalities, clippings documenting
Newfoundland sports history, ephemera, minute books, record books,
financial statements, and other sports organizational records
from approximately 1820 to the present.
The following are just a small sample of the images in the SANL
holdings. Simply click on the thumbnail image to be taken to a
larger version.
If you are interested in acquiring any of these images, please contact
us for more information.
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Brigus Bruins Hockey Team
c. 1922 (SANL 1.26.01274)
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C. & D. Pike, Canada
Games Gold Medal
c.1979 (SANL1.20.03.003)
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Sleigh Races, Quidi Vidi
c. 1922 (SANL 1.27.007)
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Catherine Cotter crossing
the finish line at Rennies Bridge
c. 1938 (SANL 1.39.02.001)
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C. Lawrence winning 100
yard dash at Bell Island
c. 1936 (SANL 1.48.066)
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1st Herder Trophy winners
Corner Brook
c. 1935, (SANL 1.26.01.155)
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Baseball in Grand Falls
c.1947 (SANL 1.3.077)
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St. John's Regatta
c.1959 (SANL 1.502.175)
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Tennis Champs, St. John's
c. 1950 (JV Rabbitt)
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Field Hockey Bronze Medal
Winners, Canada Games
c. 1977 (SANL 1.106.0.19)
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Fortune High Soccer Team
c. 1956 (SANL 1.41.01.216)
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Building a racing shell
for the St. John's Regatta
c. 1920's (SANL 1.502.120)
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Finding Aids/Publications
Finding aids will become available as series are processed. A
Guide to the Holdings is available and was up-dated in 2000. It
is available in the Main Reference Room at PANL.
Exhibits
Women in
Sports, Newfoundland & Labrador Pre 1949
Location and Contacts
Linda Murphy & Frances Horwood - Volunteer Archivists
Room 18
Colonial Building
Military Road
St. John's, NL
A1B 4J6
phone: (709) 729-0591
SANL@mail.gov.nl.ca
