2019 Canada Winter Games
February 14th, 2019 to March 3rd, 2019
Featuring 19 sports, over 150 events and a major arts and cultural festival, the 2019 Canada Winter Games will welcome up to 3,600 athletes, managers and coaches and more than 20,000 visitors.
The 2019 Games will be the largest...
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2018 NWT Sport Hall of Fame Inductees Announced.
Sport North is excited to announce that there will be three new inductees into the...
KidSport NWT issues $33,500 in Community Equipment Grants across the Northwest Territories.
The KidSport NWT Committee is excited to announce that they received 23 Community Equipment Grants...
NWTVA Announces Team NT Volleyball Coaching Staff for the 2019 Western Canada Summer Games
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NWT Sport Hall of Fame
Father J.M. Mouchet (2013)
Cross Country Skiing
Father Mouchet played an instrumental role introducing the sport of cross country skiing to the North in the 1950s and beyond. Father Mouchet was an Oblate priest who came to Northern Canada in 1946, from his hometown of Malbuisson, France. He was initially posted in Telegraph Creek, BC, but then was posted to Old Crow, Inuvik, Whitehorse and Ross River.
While living in Inuvik, Father Mouchet founded the Territorial Experimental Ski Training (TEST) Program. This program was supported by the NWT Government to develop an outdoor education program in Inuvik. The TEST program grew to...
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