Sports and Recreation
In 1906, a hockey team from Smiths Falls launched an unsuccessful challenge to win the Stanley Cup. Smiths Falls was home to a professional baseball team, the Smiths Falls Beavers, for one season in 1937. The team was a part of the Canadian-American League.
The town is currently home to the Junior A hockey team Smiths Falls Bears, who play in the Central Canada Hockey League.
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Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen,
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One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;”
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