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Canada's First Baseball Game,
In Beachville, Ontario, a baseball game was played (near Woodstock). It was founded seven years before Cartwright's New York Knickerbockers and the "New York game," which featured nine men on the field. September 5, 1914

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Percy Page coached the Edmonton Grads, a women's championship basketball team from 1915 to 1940. The Grads won 95 percent of their games over their 25-year tenure as a franchise. The Grads were national and international champions, regularly defeating their opponents by large margins. The squad was undefeated in 24 matches staged in conjunction with the Olympic Summer Games in 1924, 1928, and 1936, and won the Underwood International Trophy (USA–Canada) for 17 years in a row (1923–1940). In 2017, the Grads were inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.

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Following the death of its predecessor league, the National Hockey Association, the National Hockey League (NHL) was created in 1917. (NHA). A majority of the NHA franchises the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, and Quebec Bulldogs suspended the NHA and founded the new NHL in order to oust Eddie Livingstone as owner of the Toronto Blueshirts. While a member, the Quebec Bulldogs did not play in the NHL for the first two years.

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During the 1920s, the NHL expanded from a three-team league to a ten-team league, with more teams joining along the way. The 1920s were also violent, as protection was rarely worn, leading to the addition of more padding and equipment to the game during the next few decades. Some awards were also manufactured in the 1920s.

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At the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, Belgium, the Winnipeg Falcons won the first Olympic gold medal in hockey as well as the first international world championship. At the first Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix, France, in 1924, the Toronto Granites defeated all opponents to win Canada's second Olympic gold medal in hockey. In 1928, the University of Toronto Grads won another gold medal for Canada in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

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Canada’s Best Ever Olympic Boxing Medal Haul, Canada has won 17 Olympic medals throughout the twentieth century. The most medals were gained at the first Games where Canadian boxers competed, in Antwerp 1920, when they won five medals in the eight events on the schedule.

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Historical lacrosse is played on a field with players catching, carrying, passing, and shooting a little rubber ball into the opposing team's goal using sticks with netting attached at one end, called the fastest game on two feet by a Baltimore Sun sportswriter in 1921.

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On September 21, 1929, Gerry Seiberling threw the first legal pass in Canada, and Ralph Losie of the Calgary Altomah-Tigers received the first legal reception. Jersey Regina's Jack Campbell threw the first forward pass in a Grey Cup game, and Jerry Erskine caught it. On September 28, 1929, Edmonton's Joe Cook threw the first touchdown pass to Pal Power in the second quarter of a game against the University of Alberta. Joe Hess of the University of Alberta had the first interception return for a touchdown in the same game, when he caught a throw from Cook.

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Individual provincial rugby unions controlled the English code of rugby in Canada for many years, taking administrative orders from the RFU in England before eventually running under the Rugby Union of Canada from 1929 to 1939, when it was stopped by WWII. In 1929, the Rugby Union of Canada was established, followed by a Canadian team's tour to Japan.