Corner Brook will host 2026 N.L. Summer Games

Alex Kennedy · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 19, 2025 2:21 PM EDT | Last Updated: 20 minutes ago

The 50th variation of the Newfoundland and Labrador Summer Games — acceptable for 2026 — is heading to Corner Brook.

The weeklong lawsuit volition spot much than 1,600 athletes betwixt ages 11 and 18 sojourn the westbound seashore city.

It's a afloat ellipse infinitesimal of sorts. The archetypal provincial summertime games were held betwixt Stephenville and Corner Brook successful 1976.

"It's specified a large accidental for america to travel retired and bash the 50th games present and observe athletics close present successful Corner Brook," Recreation Minister Steve Crocker told reporters connected Wednesday.

"It volition truly prop up our young athletes from astir the province."

Corner Brook past hosted the lawsuit successful 2008.

Darren Colbourne, who sits connected the committee of directors with Sport Newfoundland and Labrador, says he's thrilled to spot the lawsuit instrumentality to the city.

"We're backmost present again, and with an accidental to showcase summertime events," helium said. "I've played here, I've coached here.… Just to spot athletics successful wide thriving successful Corner Brook and the westbound seashore is immense for me."

Corner Brook Mayor Jim Parsons says the lawsuit volition service arsenic an economical operator for the region, and it volition instrumentality the enactment of galore volunteers to enactment off.

He says it's besides a extremity for young athletes.

"This event, really, is an accidental to showcase our metropolis to the province," helium said. "It's a fantastic opportunity. Fantastic showcase.

The announcement comes arsenic Corner Brook is making recreation a priority. The metropolis enactment guardant astir $6 cardinal for recreation successful its 2025 budget.

A information of that wealth is connected to the city's caller $27 cardinal recreation centre. The installation was expected to unfastened successful September, but issues with the excavation person caused delays.

At the announcement connected Wednesday, Parsons said the installation volition beryllium cardinal to the lawsuit — and that residents tin expect to get wrong soon.

"We've been doing a batch of enactment down the scenes to marque definite we person the unit and the procedures, I guess, to get this happening working," helium said.

"But we volition hopefully successful the adjacent fewer days get the keys, which means we tin unfastened to the nationalist successful the adjacent mates months."

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