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Can-Am
DCHP-2 (Mar 2016)
Spelling variants:CanAm
adj. — generally Sports
designating an event as affiliated with Canada and the US or as open to players with citizenship in either or both countries; Canadian-American.
Type: 5. Frequency — The abbreviation Can-Am is used to classify an event or occasion as open to Canadian (Can) and American (Am) participation (see the 1955 and 1999 quotations). Accordingly, the term Can-Am is used to designate a variety of sports leagues, such as hockey (see the 1931 quotation), basketball (see the 1999 quotation) or baseball (see the 2014 quotation). Moreover, Can-Am appears to also be used to describe players who are both Canadian and American in nationality (see the 1961 quotation). The term Can-Am commonly occurs in newspaper headlines, likely due to its brevity. Note that the abbreviation Can-Am is also commonly used to refer specifically to the Canadian-American Challenge Cup, a sports car racing series held from 1966 to 1987 (see Can-Am reference). As Chart 1 shows, the term is used more often in Canada when compared to the US, making this a Canadianism by virtue of frequency.
See also COD-2, s.v. "Can-Am", which is marked "Cdn".
See also COD-2, s.v. "Can-Am", which is marked "Cdn".
Quotations
1898
He likewise appeared with the Can.-Am. 4 oar crew, which succeeded in defeating Bubear's Eng. crew.
1931
"OBS" HEXIMER LEADS "CAN-AM" GOAL-GETTERS" [...] The Springfield Indians' lead over the Providence Reds, last season's Canadian-American Hockey League champions, was cut in half during the past week when the New York Rangers' farm lost its first two games of the season.
1940
Can-Am Arbiter is Millionaire [...] A millionaire who loves baseball will be calling balls and strikes in the Canadian-American Class "C" league this year.
1955
Bridgman's Win Can-Am Ladies Cage Laurels [...] Toronto Bridgman's won the first championship of the Canadian-American Girls' Basketball League Saturday, completing a string of three wins in the six-team final tournament with two wins at Central Memorial Community Centre.
1961
CFL Rewords Rule Regarding Can-Am players [...] Canadian professional football's controversial, incompatible, and at times even ridiculous rule permitting certain United States players to compete as Canadians because of birth or parentage, has been amended, but not eliminated.
1967
With the end of January as the deadline for contracts and deposits for Can-Am dates, the CASC is considering giving the Sept. 23rd weekend to Montreal Motor Racing Club to run the Player's Quebec on that Sunday. This would leave BEMC without a race on the 23rd at Mosport, because drivers would naturally go in the lucrative Can-Am event at St. Jovite.
1970
Toronto-based cars ready for Can-Am [...] New Zealanders Bruce McLaren and Dennis Hulme, perennial winners of the Canadian-American challenge cup series, are again demonstrating the first rule of their success.
1979
A native of Halifax, [Jamie Bone] was the 1978 recipient of the Hec Crighton Trophy as the country's outstanding collegiate player while attending the University of Western Ontario in London, Ont. He also has participated in both Can-Am Bowl games, in which Canada's top collegiate stars play a U.S. squad representing National Collegiate Athletic Association schools.
1989
Mount Royal Cougars defeated Bellevue, Wash., 49-47 to finish third Saturday in the eight-team Can-Am Classic women's college tournament at Tucson, Ariz.
1999
Windsor's Adam Guiney and his Basketball Ontario teammates made history Sunday in winning the Can-Am Basketball Tournament in Niagara Falls, New York. Guiney was named the tournament MVP against top flight competition from Buffalo, Syracuse, Detroit, Cleveland, Toronto and Montreal.
2014
The franchise scheduled to take the field at Ottawa Stadium in 2015 in the Canadian American Association of Professional Baseball League (Can-Am) unveiled on Thursday the dual logos featuring the combination of a baseball, the Peace Tower at Parliament Hill and a maple leaf, along with a large O.
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