Canada Historical List of Caps

List of Canada Caps from 1932 to 2023

ESPN Rugby was a great resource for finding historical information on Canadian Rugby. In 2021 they focused their attention on the Tier 1 nations and the historical information on Tier 2 countries like Canada has been getting harder to find.

I thought it prudent to copy their list of Canada caps before it also drops off the internet. They stopped updating the list in 2021. Jason Higgins is the last player they entered. I’ve reached out to Rugby Canada to see what they maintain and if it’s publicly accessible. Even the ESPN list omits players from Canada’s first tour of 1902-1903, we’ll try to rectify that as we have the information. There is a Wiki article that does continue the list, although unlike the ESPN archive it doesn’t link to specific matches. It can be found at List of Canada national rugby union players

ESPN used to have a full list of Canada matches but a recent search hasn’t been able to find that, if a reader does come across it or has a link to other repositories, please add to the comments section. The best we’ve found so far is the Wiki article, List of Canada national rugby union team test matches

Then there’s the issue of caps for the women’s teams, the 7s teams, feel free to list links in the comments.

List taken from http://en.espn.co.uk/scrum/rugby/player/caps.html?team=25

Updates from Wiki

The Wiki article adds one cap the ESPN article doesn’t have which is why the count skips one when going from ESPN to Wiki, that record on Wiki is Charlie Jones 1987. The ESPN article for that match only includes the starting XV.