<P> The Canadian Football League has teams in all seven current NHL markets, in addition to Hamilton, Ontario and Regina, Saskatchewan . At least eight of these nine markets have hosted CFL teams every year since the league's officially listed inception in 1958, and no other Canadian market has ever had a CFL team of its own . In 2015, the CFL commenced Northern Kickoff, originally slated to be one preseason game and later expanded to a regular season game as well, both of which were played in Fort McMurray, an oil sands boomtown with a metro area population of less than 70,000, the smallest market to host major professional football in the modern era . Fort McMurray is in relatively close proximity to Edmonton, which was expected to boost attendance, but fewer than 5,000 fans attended the regular season game . A regular season game was played in Moncton in 2010, 2011 and 2013 to gauge expansion to the Maritime provinces in what was called Touchdown Atlantic . Hamilton played most of their 2013 season in Guelph during the construction of Tim Hortons Field . </P> <P> Some U.S. - based leagues, like MLB, MLS, and the NBA, have awarded franchises to Canadian cities, though outside of Toronto most teams have been unsuccessful . </P> <P> The first Major League Baseball team in Canada was the Montreal Expos who began play in 1969 . In 2005, they moved to Washington, D.C. and became the Washington Nationals . The Toronto Blue Jays, who began play in 1977, became the first team outside the United States to win the World Series in 1992 and 1993 . </P> <P> The NBA expanded into Toronto in 1995 when the Raptors joined the league . That same year, the Vancouver Grizzlies began play, but moved to Memphis in 2001 . </P>

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