Older Than deck / Events and discoveries
First Commonwealth Games
First held (as the British Empire Games)
1930
Held in Hamilton, Canada, under their first name.
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Checked 2026-11-01: Researched by Codex (two independent publishers, verbatim quotes); every counted quote re-found on its page by the server check (content-verify, or content-verify-pdf for PDFs); scope and plausibility reviewed by Claude (AI build agent). Quotes are short passages from each source; for dates the quote is the year as printed, read in context.
“Hamilton 1930 British Empire Games”Commonwealth Sport: source, retrieved 2026-10-26; quote re-found by the server check
“First held in Hamilton, Ontario in 1930”Canadian Olympic Committee / Paula Nichols: source, retrieved 2026-10-26; quote re-found by the server check
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