Beating Fools on the Cricket pitch since 1910…since 2023

In the late 1800’s, while everyone in Windsor Nova Scotia was arguing over who invented hockey, Mill Island also known as Nesbitt’s Island was home to the Windsor Cotton Mill, a tannery, two shipyards and “leaning tower of Windsor”.  By 1910 the mill was closed, the tower was really leaning, and the local kids had started calling their neighbourhood by a new name. - Poverty Point. We’re only guessing, but with a name like that it must have been full of peaky-blinders-like legends. Well meaning, big hearted bad asses looking out for each other and taking it to rival neighbourhoods. 

One of the shining stars to come out of Poverty Point was The Raggedy Ass Cricket Club. Armed with a bold name and flat sticks we don’t know what their record was, nor how many games they even played. What we do know is that this name and its energy are truly awesome. 

Somewhat self-deprecating. Perhaps a little sarcastic. You may even think it rude. But we see it as badass. Witty. Smart. Scrappy. With a touch of humour and chock full of pride. 

It’s like that come up story we all love. Only, this one’s real. Full of unlikely heroes and stragglers just the same. Mischief and hijinks. Winning and losing. Big hearts and big goals. Fumbling and dusting yourself off to go again. It reminds us that not everyone makes it but we all tried.

One author remarked that the boys in this photo all kept their team photo as a prized possession for their whole lives.  And it’s for all these reasons we’ve decided that it’s way past time to celebrate this story of authentic, scrappy living - even if it is more than a hundred years later.