The Toronto Blue Jays have put a new spin on “We The North.”
With help from Jays Care Foundation, the club has helped bring a brand-new baseball diamond to Arctic Bay, Nunavut - a place now recognized as home to the world’s northernmost diamond.
Arctic Bay, a small town on northern Baffin Island with a population of just over 1,000, was one of 16 communities selected in the Blue Jays’ 2022 Jays Care Field of Dreams program. The team contributed a $50,000 donation to help build the field, which sits nearly 2,000 miles from Rogers Centre. Local communities covered the remaining funding.
Now that the project is complete, baseball has reached a remote corner of Canada that sits farther north than nearly anywhere else in the world. Outside of Canada, only Russia and Denmark, which owns Greenland, have land farther north than Arctic Bay.
Building the diamond was no simple job. The site was far from Toronto and even farther from the kind of diamond-building resources usually taken for granted. Representatives from Ontario-based Synthetic Turf International had to travel to the community to do the work, and once there they faced hilly ground and had to truck in gravel to level the area at the base of a mountain.
The finished field includes turf, team benches and bleachers for fans. Set against the rocky landscape near Baffin Bay, it stands out as a striking addition to the area.
The interest in baseball up north is real, too. Last fall, Iqaluit - the capital of Nunavut - made headlines when The Storehouse Bar became a gathering place for fans cheering on Toronto during its World Series run.
The Arctic Bay project may sit outside the Blue Jays’ usual charitable footprint, but it fits squarely within the mission of Jays Care Foundation, which works to level the playing field for children and youth in Canada through baseball. The Field of Dreams program is run each year, with towns and cities across the country applying for more than $2.5 million in TD grants to improve local baseball infrastructure.
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