Why Cricket didn't work out in NA?

Question

I love sports have my entire life, I was born and raised in Toronto, Canada which is one of the most multi-cultured centres of the world, I had a friend from Guyana who immigrated to Canada and he was obsessed with Cricket he'd constantly send me Cricket highlights over msn, and tell me about the West Indies team whenever he got the chance, but I was just thinking today the British brought Cricket and other games such as Rugby to all there territory's hundreds of years ago such as Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, and South Africa. But why not Canada? It was under British control before any of these countries I believe, so why didn't it work like it did in these countries?

Americanism? I've heard the climate be used before but it only snows about 4 months of the year, what are your thoughts?

Answer 1

Hard to say. Maybe the British influence wasn't as strong as other influences. You can't blame the climate, look at Englands weather! lol. Maybe it would take a group of people such as yourself to get it up & running properly?

Answer 2

Don't forget that there was a strong French influence in Canada and then they have all those septics on the other side of the border.

Answer 3

The influence from the US would have been stronger than the British as the Americans are directly south and the British across the atlantic. As for Canadians playing "real" sports and not cricket proves my point on where they get their influence from.  

Answer 4

Because we were intelligent enough to engage in real sports.