History Question

[pete_norw 0]

Which year did we become known as the Canaries, and how did we get the name ?

[Lincs CR 0]

You''ve got me on the year... but wasn''t the nickname derived becuase the City itself became renowned for its breeding of the bird for coal mine purposes?

[pete_norw 0]

[quote user="Lincs CR"]You''ve got me on the year... but wasn''t the nickname derived becuase the City itself became renowned for its breeding of the bird for coal mine purposes?[/quote]

Almost there Lincs keep on thinking,

[I am a Banana 0]

1926 was the year

[scrimmage 0]

Wiki says first appearance of the name was in 1905, but doesn''t know why we were called it. Lincs you could be right!

[Mason 47 1,911]

Wasnt it that we had a manager that was well known for his keeping of canaries, and through the media this somehow became that we changed from ''The Citizens'' to ''The Canaries'' and a change of kit colour also followed?

[scrimmage 0]

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[quote user="Lincs CR"]You''ve got me on the year... but wasn''t the nickname derived becuase the City itself became renowned for its breeding of the bird for coal mine purposes?[/quote]

Almost there Lincs keep on thinking,

[/quote]Oh I thought it was a genuine question you didn''t know! Go on tell us...

[barclay46 0]

[quote user="Lincs CR"]You''ve got me on the year... but wasn''t the nickname derived becuase the City itself became renowned for its breeding of the bird for coal mine purposes?[/quote]

[pete_norw 0]

[quote user="scrimmage"][quote user="pete_norw"]

[quote user="Lincs CR"]You''ve got me on the year... but wasn''t the nickname derived becuase the City itself became renowned for its breeding of the bird for coal mine purposes?[/quote]

Almost there Lincs keep on thinking,

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Oh I thought it was a genuine question you didn''t know! Go on tell us...

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1905 is the year, and yes, we had a manager who bread them, His wife said at the time "your team are flying around like your Canaries". here endeth the first lesson  

[Niaga Dessip 0]

Indeed, 1905 saw City''s first professional match. To quote from Ted Bell''s history of the club - On the Ball City -

"At that stage they were known as the ''Cits'' or ''Citizens'' (it took a year or two for association with the Norwich canary to arrive and the club began their career playing in blue and white halves, blue shorts)." Yellow and green was first worn in 1907/8, the season before they moved from Newmarket Road to The Nest.

[Binky 0]

Quite right. Think it was the immigrant settlers from the Low Countries that introduced Norwich to canary breeding. (They used to be needed down in the mines and on board narrow boats - ie if they stopped singing you had a problem...). Thus the name came before the yellow and green colours. I always understood the colours came to fit the nickname - not the other way around.

[Karl Pilkington 0]

I seem to remember from the centenary DVD they said that when they asked the new City manager what he knew of the place he said "not a lot, but I know they like cananries" as this was a popular past time at the time.

He then kept referring to the team as the Canaries and it stuck.

I don''t think I''ve just made that up.

[Houston Canary 0]

Breeding canaries was a local fad back in the early part of the 20th Century, so that is why Norwich City became the Canaries. While I like the color scheme, it would have been better for a team name if the locals were into something like hawks, broncos, tigers or grizzley bears.

[William Darby 0]

I was always of the impression that this area has been a hotbed of canary fanciers for a number of decades going back to the Dutch immigrants who brought them with them.  And like every nice thing immigrants bring with them ''locals'' embrace it and after a while Norwich was the place for canary breeding and exporting of domestic canaries and coal mine canaries. 

[Sam-NCFC 0]

[quote user="Houston Canary"]Breeding canaries was a local fad back in the early part of the 20th Century, so that is why Norwich City became the Canaries. While I like the color scheme, it would have been better for a team name if the locals were into something like hawks, broncos, tigers or grizzley bears.[/quote]''cause there''s loads of hawks, broncos (must admit, i don''t know what a bronco is though but i''m guessing there aren''t an abundance of them in Norwich.), tigers and grizzly bears in Norwich [;)]