President:
Paul Oliver
1st Vice-President:
Emmanuel Leblanc
2nd.
Vice-President: Linda Jimmo
Treasurer: Rick MacMichael
Secretary: Joe
Hatfield
Board of
Directors
In 1968 Sensei Robert
McInnes introduced the Art of Karate to New Brunswick for the first time at the
YMCA, Saint John.
Sensei McInnes studied Karate in
Scotland before immigrating to Canada in July 1968. Karate was a new phenomenon
and it wasn't long before it spread to Nova Scotia, from these two Provinces
the Maritime Karate Association was formed. Karate started to take off, in
those early years Bruce Lee was a Martial Art sensation and a major reason for
karate’s success in growing. It soon became evident by 1972 that each
Province needed to take time to develop on their own.
In
1972 The New Brunswick Karate Association was formed.
Sensei McInnes continued to develop Karate in the South,
while in the North Sensei Alcide Bourque who had returned home in 1970 to
Shediac from Toronto where he had learned karate continued developing Karate in
the North.
At that time Chito-Ryu was the only style of
karate in New Brunswick, Tsuruoka Sensei is well known, as the father of Karate
in Canada and Sensei Bourque is his student.
Sensei
McInnes became a student of Higashi Sensei in 1970
From
1972 to 1986 the Association was known as the New Brunswick Karate Association
In 1986 It became incorporated and was given a new name, Karate Nouveau / New
Brunswick.
Today there are six karate groups that form KNB:
- Chito-Ryu, Sensei Robert McInnes
- Gogu-Ryu, Sensei Sly Lessard
- Shintora-Kai Canada, Sensei Paul Oliver
- Tsuruoka, Sensei Oscar Leger
- Wado-Ryu Sensei Bob Edgett
Karate Nouveau / New
Brunswick is recognized by The Province of Nouveau / New Brunswick through the
Department of Culture and Sport. KNB has over 600 members and is a member of
the National Karate Association.
The
benefits that are offered by Karate New Brunswick as an Association are:
- Recognition by Sport N.B., Sport
Canada, & the Coaching Association of Canada.
- WE offer full Instructor, Student and
dojo liability, and full accident insurance, on all registered
members.
- Participation in Provincial, National
& International competitions.
- KNB Referee Program.
- KNB Board of Directors represent all
Karate styles in all Provincial Zones.
- National Coaching Certification Program
(NCCP)
- Karate Nouveau / New Brunswick has
bilingual services.
- KNB recognizes the styles of Okinawa or
Japanese tradition or decent.
- Karate is an official sport at the Pan
Am Games.
- KNB has policies in place to protect
the health and welfare of it's members.
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