A planned new basketball attraction in St. Stephen is getting a boost from a hometown philanthropist.
Bruce Buchanan gives boost to campaign to create ‘experience centre’ next to old court
Jordan Gill · CBC News
· Posted: Oct 18, 2026 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago
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A artist’s rendering of what the Basketball Experience Centre will look like, next to what centre promoters believe is the world’s oldest surviving basketball court. (Worlds Oldest Basketball Court)
A planned new basketball attraction in St. Stephen is getting a boost from a hometown philanthropist.
Bruce Buchanan grew up in the border town that is home to a 19th-century basketball court, believed to be one of the oldest surviving courts in the world.
Buchanan has donated $3 million to help build the Basketball Experience Centre next to the building that houses the court.
“My grandfather always used to say to me that if you can, you should,” said Buchanan, who owned a successful forest products company and now lives in B.C.
“I could, and so I wanted to help.”
David Ganong, a board member for the project,
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