Eastern Ontario Rugby Union

the eastern ontario rugby union (eoru) is a regional branch union of rugby ontario and serves as the administrative body for the sport of rugby in napanee, kingston, brockville, cornwall, lanark, petawawa and ottawa, canada. the eoru was incorporated in 1979 but can trace its roots back to the early 1950′s when the very first club in eastern ontario was formed. the bytown beavers, now known as the ottawa beavers and banshees, played its first match against westmount (montreal) at ashbury college in ottawa. in the 1960′s interest in the sport started to take hold and some members of the bytown beavers split off to form the ottawa indians and ottawa irish. the very first game between two eastern ontario clubs took place in september 1962, when the beavers defeated the indians 6 to 3. the addition of these new clubs helped to further advance rugby as the sport of choice and provide more opportunity for players to join and grow. the objectives of eoru remain much the same today: to promote