Shelby Thevenot

French traveller, Quentin Le Boursicaud, works at the Ministry of Cricket and Other Homeless Sports in Montreal. 

His job is to help set up, take down, and referee games and sports that have no other place to go.

Bubble soccer may not be as popular as soccer played without an inflatable body suit, but for Steven Lang and Chelsea Pottage it was their idea of a jack and jill party. 

Chelsea wiggles herself into the large bubble. She normally plays soccer but this will be her first time playing bubble soccer. 

The rules are essentially the same, only the "bubble" adds a mobility obstacle. 

Chelsea and her fiancé Steven Lang face off on opposite teams. She is wearing a pinny and he is not.

With the layers of the translucent toruses between them, it is difficult to distinguish who is on what team from inside the bubble.

Some other places put the team colours on a stripe on the outside to help with this problem. 

Friends and family came to play. Most of them reported not being very athletic. Boardgames were more their speed.

Clusters happen often where a bunch of players will wind up together. The game becomes more about trying to knock each other over so someone can score.

Though most times when players find themselves flipped upside down they are able to push themselves back over, this time Steven's sister-in-law Maria Lang stepped in to offer a push.

"I'm dying!"

Bubble soccer is exhausting. After only a few minutes of running around in the plastic bubble players are tired Quentin observes.

Part of Quentin's job is disinfecting the bubbles after every use.

During the winter months a group of dedicated cricket players come to the Ministry of Cricket and Other Homeless Sports to keep their skills sharp.

Though the team cannot play outdoors in the winter they practice inside.

They practice with a batsman, bowler, and wicket-keeper. 

Donald Anthony takes off his helmet after practicing his batting skills. Batsmen use the helmets to protect their heads from fast bowlers who can throw a ball anywhere from 130-160 km/hr. 

There are three types of bowlers: fast, medium and slow (also called "spinners.")

Batsmen may also wear the helmet for medium pacers who can throw balls at 100-130 km/hr.

For a spinner they usually wear a cap.

Mian Abdul Shakoor plays with the Montreal Eagles at Jarry Park in the summer months.

Today he plays as a bowler.

Mian Abdul Shakoor is taking a start to deliver another ball of his over. 

An "over" is the term used to classify six legal deliveries done by one bowler. 

The captain of the Montreal Eagles, Gurjit Sidhu, poses with his bat in hand. 

A pair of cricket gloves and a bat lain on the turf.

The batsman wear these gloves to protect their hands. 

After J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter book series became popular people started being interested in playing Quidditch. 

The game came from the imagination of the beloved children's author, and can now be seen today at the sports complex.

Though given that those who play in Canada are generally muggles, non-wizarding folk, players have to obey the laws of physics. 

Quidditch is played with several different balls. The volley ball in this case is the "Quaffle," used for scoring. The players that handle the Quaffle are called "Chasers." The other balls seen here are "Bludgers" used for knocking opponents off their broomsticks. The players that throw the Bludgers at Chasers are called, "Beaters."

If a muggle player gets hit with a "Bludger" that player must run back to their net and touch one of the rings in order to get back in the game. If the Chaser is holding the Quaffle the player must drop it. 

The game starts with a whistle and a mad dash to grab the Quaffles and Bludgers. 

Seen here a Chaser about to be hit by a Bludger. 

Muggle Chasers differ from Witch or Wizard chasers in that their broomsticks are considerably smaller and less airborne. 

But whether Quidditch is played by magical folk or not it is a rough sport and players often get hurt.

Here Raphaël Dumais, who has played Quidditch for three years as a chaser and a seeker, takes a moment to recover from a knee injury.

As the invention of the flying golden Snitch is slow coming, a very fast player wears yellow pants and stuffs them with a sock and ball. 

The Seekers must then try and take the ball out of the Snitch's shorts thus ending the game and granting the victorious Seeker's team 150 points.

This time the team that caught the Snitch won the game. 

Though it is not always the case. Catching the Snitch just signals the end of the game plus 150 points.

If the team who catches the Snitch is over 150 points behind their opponents then the team with the most points wins. 

Félix Tremblay, a chaser of five years who occasionally plays for Team Canada, stands at the head of the line to shake hands with the opposing team.