History
The
game of Bunnock was first introduced to Canada by the Russian Germans.
There are several versions of how the game originated. One of them is
that the game was developed in the early 1800's by the Russian military.
Some old timers remember stories told by their elders relating how the
Russian soldiers posted in the frozen tundra of northern Siberia, found
the time endless. To help pass the time they tried to play horseshoes,
but all too often they found it impossible to drive a peg into the
frozen ground. With a little ingenuity, or was it sheer luck or boredom,
some of the Russian soldiers discovered that the ankle bones of a horse
could be set up on the frozen ground and so a new game called Bunnock
(Bones) was born.