Ten types of sports were featured at the Victoria Games: athletics, aquatics, badminton, boxing, cycling, gymnastics, lawn bowls, shooting, weightlifting, and wrestling.

In the presence of Prince Edward, the Athletes had a long march past to their seated area (an idea created four years previously and emulated since at the 2014 Games in Glasgow).

Welcome speeches and flag raisings were followed by a precision horse riding display by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

A visual and theatrical display by the Four Nations Tribes culminated in a massive Thunderbird symbol covering the entire inner field.

*   Host nation (Canada)The official mascot of the Games was an anthropomorphic killer whale named "Klee Wyck".

The chairperson of the boxing committee was Hassan Sunderani, and the initial members were Brian Zelley, Glyn Jones and Mike Sartori.

In the initial stages, of the committee one of the immediate tasks was to prepare a guide as to what was expected at the Games, and to document some history of amateur boxing in the Greater Victoria area.

Preliminary coverage of the 13 May meeting included a piece titled "Approaching Games to lift amateur boxing's profile".

The reporter Jeff Rud interviewed Games official John Stothart and boxing committee members Mike Sartori and Brian Zelley.