The Canadian Football League (CFL) played an all-star game regularly during the 1950s and 1970s and twice in the 1980s.
After the 1956 contest, five players that played in the game (four from the Saskatchewan Roughriders and one from the Winnipeg Blue Bombers) were killed when Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810 crashed in what was then the worst air disaster in Canadian history.
Two more CFL All-Star Games were played, in the 1980s: a post-season contest in December 1983 (held indoors in Vancouver), pitting East and West; and a June 1988 game between the CFL All-Stars and the hometown Edmonton Eskimos.
The remaining six games featured a CFL All-Star team versus the defending Grey Cup champion.
The league team won four of these games, with the Calgary Stampeders and Ottawa Rough Riders each winning once.