a game of bowls, first played in 1909, in which the players attempt to knock over five pins, each of different scoring value, by rolling three large balls, one at a time, down an alley.
- 1929  A successful five pin bowling season was concluded at a banquet held in the Georgian Restaurant. . . .
- 1957  An estimated 1,000,000 Canadian players are engaged in fivepin bowling as this truly native Canadian game gets into full swing on some 7,000 alleys across the country.