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B.C. Place Stadium is getting its second-ever rugby haka.

The New Zealand Maori All Blacks will play against Canada on Nov. 3. Kickoff will be 7 p.m.

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“They celebrate where they come from better than anybody,” Rugby Canada’s Gareth Rees said.

Tickets, which start at $20, go on sale Aug. 11 through Ticketmaster.

Chief Wayne Sparrow of the Musqueam Nation said the support from Canadian rugby has been very influential in his community.

Since the launch of the Canada Sevens in 2015, visits to Musqueam by teams like Fiji have made a deep impact, he said.

“Sport’s huge in our community,” he said. “We’re trying to keep our kids focused with the opportunities that they have.”

“Hopefully we’re going to have more rugby but soccer is huge in our community.”

The Muqueam community has made strong investment in sports infrastructure, adding all-weather sports fields that have been used by the Whitecaps as well as rugby sevens teams. Last March, when snow closed many of the training pitches around the region ahead of the Canada Sevens, the Musqueam fields and gymnasium saw heavy use.