The squad was chosen following a week-long selection camp at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas and will be led by three-time Paralympic champion Tracey Ferguson, part of the Canadian gold medal winning teams at Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000.

Ferguson is joined by seven other players with Paralympic experience while five of the squad, including Ferguson, Elaine Allard, Katie Harnock, Janet McLachlan and Cindy Ouellet, will be out to better their bronze medal form the last World Championships in Birmingham in 2010.

Erica Gavel, Melanie Hawtin and Darda Sales have been selected to the national team for the first time while Amanada Yan, Jamey Jewells, Maude Jacques and Tamara Steeves complete the line-up for the Championships which is due to take place at the Mattamy Athletic Centre from June 20 to 28 next year.

The team will be coached by Johnson who will be assisted by Michael Broughton.

"We are very excited with the group of athletes that will be representing Canada at the World Championships this summer at home in Canada," said Johnson.

"The selection process was made challenging by the outstanding group of athletes in attendance.

"We have a great bunch of young athletes, in addition to a returning core of talented veterans.

" I feel this team will represent Canada well this year, and will be an exciting group as we work toward the 2016 Rio Paralympics gold medal."

The experienced three-time Paralympic champion Tracey Ferguson (right) will lead the Canadian team in Toronto ©Getty Images



























In Birmingham  four years ago Canada, who won consecutive world titles from 1994 to 2006, finished behind the United States and Germany. 

Both those nations are once again expected to provide the biggest obstacles to a home win while London 2012 silver and bronze medallists Australia and the Netherlands will also be among the medal hopefuls.

This year's World Championships will be the largest yet with Brazil, China, France, Great Britain, Japan, Mexico and Peru making up the 12-team tournament.

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