Description
Book SynopsisServing as a foundation for critical discussion about the importance of the past,
Sport and Recreation in Canadian History covers the historical events, people, and moments that shape Canadian sport in the present and future. While this text focuses on sport and recreation practices on these lands now claimed by Canada, it is set within a larger historical context of interconnecting social and cultural practices to speak to the sustained tensions, complexities, and contradictions prevalent in Canadian society.
The editor, Dr. Carly Adams, and her 17 contributing experts from across Canada bring the latest research in all areas of Canadian sport history to life and present a thorough look at the nation’s past events. The text challenges the dominant narratives and encourages students to think critically about Canadian sport history. It examines how gender, ethnicity, race, religion, ability, class, and other systems of oppression and privilege have shaped sport
Trade Review“Sport and Recreation in Canadian History
sets a new direction for Canadian sport history. Its third-generation contributors challenge earlier categories and trajectories, and they account much more sensitively and comprehensively for the racially and culturally diverse society that Canada has been. They prepare us for the post–Truth and Reconciliation Canada that we urgently need to understand. It’s both illuminating and timely.”—Dr. Bruce Kidd, Professor at the University of Toronto
“The best sport and recreation histories educate us about the past while challenging us to recognize patterned inequities in opportunities for meaningful physical activities as part of broader societal patterns of colonization, privilege and discrimination. This collaborative textbook, Sport and Recreation in Canadian History
, written by leading Canadian sport historians, does that, thereby broadening the ways students can know Canadian sport and recreation but also themselves.”—Dr. Vicky Paraschak, Professor at the University of Windsor
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Sport and Recreation Histories Matter
Carly AdamsChapter 2. Methods and Theory in Historical Research
Sarah Barnes and Mary Louise AdamsChapter 3. Indigenous Peoples’ Cultures and Physical Activities
Braden Te HiwiChapter 4. Case Studies of Indigenous Sport
Janice ForsythChapter 5. Colonial Encounters, Conservation, and Sport Hunting in Banff National Park
Courtney W. MasonChapter 6. The Impact of Industrialization on Sport, Recreation, and the Environment
Robert Kossuth and Dave McMurrayChapter 7. Ideological Struggles and the Emergence of Cricket, Lacrosse, and Baseball
Craig GreenhamChapter 8. The Development and Organization of Professional Sport
Robert KossuthChapter 9. Hockey, Identity, and Nationhood
Carly Adams, Russell Field, and Michel VigneaultChapter 10. Rereading Histories of Inclusive Recreation, Physical Education, and Sport
Danielle Peers and Lisa TinkChapter 11. Black Canadian Sporting Histories in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Ornella Nzindukiyimana and Kevin B. WamsleyChapter 12. The Sports–Media Complex and Canadian Culture
Stacy Lorenz and Jay SchererChapter 13. The Assertion of Canada’s Colonial Self in National and International Sport
Christine M. O'BonsawinChapter 14. At Home and Abroad: Canada’s Engagement With International Sport and Recreation
Russell FieldChapter 15. Reflection on the Field: Sports Histories, Timelines, and De-Centring Settler Colonial Perspectives
Braden Te Hiwi and Carly Adams
