PERLS204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ice Palace, Structural Inequality
9 Dec 2017
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Consisted of week-long activities in ice skating masquerade balls, tobogganing, snow. Lures to the tourist industry shoeing, and ice hockey contests. City clubs and businesses had parade floats to be paraded around montreal. Stopped in 1889 because they became too complex, too many commercial interests. Age - carnival: the average quebec would not have attended, instead doing behind the scenes work. Space: played an important role in the carnival, reinforced the hierarchy, carnival was held in the nicer part of the city. Quebec society, a lot of structural inequality, related to ancestry, race, gender, ethnicity. While that the appeanace of good lrelations was given, still were tensions among the t(cid:449)o groups, (cid:449)as(cid:374)"t a har(cid:373)o(cid:374)ious relatio(cid:374)ship (cid:271)(cid:455) a(cid:374)(cid:455) means. Start to see develop, and travel by rail, makes sense to go northwest, like to boston, As a result of that, we have all these different forms of leisure and recreation.
