APA 2302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Northern Ontario, Tom Longboat, Canadian Olympic Committee
4 Apr 2016
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Amateurism was a discriminatory concept used to try to combat the perceived evils of professionalism. Pervasive ideal in canadian sport for more than a century beginning in about 1880. Tradiional amateur concept sport as diversion sport for proit tradiional pro concept. Amateurism debate in 2nd half of 19th c. Amateur ideal becomes the dominant code of sport during 1867-1920s. Europeans disallowing aboriginal athletes to compete, considered superior. Aluent (to be able to compete in circuit) Briish garrison oicers (private school sporing tradiion and circle) Amateurism not an issue unil democraizaion of sport by opportunity. When lower classes got into sport, upper classes made exclusive sport opportuniies. At issue was winning and social class preservaion in sporing compeiion. 1835 newark turf club no black man shall be allowed to compete under any pretext . Snowshoe race categories: open, for cups, trophies; aboriginals raced each other for $ Not by trade or employment a mechanic, arisan or labourer.
