HIS263Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Muscular Christianity, Canadian Identity
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Confederation occurs, regional tensions, party politics (liberals/conservatives), promotion of western immigration, more and more provinces enter confederation, industrialization, sports, social reform. Arena in which middle class men/social reformers were trying to. Late 19th century in ontario introduce less time for vice ; their goal is to decrease the amount of destruction in society, to not mix the wrong type of people manliness, as well as to stimulate courage. Arose from the rise of urban cities, industrialization. Muscular christianity: introduced the ideas of good masculinity and. Through sport, they"re trying to incorporate the idea of being. Creates a canadian identity as the national sport of canada masculine. People wanted women to play sport but to not be too active because they didn"t want women to have the masculinity that men would have. Some activity is good because they wanted women to be healthy enough to have good chances of fertility to be able to raise good future canadians.
