HI299 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Maritime Professional Hockey League, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Royal Montreal Golf Club
Document Summary
Cricket: briish sports culture takes hold on the east coast. Old fashioned and gentlemanly: nova scoia cricket league. Neither the irst nor only league, but the most popular. Reaches its prime just prior to the first world war: w. a. East coast hockey: characterized by a discourse that emphasized toughness. Toughness= ice hockey played in cold, harsh condiions. Physical body is called upon to overcome and defeat the natural environment. Idenity formaion: using sport to ill an imagined void, you do not ned to play hockey to be canadian. But in this era, toughness was equated with canadian idenity: social construcion. Fabricaion of the human mind that will manifest as a result of a process of socializaion: ice hockey creates a resistance to briish sports culture on the east coast. The novascoian (halifax newspaper: 1883, describes women skaters playing a form of hurley on lily lake near saint.
