HIST 3838 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Canadian Rangers, Irish Canadian, Canadian Amateur Hockey League
17 Dec 2016
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The first world war and (cid:494)war minus the shooting(cid:495) Sport fosters imperial allegiances (cid:494)fair play(cid:495), (cid:494)civilized conduct(cid:495) and (cid:494)equality on the playing field(cid:495) were british ideals transplanted to canada and the empire. Sport used by the 19th century nationalists to assert identities, affirm place in international relationships, to distinguish themselves from colonizing powers. Nationalism and imperialism are being shown through sport. Sport was also considered vital to strengthening the nation(cid:495)s military powers. Fear of an emasculated and weakened populace (g. stanley hall) Ex) study of british army recruits to boer war. Fear that women are not the mothers of the nations that they need to be. Physical education as antidote to the crisis of masculinity. Military style drill and calisthenics were popular with reformers. But teachers were mostly women in ontario at the turn of the century 70% of teachers were women.
