HIST205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Old Money, Royal Canadian Yacht Club, Pedestrianism
3 Apr 2013
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Lecture 3 the emergence of sport in canada. Hunting, fishing, canoeing, swimming, snow-shoeing, skating, cockfighting, rifle competitions, wrestling. Sports followed rhythm of seasons and agriculture. Victorian respectability favoured amateur associations or private clubs as appropriate places for sport. 1870 the federal government banned blood sports. Focused on taverns, saloons, & drinking shanties: eg. Joe beef"s canteen (montreal), black daniel"s shanty (halifax) Horseracing and equestrian competition: thoroughbred racing, 1768 racecourse on halifax common, tracks in garrison towns e. g. st. john, quebec city, kingston, the queen"s plate, 1860, 1888, joseph seagram, waterloo distiller founded seagram stables. Stables became a horseracing empire won 15 queen"s plate championship (8 consecutively: e. p. Harness racing (trotting: more popular than flat track racing & spread quickly in ontario, quebec & maritimes after c. 1875. Seen by supporters of thoroughbred racing as low-class sport, competed by uncontrolled gambling: 1878 maritime trotting association, 1884 united states national trotting association established in ontario & quebec.
