PERLS204 Lecture : March 5 - Wheat.doc

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Physical Education, Recreation and Leisure Studies
• Course: PERLS204
• Professor: Zac Robinson

Document Summary

March 5 wheat and 1920s canadian west. What accounts for the growth: govt sponsored programs (experimental farms, public works projects, advances in tech and infrastructure, ex. Immigrants brought all sorts of different leisure activities: urban growth: dependent upon the resource base of the surrounding hinterland and external demands for the produce that the region produced. Small mercantile towns: would seemingly spring up overnight, railway networks throughout the west, towns rose up along the tracks, boom and bust. The impacts of boosterism: civic officials and business leaders, huge impact on sport and leisure in the west. Leisure and sport is increasingly sold to consumers as entertainment; sport became a business much like any other . Civic boosterim: usually prominent businessmen who had the town"s best interests at heart . During the carnival week, the train service provided service in bc montr al and.