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• 1. Introduction--
• 2. Games and Contests in Early Canada--
• 3. Games, Pastimes, and Sporting Life in British North America--
• 4. Transitions to and Control of Organized Sport in the Nineteenth Century--
• 5. Case Studies in the Growth and Institutionalization of Sport: Lacrosse and Baseball--
• 6. Stars and Heroes: Hanlan, Rubenstein, Cyr, Scott, and Johnson--
• 7. Sports Journalism and the Media--
• 8. Gender, Body, Sport--
• 9. Physical Education, School, Sport, and Physical Fitness--
• 10. Sport and the National--
• 11. The Olympic Games--
• 12. Sport in Canada: Current Issues.
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The second edition of Sport in Canada: A History examines the place of sports and games in Canadian life, mainly from a historical perspective, but also in view of contemporary society. Chapters explore how people have related to one another through sports, games, and pastimes throughout Canada's history. Assessing the broader social context within which particular sports emerged or disappeared and the forces that have shaped them, Sport in Canada is an indispensible volume for those studying the history of sport in this country.
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"This book covers theoretical, social, and practical issues related to educational games and simulations, contributing to a more effective design and implementation of these activities in learning environments"--Provided by publisher.

• Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword: Thinker on the Rink; Introduction; Bibliography; 1st period: Social and political philosophy; "On est Canayen ou ben on l'est pas": Hockey, Nationalism, and Identity in Québec and Canada; Hockey and Politics, Same Battle!; Hockey Salaries: Scandal or Fair Pay?; 2nd period: Mythology and metaphysics; The Rocket: The Making of a Hero; From the Shinny Pond to the Bell Centre: Reweaving the Myth of the Sainte-Flanelle; The Metaphysics of Hockey; 3rd period: Ethical and aesthetic issues; Eulogy for the Tie Game.

• Fisticuffs: When do We Say Enough's Enough?The Aesthetics of Hockey; The Great Drug Debate: Saturday Night at Chez Paulo; Overtime; A Game to Be Forgotten!; Towards a Kantian Hockey; Kierkegaard and the Art of Goaltending; Shootout; Haitians, Hockey, and Some Philosophy of Culture; About the authors.

Does hockey provide a better understanding of the differences between Canadian and Quebecois nationalisms? Is there a fundamental relationship between the hockey arena and the political arena? What have we lost as a society in abolishing the tie game? Are salaries in the NHL really that outrageous? Is hockey more art than sport? Should hockey players be banned from using performance-enhancing drugs at all costs? Do goalies suffer from angst? Does our national sport have its own mythology and metaphysics? Do hockey brawls reflect our true human nature more than we would care to admit? And what would it be like if the great philosophers were to face off on the ice? This is a team of philosophy and hockey buffs go deep with these fascinating questions and many others in this examination of a worshiped sport elevated to something akin to a cult. Accessibly written and peppered with humour, the essays in this book will charm specialists, sports fans, and everyone in between. Whether you're a fan of Richard, Gretzky, Crosby, Plato, Kant, or Kierkegaard, you're invited to be a spectator at this very special meeting of minds!.
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• Introduction - For Jets and Country: A Reminder of How Sport Matters Russell Field, University of Manitoba Part I: Global promises: The Contested Terrain of International Sport
• 1. Sport, Development and the Challenge of Slums Richard Gruneau, Simon Fraser University
• 2. The New 'Culture Wars': The Vancouver 2010 Olympics, Public Protest, and the Politics of Resistance Russell Field, University of Manitoba
• 3. Sochi
• 2014: The Russian Oligarchy and Winter Games Funding Hart Cantelon, Professor Emeritus, University of Lethbridge, and James Riordan, Professor Emeritus, University of Surrey
• 4. The Dialectic of Modern, High-Performance Sport: Returning to Dubin to Move Forward Rob Beamish, Queen's University Part II: Continental divides: Revisiting the Shaping of Sport in North America
• 5. The 1904 Chicago-St. Louis Transition and the Social Structuration of the American Olympic Movement John J. MacAloon, The University of Chicago
• 6. Two-Way Hockey: Selling Canada's Game in America, 1885-1935 Stephen Hardy, University of New Hampshire
• 7. Continentalization and America's Contested Baseball Hegemony: the Postwar Challenge to Major League Baseball in Mexico, Quebec and the Caribbean, 1945-1955 Colin Howell, Saint Mary's University Part III: Local contours: Debating Access to Physical Activity in Canadian Communities
• 8. Change Rooms and Change Agents: The Struggle against Barriers to Opportunities for Physical Activity and Sport in Ethnocultural Communities in Toronto Parissa Safai, York University
• 9. Political Ecology, Discourse and Shared-use Trail Development in Nova Scotia: Braking for or Breaking the Environment? Robert Pitter and Glyn Bissix, Acadia University
• 10. Intertwining Histories, Enhancing Strengths: Sport and Recreation Services in the Northwest Territories, 1962-2000 Victoria Paraschak, University of Windsor Part IV: Shifting Ground: Reconsidering the Role of the Public Intellectual in Sport
• 11. 'Can you do this for my neighbourhood?': Public Sport History, the Environment, and Community in an Industrial City Nancy B. Bouchier and Ken Cruikshank, McMaster University
• 12. Where History meets Biography: Toward a Public Sociology of Sport Peter Donnelly and Michael Atkinson, University of Toronto
• 13. 'Shadow Disciplines' or A Place for 'Post-Disciplinary Liaisons' in the North American Research University: What are we to do with Physical Cultural Studies? Patricia Vertinsky, University of British Columbia
• 14. Bruce Kidd, Sport History, and Social Emancipation Douglas Booth, University of Otago.
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For more than forty years, scholars of the history and sociology of sport and recreation have studied how, no matter the time or place, sport is always more than just a game. In Playing for Change, leading scholars in the field of sports studies consider that legacy and forge ahead into the discipline's future. Through essays grouped around the themes of international and North American sport, including the Vancouver and Sochi Olympic Games; access to physical activity in Canadian communities; and the role of activism and the public intellectual in the delivery of sport, the contributors offer a comprehensive examination of the institutional structures of sport, physical activity, and recreation. This book provides wide-ranging examples of cutting-edge research in a vibrant and growing field.
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• Contents
• 1 The Family Looks Back
• 2 Childhood: 1875â€?1885
• 3 Nordmarka and Independence: 1885â€?1891
• 4 The Challenge of Jotunheimen: 1892
• 5 Cadet Training in Christiania: 1893â€?1894
• 6 Student Life in Germany: 1894â€?1899
• 7 America, Land of Promise: 1901â€?1905
• 8 Postcard Romance: 1905â€?1906
• 9 A Fresh Start: 1907â€?1908
• 10 Caribbean Adventure: 1908â€?1911
• 11 Success and Frustration in New York: 1912â€?1922
• 12 Health and Happiness in the Adirondacks: 1922â€?1928
• 13 Going Broke in Montreal: 1928â€?1930

• 14 Necessity Creates a Skiing Engineer: 1930â€?193215 The Maple Leaf Trail: 1932â€?1939
• 16 The Hungry Years: 1940â€?1960
• 17 The Tide Begins to Turn: 1960â€?1967
• 18 Reaping the Benefits: 1968â€?1975
• 19 Capping the Climax: 1976â€?1986
• 20 The Strength of the Hills: 1987

"This is the story of the remarkable Norwegian-Canadian Herman Smith "Jackrabbit" Johannsen who pioneered cross-country skiing in North America. A warm and personal biography written by his daughter Alice, it adds objectivity and clarity to the Jackrabbit legend." "Jackrabbit's life spanned more than eleven decades. Born in Norway in 1875, he spent his early years there before going to university in Berlin. As a young engineer he emigrated to the United States. After living and working in New York, in 1928 he moved to Canada with his wife and children and made his home in Montreal. Despite the financial problems which he encountered throughout his life, his good humour and determination never failed - nor did his devotion to the outdoors and the development of skiing. Jackrabbit became a symbol for wilderness adventure and the excitement of cross-country skiing and, through his energy and enthusiasm, imparted his ideals to countless others." "Alice Johannsen vividly describes the way her father lived and thought, and explains the personal philosophy that shaped his activities and achievements. This enjoyable biography will appeal to a wide range of outdoors and sports enthusiasts."--Jacket.

• Part one. Issues. The perils and pleasures of coaching and motherhood / Sheila Robertson
• Changing the androcentric world of sport : is it possible? / Penny Werthner, Diane Culver, and Rose Mercier
• Female coaches' experience of harassment and bullying / Gretchen Kerr
• Homophobia in sport : fact of life, taboo subject / Guylaine Demers
• part two. Skills. Communicating with clarity : guidelines to help female coaches succeed / Penny Werthner and Shaunna Taylor
• Understanding mentoring as a development tool for female coaches / Dru Marshall and Dawn-Marie Sharp
• Political advocacy in coaching : why engage? / Rose Mercier and Dru Marshall
• part three. Advice. Coaching as a viable career path for women / Penny Werthner and Bettina Callary
• Developing the next generation of female coaches / Dru Marshall, Guylaine Demers, and Dawn-Marie Sharp
• The business of greatness / Rose Mercier
• Contracts and contract negotiations / Hilary Findlay.

In an extensive and frank exploration, leaders in women's coaching discuss the values women bring to the coaching profession, their quest for equal access, ways career aspirations and motherhood are juggled, how to negotiate contracts, and encounters with homophobia, harassment, and bullying. They also identify the challenges to progress and highlight the essential changes that need to be made. This volume will be of interest to sports organizations, leaders, and educators; athletes and parents; researchers in sports and gender studies; and politicians and policy makers. Women in leadership roles in business, public service, education, and their communities will find the wisdom contained in Taking the Lead readily transferable to their respective arenas.

• Introduction: "A rather unique sort of organization"
• Industrializing a game : 1875-1916
• A reorganization : 1917-1923
• Transplanting the clubs : 1923-1926
• Creating a major league : 1926-1929
• Becoming "the big thing" : 1929-1935
• Integrating the amateurs : 1935-1939
• Managing a morale business : 1939-1945
• Conclusion: Culture and structure.

How did a small Canadian regional league come to dominate a North American continental sport? Joining the Clubs: The Business of the National Hockey League to 1945 tells the fascinating story of the game off the ice, offering a play-by-play of cooperation and competition among owners, players, arenas, and spectators that produced a major league business enterprise. Ross explores the ways in which the NHL organized itself to maintain long-term stability, deal with its labor force, and adapt its product and structure to the demands of local, regional, and international markets. He argues that sports leagues like the NHL pursued a strategy that responded both to standard commercial incentives and also to consumer demands that the product provide cultural meaning. Leagues successfully used the cartel form - an ostensibly illegal association of businesses that cooperated to monopolize the market for professional hockey - along with a focus on locally branded clubs, to manage competition and attract spectators to the sport. In addition, the NHL had another special challenge: unlike other major leagues, it was a binational league that had to sell and manage its sport in two different countries. Joining the Clubs pays close attention to these national differences, as well as to the context of a historical period characterized by war and peace, by rapid economic growth and dire recession, and by the momentous technological and social changes of the modern age.
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• 1. Sport, Society, and Politics
• 2. Press, Preparations, and Protests: January 1933-August 1935
• 3. "Moving Heaven and Earth"
• 4. "How Lonesome our Position is Becoming"
• 5. Preparations and Protests: March-July 1936
• 6. Crimson Blazers
• 7. Conclusion.
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Held in Germany, the 1936 Olympic Games sparked international controversy. Should athletes and nations boycott the games to protest the Nazi regime? More Than Just Games is the history of Canada's involvement in the 1936 Olympics. It is the story of the Canadian Olympic officials and promoters who were convinced that national unity and pride demanded that Canadian athletes compete in the Olympics without regard for politics. It is the story of those Canadian athletes, mostly young and far more focused on sport than politics, who were eager to make family, friends, and country proud of their efforts on Canada's behalf. And, finally, it is the story of those Canadians who led an unsuccessful campaign to boycott the Olympics and deny Nazi Germany the propaganda coup of serving as an Olympic host. Written by two noted historians of Canadian Jewish history, Richard Menkis and Harold Troper, More than Just Games brings to life the collision of politics, patriotism, and the passion of sport on the eve of the Second World War.
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