Lecture 5: Sport in British North America

Question 1

british north america

Answer 1

during colonial period
explosion of sport
few years/centuries before others develop sport
-they create and other copy

Question 2

Montreal athletic amateur association

Answer 2

created 6 sports and club still around today

• invented scientific racism
• montreal was english before ww2

Question 3

gentlemen’s code

Answer 3

british brought respectability to canada along with sport
scottish and english take over fur trade
upper middle class set up private clubs and invent sport in canada
-beaver club aristocracy

Question 4

billiards in canada

Answer 4

gains popularity and goes to normal taverns

• canada regulates billiards
• moral evil when working class people play
• game only for the rich

Question 5

respectability and sport

Answer 5

limits sport - english favour breast stroke because its dignified
-front crawl is non-european and violent

Question 6

hunting

Answer 6

protected game areas for gentlemen to hunt

• natives couldnt hunt but were used as guides
• natives were hutning too much with rifles

Question 7

british and gender

Answer 7

introduced gender ideas

-women cannot play sport which is different than ideas of french canadians