Hockey has had both an enduring but also a complicated relationship with ideas about what it means to be ‘Canadian’. While not every Canadian skates, or plays the game, or even cares about the game, the sport itself occupies a serous place in the Canadian cultural psyche. While the game has often been seen as something to unify Canadians, or to express ‘Canadianness’, it has also been exposed for very serious flaws in its culture, its infrastructure, and its dubious place as a game of character and inspiration for Canadian youth. The game of hockey, as we understand it now, has undergone dramatic challenges and changes since its first official appearance on ice in Montreal in the 1870s. This episode seeks to understand some of the key developments in the game that we now recognize today. From the rules to the rink size, to professionalization, commercialization, internationalization, to the broadening of the hockey cultural mosaic. From its amateur roots to a game that is international in its appeal, incorporating men and women from different socioeconomic classes and ethnic groups, and one that continues to evolve alongside modern value systems while evoking serious discussion on its relevance to modern Canadians.
Book recommendation: Canada’s Game: Hockey and Identity by Andrew C. Holman published McGill-Queen’s Press in 2009.
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S4E3 The Mohawk Nurse
S4E2 The Pig War of 1859
S4E1 The 100 Days Campaign
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S3E20 Hockey, Canadian Identity and the Summit Series of 1972
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S3E18 The Graveyard of the Pacific
S3E17 Camp X – Canada’s Secret WW2 Spy Camp
S3E16 Chloe Cooley and Slavery in Canada
S3E15 James Howlett aka Logan aka Wolverine
S3E14 The 1701 Great Peace of Montreal
S3E13 Nils Gustav Von Schoultz and the Upper Canadian Rebellion
S3E12 The Bride Ships of British Columbia
S3E11 Francis ‘Peggy’ Pegahmagabow: WW1 Sniper and Indigenous Activist
S3E10 First Nations Soldiers in the Canadian Expeditionary Force
S3E9 Behind Barbed Wire: Ukrainian Internment during the First World War
S3E8 Frostbitten and Forgotten – The Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force
S3E7 Canadian Comics and the Second World War Effort
S3E6 The Pemmican War – The Rivalry for the Northwest Territories
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