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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S3E5 Mona Parsons – The Wolfville Resister
S3E4 The Battle of Passchendaele
*Repeat Episode* Canada’s House Band: The History of the Tragically Hip
S3E3 A Constitution in Question – The King-Byng Affair of 1926
S3E2 Behold the Golden Harp! The Fenian Invasions
S3E1 The Last of the Mohicans in Canadian History
*Special Episode* Bite and Hold: The Battle for Hill 70 and Lens August 1917
*Special Episode* Canada 150
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S2E17 La Famille Verendrye and the Exploration of the West
S2E16 A Grim Day Indeed: The Halifax Explosion
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S2E12 A Doukhobor Whodunnit: The Mysterious Death of Peter Verigin
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S2E9 The October Crisis of 1970
S2E8 Canada’s House Band: A History of the Tragically Hip
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