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For Canadians, hockey is the game. Shared experiences and memories—lacing up for the first time, shinny on an outdoor rink, Sidney Crosby’s historic goal, or the one scored by Maurice Richard—make hockey more than just a game. While the relationship between hockey and national identity has been studied, where does the game fit into our understanding of multiple, diverse Canadian identities today?
This interdisciplinary book considers hockey, both as professional and amateur sport, and both in historical and contemporary context, in relation to larger themes in Canadian Studies, including gender, race/ethnicity, ability, sexuality, geography, and reflects upon all aspects of hockey in Canadian life: play, fandom, sports broadcasting, and community activism.
This interdisciplinary scholarly collection is an extension of the “Hockey in Canada: More Than Just a Game” exhibition presented by the Canadian Museum of History.
Published in English. Includes one chapter in French.
Abstract
Résumé
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Préface
Introduction
Challenging Hockey
Hockey: More Than Just a Game
Images from the Canadian Museum of History Exhibition, March-October 2017
PART I: Debating Hockey's Origins
Chapter 1: A Flag of Tendons: Hockey and Canadian History
Chapter 2: Re-Imagining the Creation: Popular Mythology, the Mi'kmaq, and the Origins of Canadian Hockey
Chapter 3: Imagining a Canadian Identity through Sport: An Historical Interpretation of Lacrosse and Hockey
Document 1: Excerpts from The Survivors Speak: A Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (2015)
PART II: Childhoods
Document 2: In the Beginning Was the Sweater: L'abominable feuille d'érable of Ste-Justine
Chapter 4: Decolonizing the Hockey Novel: Ambivalence and Apotheosis in Richard Wagamese's Indian Horse
Chapter 5 "Here they come! Look them over!": Youth, Citizenship, and the Emergence of Minor Hockey in Canada
Chapter 6: A Myth within a Myth: "Outdoor Shinny" as the Nursery for Canada's National Game
PART III: Whose Game?
Document 3: Skating in the Drainage Ditches
Document 4: Tyrone's Story
Chapter 7: Thirty Years of "Going Global": Women's International Hockey, Cultural Diplomacy, and the Pursuit of Excellence
Chapter 8: Women's Recreational Hockey: A New Player Profile
PART IV: Reporting Hockey
Document 5: Hockey in New Media
Chapter 9: O Canada, We Stand On Guard For Thee: Representations of Canadian Hockey Players in the Swedish Press, 1920-2016
Chapter 10: The Hockey Night in Canada Punjabi Broadcast: A Case Study in Ethnic Sports Media
Chapter 11: Taking Slap Shots at the House: When the Canadian Media Turn Curlers into Hockey Players
Chapter 12: Tweeting Sexism and Homophobia: Gender and Sexuality in the Digital Lives of Male Major Midget AAA Hockey Players in Canada
PART V: Rethinking the Pros
Document 6: Maurice Richard : notre icône
Document 7: Joseph Cletus (Joe) Malone, 1890-1969
Chapter 13: Trust and Antitrust: The Failure of the First National Hockey League Players' Association, 1956-1958
Chapitre 14: Eric Lindros et les Nordiques de Quebec: deux solitudes?
Chapter 15: Whiteness and Hockey in Canada: Lessons from Semi-Structured Interviews with Retired Professional Players
Contributors
Index