Sports & Recreation, History
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Fit to be Canadian?
The Recreation Industrial Complex in Canada by Lisa Tink
In recent years, recreation scholars and professionals began calling for a return to municipal recreation’s historical roots as a “public good.” Blaming neoliberal ideology for the current pay-per-use model, these calls for a more inclusive...
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Sticks 'n' Stones
The Battle for Curling to be an Olympic Sport by Warren Hansen
In the 1970s, when most people thought about curling they thought it was just a game, something that could never be a real sport. Warren Hansen, a top curler in the seventies, felt curling wasn’t viewed fairly by the sports world. That needed to...
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Minto & Mann
The Untold Stories of Lacrosse's Dynastic Teams by W.B. MacDonald
Even the most passionate lacrosse fans probably do not remember the Orillia Terriers, Montreal Shamrocks or even Vancouver Carlings, but in their times these teams were famous across Canada and even farther afield, always in the thick of the hunt...
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The Viking Cup
International Hockey : A Small College Town Scores Big Time by LeRoy Johnson
How does a small college in a rural Alberta city of just over 12,000 people become host to the finest hockey players in the world? Now a part of the University of Alberta, Camrose Lutheran College was challenged to compete against larger city...
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Muskoka Ontario's Playground
A History of Recreation and Sport in Ontario's Cottage Country 1860-1945 by Ray Love
Recreation and Sport are an integral part of Canadian culture. This is nowhere more evident than in the Muskoka District of Ontario. Beginning in the 1860s, people from more populated areas of Southern Ontario and the North Eastern United States...
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The Vrooms of the Foothills, Volume 4: Ranching, the Real West
by Bessie Vroom Ellis
Ranching, the Real West is Volume 4 in the series THE VROOMS OF THE FOOTHILLS. Once again and using 5 maps and over 280 photos, Bessie Vroom Ellis vividly illustrates the social history of southwestern Alberta. The captions are memory-filled...
