Nicolas Moreau is an associate professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Ottawa.Audrey Laurin-Lamothe is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at l’UniversitÉ du QuÉbec À MontrÉal.Howard Scott and Phyllis Aronoff won the 2018 Governor General’s Literary Award for their translation of Descent into Night by Edem Awumey.Marie-Pier Rivest is a doctoral candidate in the School of Social Work at the University of Ottawa.

• Introduction: The Montreal Canadiens as a Social Fact (Audrey Laurin-Lamothe and Nicolas Moreau and Marie-Pier Rivest)Chapter 1: The Richard/Campbell Affair: Hockey as a Vehicle for Quebec Francophone Affirmation (Suzanne Laberge)Chapter 2: The Passion of the Canadiens on the Red Line: between Faith and Idolatry (Olivier Bauer)Chapter 3: We are Habs and Normative (Nicolas Moreau and ChloÉ Nahas)Chapter 4: The Montreal Canadiens as a Popular Object: Representations of Tradition (Fannie Valois-Nadeau)Chapter 5: Is Culture a Factor Here? The Implications of the Corporation of the Montreal Canadiens for Quebec Society (Audrey Laurin-Lamothe)Chapter 6: “The City is Hockey”: Beyond the Slogan, a Quest for Identity (Jonathan Cha)Chapter 7: “Bread and circuses”: Reading Juvenal in Montreal (Alain Deneault)Conclusion: The Quebecness of the Montreal Canadiens (Nicolas Moreau and Audrey Laurin-Lamothe)

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