Sport and Recreation in Canadian History

Carly Adams, PhD, is a professor in the department of kinesiology and physical education and Board of Governors Research Chair (tier II) at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. She teaches courses on sport history, gender, the modern Olympic movement, and oral history. Her research explores sport, recreation, and leisure experiences from the intersections of historical and sociological inquiry, with a focus on gender and community. In collaboration with Dr. Darren Aoki, she is currently working on the Nikkei Memory Capture Project, a community-based oral history project collecting Japanese Canadian histories in southern Alberta. Her work has appeared in, among others, Journal of Sport History, Journal of Canadian Studies, The International Journal of the History of Sport, and International Review for the Sociology of Sport. She is the author of Queens of the Ice (published by Lorimer). Dr. Adams is the editor of Sport History Review.

• Chapter 1. Sport and Recreation Histories MatterCarly AdamsChapter 2. Methods and Theory in Historical ResearchSarah Barnes and Mary Louise AdamsChapter 3. Indigenous Peoples’ Cultures and Physical ActivitiesBraden Te HiwiChapter 4. Case Studies of Indigenous SportJanice ForsythChapter 5. Colonial Encounters, Conservation, and Sport Hunting in Banff National ParkCourtney W. MasonChapter 6. The Impact of Industrialization on Sport, Recreation, and the EnvironmentRobert Kossuth and Dave McMurrayChapter 7. Ideological Struggles and the Emergence of Cricket, Lacrosse, and BaseballCraig GreenhamChapter 8. The Development and Organization of Professional SportRobert KossuthChapter 9. Hockey, Identity, and NationhoodCarly Adams, Russell Field, and Michel VigneaultChapter 10. Rereading Histories of Inclusive Recreation, Physical Education, and SportDanielle Peers and Lisa TinkChapter 11. Black Canadian Sporting Histories in the 19th and 20th CenturiesOrnella Nzindukiyimana and Kevin B. WamsleyChapter 12. The Sports–Media Complex and Canadian CultureStacy Lorenz and Jay SchererChapter 13. The Assertion of Canada’s Colonial Self in National and International SportChristine M. O'BonsawinChapter 14. At Home and Abroad: Canada’s Engagement With International Sport and RecreationRussell FieldChapter 15. Reflection on the Field: Sports Histories, Timelines, and De-Centring Settler Colonial PerspectivesBraden Te Hiwi and Carly Adams

“Sport and Recreation in Canadian History sets a new direction for Canadian sport history. Its third-generation contributors challenge earlier categories and trajectories, and they account much more sensitively and comprehensively for the racially and culturally diverse society that Canada has been. They prepare us for the post–Truth and Reconciliation Canada that we urgently need to understand. It’s both illuminating and timely.”-Dr. Bruce Kidd, Professor at the University of Toronto“The best sport and recreation histories educate us about the past while challenging us to recognize patterned inequities in opportunities for meaningful physical activities as part of broader societal patterns of colonization, privilege and discrimination. This collaborative textbook, Sport and Recreation in Canadian History, written by leading Canadian sport historians, does that, thereby broadening the ways students can know Canadian sport and recreation but also themselves.”-Dr. Vicky Paraschak, Professor at the University of Windsor