For the Love of the Game
Amateur Sport in Small-Town Ontario, 1838-1895
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2003
- Category
- General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780773524569
- Publish Date
- Jan 2003
- List Price
- $65.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773570702
- Publish Date
- Jan 2003
- List Price
- $34.95
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Description
Nancy Bouchier traces the increasing importance of amateur sport to Woodstock and Ingersoll, two small nineteenth-century Ontario towns, revealing its intricate ties to urban boosterism and middle-class culture. Focusing on civic holiday celebrations, the establishment of organized clubs for cricket, baseball, and lacrosse, and the rise of spirited urban sports rivalries, Bouchier shows that small town interest in sports was much more than a pale imitation of the sporting life of Canada's major urban centres.
About the author
Nancy B. Bouchier, professor of history at McMaster, explores issues of locality, gender, social class and the environment in the history of sport and physical activity. She is author of For Love of the Game: Amateur Sport in Small Town Ontario 1838–1895.
