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 Matter Carly Adams Chapter 2. Methods and Theory in Historical Research Sarah Barnes and Mary Louise Adams Chapter 3. Indigenous Peoples' Cultures and Physical Activities Braden Te Hiwi Chapter 4. Case Studies of Indigenous Sport Janice Forsyth Chapter 5. Colonial Encounters, Conservation, and Sport Hunting in Banff National Park Courtney W. Mason Chapter 6. The Impact of Industrialization on Sport, Recreation, and the Environment Robert Kossuth and Dave McMurray Chapter 7. Ideological Struggles and the Emergence of Cricket, Lacrosse, and Baseball Craig Greenham Chapter 8. The Development and Organization of Professional Sport Robert Kossuth Chapter 9. Hockey, Identity, and Nationhood Carly Adams, Russell Field, and Michel Vigneault Chapter 10. Rereading Histories of Inclusive Recreation, Physical Education, and Sport Danielle Peers and Lisa Tink Chapter 11. Black Canadian Sporting Histories in the 19th and 20th Centuries Ornella Nzindukiyimana and Kevin B. Wamsley Chapter 12. The Sports-Media Complex and Canadian Culture Stacy Lorenz and Jay Scherer Chapter 13. The Assertion of Canada's Colonial Self in National and International Sport Christine M. O'Bonsawin Chapter 14. At Home and Abroad: Canada's Engagement With International Sport and Recreation Russell Field Chapter 15. Reflection on the Field: Sports Histories, Timelines, and De-Centring Settler Colonial Perspectives Braden 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