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.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 306.4/83/0971346
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-on
- ISBN
- 0773524568 9780773570702
- LCCN
- GV585.3.O5
- LCCN Item number
- B68 2003eb
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- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (x, 213 p.)
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- Canada
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00200694 (CaBNVSL)slc00200694 (CaBNVSL) (CaBNVSL)gtp00523324 (OCoLC)181843936 (CaOOCEL)400336
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Tables, Maps, and Illustrations 8
- Acknowledgments 10
- Introduction 14
- 1 Tory Elites to Middle-Class Men: Changing Political, Economic, and Social Landscapes 20
- 2 The 24th of May is the Queen's Birthday: Civic Holidays, Locality, and Sport 42
- 3 From Holidays to Every Day: The Amateur Ascendancy in Local Sport 71
- 4 Cricket and Local Culture: From Centre Stage to the Margins 99
- 5 Baseball, Boosters, and the Amateur Not-for-Profit Approach to Community Sport 111
- 6 Lacrosse: Idealized Middle-Class Sport for Youth 128
- 7 A Respectable Man's World: Amateurism and Local Culture 142
- Appendix: Notes on Methodology and Primary Sources 150
- Notes 154
- Bibliography 188
- Index 214
- A 214
- B 215
- C 215
- D 217
- E 217
- F 217
- G 217
- H 217
- I 218
- J 218
- K 219
- L 219
- M 219
- N 220
- O 220
- P 220
- Q 221
- R 221
- S 221
- T 222
- U 222
- V 222
- W 223
- Y 224
- Z 224
