HIST 2280 Study Guide - Final Guide: Sports Entertainment, Sportsnet, John A. Macdonald
12 Dec 2015
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The national game has reflected prevailing canadian attitudes towards many issues including: o nation identity o societal norms and values o war and militarism o manliness and felinity o professionalism and amateurism o class and race o memory and mythmaking. 1890s 1913 was a huge time for technological advancements trains, telegraphs, steamships and photographs & national rail link coast to coast in 1892 enhanced the national community a new sense of economic prospects for the common man new civic visions of industrial growth, economic prosperity and modernizing culture the market was growing immensely at this time and was becoming more or more important to the game of hockey the media and press at the time were changing as well: paul rutherford states that the press were told to fix the identity of the dominion as a victorian common wealth" there was a threefold increase in the number of newspapers published between 1874 1900.
