HIST205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Anglophile, Upper Canada College, Charlottetown Conference
3 Apr 2013
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Lecture 7 cricket and social class in pre and post-colonial canada. British song 1700s: cricket is the game for the low and great . Patricians and plebeians: duck of richmond"s xi. Cricket as cultural ambassador of british empire. Upper canada, 1791 96: sir john colborne (lt. gov. British naval & military officers and sons of the gentry: 1844: captain andrew drew, rear admiral henry vansittart & sons & other officers. Great mansions, vast estates, retinues of servants. Social events with family, some neighbours, military officers. Next to northcote, edmond deedes" estate, road to beachville. Club-house, spectators" stand, high board fence, appropriate dress. 1876, phillip"s canadian cricketers guide: 1850s changes. County reorganization elected township, village, and town councils. Network of elite involvement in cricket in ontario such as between garrisons & private anglophile clubs. E. g. annual match toronto cricket cub vs. upper canada college. 1860s, more changes: 1864-1869 woodstock"s young canadian club (baseball)
