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HIST*2280 Questions and Answers
Nation Building
Ans: - confederation occured in 1867
- the beginning of the nations industrialization and urbanization period
- hockey came along at the beginning of the "modern age"
- Anthony Smith: "Nations and Nationalism are intrinsic to the nature of
the modern world and to the revolution of modernity"
Industrialization
Ans: -John A. Macdonald's "National Policy"
- high protective tariffs
- settling the west
- national railway to unite the new country
- the railway connects people and businesses
- causes urbanization
- nation sees rise in steel, iron and coal industries and later hydro-
electricity industry
- with the growth, it made rural canadians move to urban areas to find
better wages
- second half of nineteenth century
French vs. English Canada
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Ans: - the french's vision for the country did not always align with the
english vision for nation building
- their relationships were strained at the time
- issues that had direct ramifications on the game:
-Jesuits Estates Act; the School/Language Debate; and growing French
nationalism
Crisis in Masculinity
Ans: - social agents at the end of the nineteenth century said the
Dominion of Canada was suffering from a so called "____________"
- Sharp increase in urbanization and industrialization, many felt the
nation's manhood was not receiving the attention it needed
- with industrialization, many men were working in factories and offices
leaving young boys to be brought up by their mothers - a lot of people
began to fear what would become of the canadian male
- hockey was seen as the perfect remedy to the 'crisis' and would prepare
the nation's young men to become good soldiers
Manliness and Militarism
Ans: - to safeguard the crisis, canada introduced a doctrine of manliness
and masculinity
- it was enforced in schools, libraries, boys clubs, toy shops and in
sports clubs and teams
- two ideas of manhood and strenuous or muscular sport:
- "respectable" form of the upper-middle class - was aggressive, but
served a purpose
- "rough" form of working-class males - hockey was a way to express
themselves, their "toughness" and their "physical prowess"
- Barlow
Violence
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HIST*2280 Questions and Answers
Nation Building
Ans: - confederation occured in 1867
- the beginning of the nations industrialization and urbanization period
- hockey came along at the beginning of the "modern age"
- Anthony Smith: "Nations and Nationalism are intrinsic to the nature of
the modern world and to the revolution of modernity"
Industrialization
Ans: -John A. Macdonald's "National Policy"
- high protective tariffs
- settling the west
- national railway to unite the new country
- the railway connects people and businesses
- causes urbanization
- nation sees rise in steel, iron and coal industries and later hydro-
electricity industry
- with the growth, it made rural canadians move to urban areas to find
better wages
- second half of nineteenth century
French vs. English Canada
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Ans: - the french's vision for the country did not always align with the
english vision for nation building
- their relationships were strained at the time
- issues that had direct ramifications on the game:
-Jesuits Estates Act; the School/Language Debate; and growing French
nationalism
Crisis in Masculinity
Ans: - social agents at the end of the nineteenth century said the
Dominion of Canada was suffering from a so called "____________"
- Sharp increase in urbanization and industrialization, many felt the
nation's manhood was not receiving the attention it needed
- with industrialization, many men were working in factories and offices
leaving young boys to be brought up by their mothers - a lot of people
began to fear what would become of the canadian male
- hockey was seen as the perfect remedy to the 'crisis' and would prepare
the nation's young men to become good soldiers
Manliness and Militarism
Ans: - to safeguard the crisis, canada introduced a doctrine of manliness
and masculinity
- it was enforced in schools, libraries, boys clubs, toy shops and in
sports clubs and teams
- two ideas of manhood and strenuous or muscular sport:
- "respectable" form of the upper-middle class - was aggressive, but
served a purpose
- "rough" form of working-class males - hockey was a way to express
themselves, their "toughness" and their "physical prowess"
- Barlow
Violence
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