Organizing Sport in Canada

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Organizing Sport in Canada

• Club sport in Montreal MAAA
• Changing the guard masculinity and social class
  from the duel to the docks to the playing
  fields
• The public man middle class Masculinity and
  Sport Snow shoeing
• The professional
• The nation
• The hero

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What happened?
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The Elites

• Likeminded, business, development of the colonies
• Masculine honour through understood codes family
  name, land/power, physical challenge
• Retreat from the common tavern/the tavern brawl

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Codes of Masculine Honour

• Dangerous liaisons
• Hard times

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The new man middle class

• Brutality of the duel and the tavern fight
• Organizing, rationalizing, ordering
  economy/government
• Honour through civility, hard work, Muscular
  Christianity, public reputation
• Public man/domestic woman
• The sporting club enter the snowshoers

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Song of the Montreal Snowshoe ClubPass the
bottle and fill your glasses,Now that each has
munched his grub,Well drink success to the
pretty lasses,Whose lovers belong to the Snow
Shoe Club.Yes tonight well all unite To
success to the Snow Shoe Club At racing, we
challenge all creation,Let them be prepared for
a very hard rub,If among the picked men of any
nation,Some think they can beat the Snow Shoe
ClubThen to-night, with all our might,Well
drink success to the Snow Shoe ClubAll pretty
girls take my advice,On some vain fop dont
waste your lub,But if you wish to hug something
nice, Why marry a boy of the Snow Shoe ClubThen
each night, with wild delight,Youll sing
success to the Snow Shoe Club.
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Montreal Snow shoeing

• tramps taverns, dinners
• Races on horserace courses 43
• manly virtues of snowshoeing the pretty
  lasses
• 1860s and MSSC leader in organizing races bands,
  grandstands, precision in organization, prizes
  racism
• The masculine was white, middle class, public
  face of honour became amateur

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The Influence of the Shoers

• 1000s of snow shoers by 1880s
• Led to prominence of Montreal Winter Carnivals of
  1880s
• MSSC leadership led to formation of MAAA in 1881

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Montreal Setting the Foundation for Amateur
Sport Control

• Montreal Lacrosse Club
• Montreal Snow Shoe Club
• Montreal Bicycle Club
• 1881
• The Montreal Amateur Athletic Association

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MAAA Stated Purpose

• the promotion of physical and mental culture
  among, and the providing of rational amusements
  and recreation for, its members

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Distinction from the professional sportsman

• Institutionalized through the club
• Regulated, codified, organized by the MAAA

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Amateurism

• AAA of C 1884
• An amateur is one who has never competed for a
  money prize or staked bet or with or against any
  professional for any prize, or assisted in the
  practice of athletic exercises or as a means of
  obtaining a livelihood.

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Montreal Amateur Athletic Association

• MAAA grew out of an idea/system that led to an
  assertive group with initiative gt formal
  organization and therefore position of power

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MAAA Conclusions

• Right club
• Amateur-based run in very business-like fashion
• Tremendous success
• Instrumental in forming 10 NSGBs like CWA, NLA,
  CAAA

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The Professional

• Baseball
• Scottish Highland Games
• Rifle shooting
• Rowing
• Pedestrian contests

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Sport and the Nation building identities (clip)

• Confederation sport has new meaning the Paris
  Crew
• British-Canadian
• Selling the new economy and politics of the
  Dominion of Canada
• Rifle shooting
• National Championships
• National Sport Organizations

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Canadian National Sport Bodies

• 1867 - National Lacrosse Association
• 1868 - Dominion of Canada Rifle Association
• 1880 - National Amateur Lacrosse Assoc.
• 1882 - Canadian Wheelmans Assoc.
• 1884 - Amateur Athletic Assoc. of Canada
• 1884 - Canadian Lawn Tennis Assoc.
• 1884 - Canadian Rugby Football Union
• 1887 - Canadian Lacrosse Assoc.
• 1888 - Amateur Skating Assoc. of Canada
• 1892 - Canadian Cricket Assoc.

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Canadian National Sport Bodies

• 1895 - Royal Canadian Golf Association
• 1895 - Canadian Jockey Club
• 1898 - Canadian Amateur Athletic Association
• 1899 - Canadian Gymnastics Association
• 1899 - Canadian Trotting Association
• 1900 - Canadian Canoe Association
• 1906 - Alpine Club of Canada
• 1907 - Canadian Snowshoe Union
• 1909 - Canadian Amateur Swimming Assoc.
• 1909 - Amateur Athletic Union of Canada

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Spectatorship

• The promoter
• Gate receipts
• Town boosterism
• Professional vs. Amateur

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Enter the Heroes