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Hockey In Canada In The 1920's

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Hockey first started in Canada in 1875 when Canada was becoming a nation and forming a cultural identity (unit2). Canada was beginning to transition from a rural environment to an industrialized society and hockey was the new modern sport that was up and coming (unit2). In the late 1800’s hockey was first sought out to control the lower class by encouraging a more active and healthy life style by playing sports. In this time period, hockey was intended to eliminate gambling, alcoholism, and poor health choice during leisure time (unit2). Thus, hockey first stared out to be a sport that was meant to shape the identity of the Canadian society in a positive manner by reducing unwanted behaviour, but as society continued to change to a more urbanized environment, Canadians shifted there focused to the importance of masculinity …show more content…

The most crucial time during Canadas transition from agricultural workforce to industrial workforce was during the 1920’s. In the 1920’ the men in the household began to work further away from home, leaving the women to take care of the children. During this time period, women where perceived as fragile and weak human beings and society feared that the boys that were being raised by their soft and frail mothers would be less masculine. Therefore, the concern of jeopardizing manliness in the nation made it a critical need, to fix the crises. In order for Canada to increase masculinity in the society a doctrine of manliness was created and enforced to all boys in schools, libraries, toy shops, sports clubs, and especially in hockey. The two major rules for manhood and masculinity in sports in the nineteenth century was to be respectable and rough. To be respectable was to respect the different statues of the players such as class and to be rough was to show the toughness and physical power that one could execute (unit 3). Hockey was perceived as one of the most aggressive sports that

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