Snowshoeing and Lacrosse: Canada’s Nineteenth-Century ‘National Games’

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Snowshoeing and Lacrosse: Canada’s Nineteenth-Century ‘National Games’
Abstract
Before the advent of professional hockey, snowshoeing and lacrosse were the Canadian national games. They were both Aboriginal cultural activities appropriated and transformed by the Anglophone professional and commercial middle class of Victorian Montreal.
Publication
Culture, Sport, Society
Volume
Vol. 6
Issue
no. 2-3
Pages
293-320
Date
June-October 2003
Language
en
Citation
Poulter, Gillian. “Snowshoeing and Lacrosse: Canada’s Nineteenth-Century ‘National Games.’” Culture, Sport, Society Vol. 6, no. 2–3 (October 2003): 293–320.
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