Data re Montreal Sport

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Data re Montreal Sport

• Dont get hung up on numbers rather look at what
  the data say about clubs, how long they existed
  and permanence
• For MAAA info, note growth trends from 1881-1909

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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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The MSSC halt on Mount Royal, circa 1870s
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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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Snowshoe hurdle races hurdler in front has
caught the toe of his snowshoe
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The social aspect of MSSC was retained in
its elaborate dinners
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Montreal ice phantasmagoria, date unknown,
likely 1870s, 1880s
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Ice Palace of 1883 Winter Carnival
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Ice Palace of 1887 (?) Montreal Winter Carnival
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MAAA Billiard Room
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MAAA Bowling lanes
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MAAA Reading Room, legacy of its Montreal Library
days
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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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