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Not hockey : critical essays on Canada's other sport literature
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26244
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Publisher
- Athabasca, Alberta : AU Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 Ab3n
- Responsibility
- Edited by Angie Abdou and Jamie Dopp
- Publisher
- Athabasca, Alberta : AU Press
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- 239 pages ; 23 cm
- Abstract
- In this carefully curated collection of essays, editors Jamie Dopp and Angie Abdou go beyond their first collection, Writing the Body in Motion, to engage with the meaning of sport found in Canadian sport literature. How does 'sport' differ from physically risky recreational activities that require strength and skill? Does sport demand that someone win? At what point does a sport become an art? With the aim of prompting reflections on and discussions of the boundaries of sport, contributors explore how literature engages with sport as a metaphor, as a language, and as bodily expression. Instead of a focus on what is often described as Canada's national pastime, contributors examine sports in Canadian literature that are decidedly not hockey. From skateboarding and parkour to fly fishing and curling, these essays engage with Canadian histories and broader societal understandings through sports on the margin. Interspersed with original reflections by iconic Canadian literary figures such as Steven Heighton, Aritha Van Herk, Thomas Wharton, and Timothy Taylor, this volume is fresh and intriguing and offers new ways of reading the body. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Part I: Niche Sports and Subcultures: Non-commercial Experiences -- 1 "All Lithe Power and Confidence": Skateboarding in Michael Christie's If I Fall, If I Die -- Burn the Scoreboards: Michael Christie on Skateboarding and Olympic Sport -- 2 Olympic Athletes Versus Parkour Artists: Sport, Art, and the Critique of Celebrity Culture in Timothy Taylor's The Blue Light Project -- On The Blue Light Project -- 3 Covering Distance, Coming of Age, and Communicating Subculture: David Carroll's Young Adult Sports Novel Ultra -- 4 Out of the Ordinary: Curling in The Black Bonspiel of Willie MacCrimmon and Men with Brooms -- Part II: Colonialism and Nature -- 5 Sporting Mountain Voice: Alpinism and (Neo)colonial Discourse in Thomas Wharton's Icefields and Angie Abdou's The Canterbury Trail -- "Climbing It with Your Mind" -- 6 A "Most Enthusiastic Sportsman Explorer": Warburton Pike in The Barren Ground -- 7 Getting Away from It All, or Breathing It All In: Decolonizing Wilderness Adventure Stories -- Part III: Gender, Race, and Class -- 8 "Maggie's Own Sphere": Fly Fishing and Ecofeminism in Ethel Wilson's Swamp Angel -- 9 "Don't Expect Rodeo to Be a Sweet Sport": Ambiguity, Spectacle, and Cowgirls in Aritha van Herk's Stampede and the Westness of West -- Contention, On Rodeo -- 10 Immigration, Masculinity, and Olympic-Style Weightlifting in David Bezmozgis's "The Second Strongest Man" -- Weightlifting, Humour, and the Writer's Sensibility -- 11 "It All Gets Beaten Out of You": Poverty, Boxing, and Writing in Steven Heighton's The Shadow Boxer -- On Boxing -- 12 Turn It Upside Down: Race and Representation in Sport, Sport Literature, and Sport Lit Scholarship.
- ISBN
- 9781771993777
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
- Call Number
- 08.1 Ab3n
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Introducing the National and Provincial Parks Association of Canada : an address to the 8th Annual Convention of the B.C. Federation of Fish and Game Clubs, Vancouver, April 30 1965
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue7439
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1965
- Author
- Henderson, Gavin
- Call Number
- 13.111 H38 Pam
- Author
- Henderson, Gavin
- Published Date
- 1965
- Physical Description
- 11p
- Subjects
- Olympic games
- Recreation
- Call Number
- 13.111 H38 Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Spirit of '88
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20183
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 1985
- 1986
- Publisher
- Calgary Herald
- Call Number
- ARC-P General oversize
- Publisher
- Calgary Herald
- Published Date
- 1985
- 1986
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Series
- Volume 1, Number 1 - February 1985
- Volume 1, Number 2 - Novemeber 1985
- Volume 1, Number 3 - April 1986
- Subjects
- Winter Sports
- Newspapers
- Olympic games
- Abstract
- A supplement to the Calgary Herald newspaper on February 22, 1985, November 23, 1985; March 29, 1986 pertaining to the 1988 Winter Olympics to be in held in Calgary, Alberta
- Call Number
- ARC-P General oversize
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- Archives Library
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Revelstoke Ski Club
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12718
- Physical Description
- p.79
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Banff Ski Club
- Olympic games
- Ski jumping
- Notes
- In Canadian Ski Annual, 1932
- Accession Number
- 37500
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
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A few words from Banff
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12739
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Author
- Whyte, Jon
- Call Number
- 06 C31 Pam
- Author
- Whyte, Jon
- Subjects
- Olympic games
- Notes
- In Calgary, vol.X, no.6, February 1988
- Call Number
- 06 C31 Pam
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- Archives Library
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Men's Downhill : Read, Murray, Podborski and Irwin. Need we see more?
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12782
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Author
- Leighton, Tony
- Call Number
- 01.5 R73s Pam
- Author
- Leighton, Tony
- Physical Description
- p.28-29 : ill
- Subjects
- Olympic games
- Ski racing
- Notes
- In Ski Canada magazine, vol.8, no.4 (January/February 1980)
- Accession Number
- 5305
- Call Number
- 01.5 R73s Pam
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- Archives Library
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Calgary goes skiing : a history of the Calgary Ski Club
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12956
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2005
- Author
- Mittelstadt, David
- Publisher
- Calgary : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 01.5 M69c
- Author
- Mittelstadt, David
- Publisher
- Calgary : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2005
- Physical Description
- 234 p. : ill., ports., maps
- Subjects
- Alpine Club of Canada Huts
- Environment
- Mount Norquay ski area
- Olympic games
- Ski Runners of the Canadian Rockies
- Women
- World War II
- Notes
- Includes index
- ISBN
- 1-894765-65-6
- Accession Number
- 7797
- Call Number
- 01.5 M69c
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- Archives Library
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The torch of controversy
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12982
- Author
- Bobrovitz, Gary
- Physical Description
- p.49-54 : ill
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Olympic games
- Notes
- In Banff Life, Winter 1983-84. Note: page 6 features a Sunshine Village advertisement with Karen Percy
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- P
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Ecological and earth sciences in mountain areas
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13148
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Banff : Banff Centre
- Call Number
- 04 M86b 2002
- Responsibility
- edited by Leslie Taylor, Kathy Martin, David Hik and Anne Ryall
- Publisher
- Banff : Banff Centre
- Published Date
- 2002
- Physical Description
- 296 p. : ill
- Series
- Mountain communities conference series
- Subjects
- Birds
- Climatology
- Floods
- Olympic games
- Pollution
- Notes
- Proceedings of conference held at The Banff Centre, September 6-10, 2002
- Includes bibliographic references and index
- Accession Number
- 7645
- Call Number
- 04 M86b 2002
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- Archives Library
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The Great Divide : conservation vs. development in Alberta's mountain national parks, 1905-2005 an historical overview
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13357
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- January 20, 2005
- Author
- Hart, E. J
- Call Number
- 13.111 H25g Pam
- Author
- Hart, E. J
- Published Date
- January 20, 2005
- Physical Description
- 14p
- Series
- U. of C. Department of History Colloquium Series
- Subjects
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Harkin, James Bernard
- Kananaskis Country
- National and Provincial Parks Association of Canada (NPPAC)
- Olympic games
- Ski areas
- Tourism
- Notes
- Includes reference to Resources for Tomorrow conference in 1961, Parks for Tomorrow conference in 1968, the Village Lake Louise proposal in 1971/72, and the Banff-Bow Valley Study roundtable in 1994
- Call Number
- 13.111 H25g Pam
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- Archives Library
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