WHERE IS THIS BASEBALL TEAM?

You can answer the previous question by

searching the nine sections of a photograph.

LB Background RB

Left C Centre Right C

LF Foreground RF
Analyze the faint writing LB, CB , RB.
Look at the lists, LB-RB.
The man RC helps to explain where they are.
  It is a train station.

The Afro-Canadian man is a sleeping car porter.

(Station lists make it Windsor Station Montreal). The clothes tell us
it is the 1930’s. It is the Mount Royal Baseball Team .
 Pictures are loaded with information .

 Interpret and understand the changes in sports and

games caused by railways from the 1850’s- 1920’s.
 List information and put the facts together about
the pictures you are going to see.
 We are looking at the broad economic era
from 1850-1900 mostly.

1850 1900
Industrialization means factories
began to make goods. Machines
1st Phase 2nd Phase powered by water or steam helped
Industrializ Industriali people produce goods more cheaply
ation zation and quickly.

Water & Hydro- Urbanization, living in towns, grew

Steam Electric because large numbers worked in
Powered & Oil factories.
machines Powered
machines After 1900 and the development of
the oil-powered automobile, people
began to live in suburbs, outside the
downtown core.
You are Canadian Sports Investigator (CSI)
HW5

HW5 asks questions:

What (Description, what is it? Change, what changed or stayed the same?
Causes/Consequences what caused the change?)

When (Time it took place? Time periods? Chronology, the order things
happened)

Where (Significance of the place or location where the event happened?)

Who (People involved? Why them?)

How (Process? How did it happen?)

Why (Reason/Cause/Motivation for an event? Significance, weighing the

importance of an event or person)
 From the photograph, find evidence that this is 1936 and not the first train in
Canada, 1836 ?
 The onlookers RC have 1930’s clothes and the electric telegraph pole (CB) is
also from a later date.

Search and be careful with photographs.
THE GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY IN THE 1860’S LINKED UP MUCH
OF CANADA AND ALSO LINKED CANADA TO THE UNITED
STATES. WHAT CHANGES DID THIS BRING TO SPORTS?
Lacrosse , played by the First Nations, is our oldest sport. There was no one
way to play, and as can be seen below, this game was even held on ice.


 Railways made it easier to have lacrosse leagues. Toronto is
playing Montreal for the world championship,1876. Railways
ran special trains for the crowds.
How did the crowd tell the teams apart?
Railways changed sport in many ways. The top picture is before 1860
when lacrosse rules were made in Montreal. The other is from the late
20th century. HW5 has changed?
 Curling is Canada’s oldest organized club game. In
fact, the Montreal Curling Club of 1807 is the oldest
sport’s club in N.A. Our climate explains why
farmers and others played sports more in winter
than summer.
Curling clubs also started in Kingston (1820), Quebec City (1821) &
Toronto (1836).
First inter-city game was Mtl vs Que. City in Three Rivers, 1835.
Each team took 4 days to travel there & back.
Governor-General’s Curling medals started after railways in the
1850’s made travel quicker and cheaper.
 The first ( American) Football match, 1874. Players are (C), a
band is (LF) and horse carriages(CB). Note the absence of lines
and the few players. McGill Univ. of Montreal is playing Harvard
Univ. who came up from Boston by train.
The shot put.(LB) List other sports (CB, RB, RC). What sport, LC, continues at
Caledonian( Highland) Games but is not played at modern track meets?
Crowds that payed to see races at Highland Games were willing
to pay to see races at places such as Toronto’s Lacrosse Club.
Track and field meets grew from Highland Games in Canada.
 What does this print tell you about the popularity of rowing
competitions in 19th century Canada? Explain your answer by
stating how Canadians imported and exported products before
steam trains.
Canada is playing Australia. What is the game and what does
this tell you about sport and travel in the last half of the 19 th
century? What evidence shows that this game was popular?
The Victoria Rink (a Canadian word taken from curling) was in the “Crystal Palace”
built for the opening of the Grand Trunk Railway. What sport still uses the
dimensions(sizes) of this rink today? ( Clue, McGill “Rules” made here by Creighton
in 1875.)
 How far did the Harvard team travel from Boston to play Mcgill in
Montreal, 1874?(Count it up below).
How long did it take by train @ a 40 miles per hour average? How long did
it take by stage coach and steamboat @ 8mph?

   Montreal to Sherbrooke  91 miles

  Sherbrooke to Stanstead  34 miles
  Stanstead to Haverhill  80 miles
  Haverhill to Concord  70 miles
   Concord to Boston  76 miles
  Total  ? miles
 Now You Are Ready to Answer
HW5 Questions
 How did railways help to create lacrosse and ice hockey as
popular sports?
 Where were lacrosse, hockey, and Canadian football developed?
 The Grand Trunk Railway ran cheap excursions for sports teams
and their supporters. How did that help sport to develop?
 Who first played lacrosse?
 Which sport first used the word “rink”?
 What sporting event is evidence that Canadians were in touch
with the United States by rail?
 What sporting event is evidence that Canadians had global
contacts in the last half of the 19th century?