Books – Sports & Recreation

• 

  Undressed Toronto

  From the Swimming Hole to Sunnyside, How a City Learned to Love the Beach, 1850-1935

  Dale Barbour (Author)

  Dressing for the beach.

  Published October 2021 | Environmental Studies, Gender Studies, History, Social History, Sports & Recreation, Urban Studies

• 

  The Politics of the Canoe

  Bruce Erickson (Editor), Sarah Wylie Krotz (Editor)

  A vessel of meaning.

  Published March 2021 | Indigenous Studies, Social History, Sports & Recreation

• 

  Thrashing Seasons

  Sporting Culture in Manitoba and the Genesis of Prairie Wrestling

  C. Nathan Hatton (Author)

  Wrestling on the prairies.

  Published May 2016 | Gender Studies, History, Social History, Sports & Recreation

• 

  Winnipeg Beach

  Leisure and Courtship in a Resort Town, 1900-1967

  Dale Barbour (Author)

  During the first half of the twentieth century, Winnipeg Beach proudly marketed itself as the Coney Island of the West. Located just north of Manitoba’s bustling capital, it drew 40,000 visitors a day and served as an important intersection point between classes, ethnic communities, and perhaps most importantly, between genders. In Winnipeg Beach, Dale Barbour takes us into the heart of this turn of the century resort area and introduces us to some of the people who worked, played and lived in the resort.

  Published February 2011 | Gender Studies, History, Social History, Sports & Recreation

• 

  Curling Capital

  Winnipeg and the Roarin’ Game, 1876 to 1988

  Morris Mott (Author), John Allardyce (Author)

  The rise of Winnipeg to world curling prominence in the nineteenth century and the persistence of that prominence in the twentieth.

  Published January 1989 | History, Sports & Recreation