| Abstrakt: |
Horse racing, introduced to Canadian society by Englishmen in the second half of the 18th century, was accepted as a sport by Canadians not sooner than the first decades of the 19th century. There was strong moral, ideological, and cultural resistance against horse racing, because it was viewed as an affair of the high bourgeoisie and aristocracy. Canadian nationalism, primarily anti-English, developed later (about 1860) in a nationalism of conciliation. The attitude toward this English-imported sport changed then. |
