In September 2018,  the University of Windsor welcomed students, faculty, scholars, and researchers from across Canada and the US to participate in an exciting few days of learning and sharing.  

The "Telling the Stories of Race and Sports in Canada: Symposium" was the first of three components of a larger project, funded by a SSHRC Connections Grant, dedicated to exploring the past, present, and future of race and sport in Canada. This web portal for the Symposium is the second of the three components and it is intended to share the knowledge that emerged from the Symposium with those unable to attend.  For the Symposium programme, click here. See below for the Symposium papers. 

Janelle Joseph, University of Toronto: “Black Diasporas, Caribbean Transnationality, and Sport in the Greater Toronto Area and Beyond”

Jaclyn Meloche, Art Gallery of Windsor: “Deicing/Decolonizing: Hockey Histories in Canadian Contemporary Art”

Mark Norman, McMaster University and Peter Donnelly, University of Toronto: “Race, Ethnicity, and Physical Culture in a Multicultural Metropolis: Examining Physical Cultural Diversity in the Greater Toronto Area”

Sabrina A. Razack, Toronto District School Board: “How Do Canadian Racialized Sport Media Personalities Influence Conversations within Digital Spaces?”

Colin Howell, Saint Mary’s University: “Black Bases/Black Ice: The Multi-Sport Careers of Canadian Black Athletes and the Struggle for Social Justice”

Russell Field, University of Manitoba: “Broadening the Story: The Beginnings of a People’s History of Sport in Canada”

Heidi Jacobs and Miriam Wright, University of Windsor: “Telling the Stories of the Chatham Coloured All-Stars: Online and in the Community”

Victoria Paraschak, University of Windsor: “Hope for the Past: The Aboriginal Sport System, Wikipedia, and Reconciliation in Canada”

Ornella Nzindukiyimana, St Francis Xavier University: “Off the Sidelines: A Black Canadian Women’s Sports History in Ontario (1920s-1940s)”

William Humber, Seneca College: “Philip ‘Ponsonby’ Granville, A Pioneering African Jamaican/Canadian Athlete - Lost, Found and Celebrated?”

Art Rhyno, Leddy Library, University of Windsor: “Internment, Race, and Baseball in Southwestern Ontario: Japanese-Canadian Farm Labourers during World War II”

John Lutz, in collaboration with Bill Young: “Manny McIntyre: A Black Canadian Pioneer 1930s-1950s”

MacIntosh Ross, Jared Walters, Michael Heine, Western University: “‘The Toy Bulldog from the Blood Reserve’: Eddie First Rider and the Racial Politics of Canadian Boxing, 1950-1970”

Bob Dawson, Ottawa, Ontario: “Hockey and the Black Experience”

Stephen Soucie, University of Waterloo: “Unless You're Nike: Sketching the Identity Negotiations of Male Student-Athletes and their Coaches”

Simon Darnell, Daniel Eisenkraft Klein, Robyn Smith, Greg Yerashotis, University of Toronto: “Youth in Toronto Tell Their Stories about Sport – Insights from a Participatory Approach to Research”

Humphrey Nartey, University of Ottawa: “The Performativity of Race for Black Canadian Male Student-Athletes”