{"id":72943,"date":"2026-10-08T15:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T19:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.morrin.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=72943"},"modified":"2026-10-29T13:52:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T17:52:52","slug":"library-lecture-nationalism-tourism-and-sport-the-quebec-city-meet-of-the-canadian-wheelmens-association-1-2-july-1896","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.morrin.org\/en\/event\/library-lecture-nationalism-tourism-and-sport-the-quebec-city-meet-of-the-canadian-wheelmens-association-1-2-july-1896\/","title":{"rendered":"Library Lecture<\/i>: “Nationalism, Tourism, and Sport: The Quebec City Meet of the Canadian Wheelmen\u2019s Association, 1-2 July 1896”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Based primarily on newspaper research using the online research tool BAnQ num\u00e9rique, as well as a close analysis of the promotional brochure produced by the Quebec Bicycle Club, this presentation will focus on the annual meet of the Canadian Wheelmen\u2019s Association held in Quebec City in 1896.<\/p>\n

In addition to describing the preparations made by the club prior to the meet, and the events associated with it, it will outline the campaign that won the meet for the historic city. The major theme of that campaign was the need to expand the CWA network beyond Ontario and Montreal, thereby strengthening national unity. The appeal, however, was largely to Quebec City\u2019s historical status as the site of Wolfe\u2019s victory in 1759 rather than to the need to heal wounds that had been caused by the role of the Manitoba Schools Question in the recent federal election.<\/p>\n

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THE GUEST<\/h3>\n

Jack Little<\/strong>\u00a0is Professor Emeritus in the history department of Simon Fraser University. The majority of his publications focus on nineteenth-century Quebec. His publications related to the Quebec City area include: Patrician Liberal: The Public and Private Life of Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbini\u00e8re, 1829-1908<\/i> (University of Toronto Press); \u201c\u2018Impractical, Frivolous and Visionary\u2019: Quebec City\u2019s Push for an Annual Ice Bridge, 1811\u20131853,\u201d Urban History Review <\/i>52, no. 2 (2024): 385\u2013395; and with James Dean Hunter, The Story of Cumberland Fief and its Manors in the Chaudi\u00e8re Valley<\/i>, Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network, Heritage News (forthcoming).<\/p>\n

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