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- Title
Pitching, Pies and Piety: Early Twentieth Century St. Hedwig's Parish Picnics.
- Authors
BLANK, Joshua C.
- Abstract
During the colonization road era in Canada West, several immigrant groups came to settle in the area around Barry's Bay, Ontario. Piecing together information from oral sources, local newspaper articles, and photographs, this study aims to analyze the convergence of the most important aspect of the settlers' culture—religion—and an annual celebration—the parish picnic. Early twentieth century St. Hedwig's Parish picnics created a commensal sense of belonging among immigrant groups in Renfrew County. By examining the picnic's baseball game as a historical landscape, the playing field emerges as the site where gender, class and ethnicity were also negotiated and mediated.
- Subjects
RENFREW (Ont. : County); ONTARIO; CANADA; 20TH century Catholic Church history; BASEBALL; PICNICS; LEISURE; IMMIGRANTS; CHRISTIANITY; RELIGION; TWENTIETH century; CHURCH history; MANNERS &; customs
- Publication
Études d'Histoire Religieuse, 2010, Vol 76, p61
- ISSN
1193-199X
- Publication type
Article