Canada’s Holy Grail: Lord Stanley’s Political Motivation to Donate the Stanley Cup

List of Illustrations, Maps, Photographs
Tables
Foreword
Acknowledgements

Introduction

Contentions, Argument, Interpretation
A Note on Method and Methodology
Contribution to the Body of Knowledge
Chapters
Endnotes

Section I: The National

1. Canada 1888

Domestic Affairs: Expansion and Consolidation
Foreign Affairs: Sovereignty and Dependence
Ideological Battle
Endnotes

2. Enshrining the National

Not a True Nation
The Genesis of Nationalized Sport in Great Britain
Nationalized Sport in the United States
The Mixed Political Heritage of Confederation
British Origins of Canadian Sport
American Permutation of Canadian Sport 
Canadian Nationalized Sport
Nineteenth-Century Political Thought and the Evolution of Nationalized Sport
Endnotes

Section II: The Personal

3. An Honoured Member of Parliament

The Early Life of Frederick Arthur Stanley
The Politics of the 14th Earl of Derby
The Politics of Frederick Stanley: Practical Governance
The Politics of Frederick Stanley: Emergent Progressivism
Towards a New Liberalism
Endnotes

4. Overseeing the Crown Dominion

Lord Stanley’s Governance in Canada
Domestic Governance
International Governance
Canadian Travels
The Role of Sport
Sport and the Stanley Family
Stanley and Canadian Sports
The Stanley Family and Winter Sport
Defining the National
Endnotes

Section III: The International

5. What Does It Mean to Be Canadian?

Debates over Canada’s Future
Canada First and the Birth of Canadian Nationality
Unlimited Reciprocity, Continental Union, and Annexation
Wilfrid Laurier and Unrestricted Reciprocity
Protectionism, Imperialism, and Progressivism
Federal Election of 1891
Stanley’s Position 
The Use of Sport to Promote National Identity
Imperial Federation and Progressivism
Sport in the Promotion of Imperial Connection
The Place of Ice Hockey
The Role of the Stanley Cup
Canada is a British Nation
Endnotes

6. National Sport, the State, and Political Thought

Philosophical Revolution 
Lord Stanley and Canada 
Endnotes

Notes on Sources
Literature Review
Sources of Note
 
Bibliography
Primary Sources