Tracking the History of Recreation in Canada
Where is recreation in Canada going? There has been a renewed focus on recreation with the National Recreation Summit in Lake Louise in the Fall of 2011 and the National Recreation Agenda gathering in New Brunswick in Spring 2013. What came out of these gatherings? Were we rehashing old ground.... Maybe we need to walk through the electronic archives at the Leisure Information Network and begin piecing our history together. (That may also be a call for the government and association folks to contribute some of their archived materials to LIN to help the historians get the story straight or maybe just less cloudy) Sport & Politics in Canada Federal Government Involvement Since 1961 Fitness and Amateur Sport Act 1961 (TBF) Address by Walter H. Kaasa Re Arts and Recreation Policy - 1974 Towards a National Policy on Fitness and Recreation (1978) Iona Campagnola Minister of State Fitness & Amateur Sport 1976 -79 Minister