In 1892, Lord Frederick Arthur Stanley donated the Dominion Hockey
Challenge Cup - later known as the Stanley Cup - to crown the first
Canadian hockey champions. Canada's Holy Grail documents Lord
Stanley's personal politics, his desire to affect Canadian
nationality and unity, and the larger transformations in
Anglo-liberal political thought at the time. This book posits that
the Stanley Cup fit directly within Anglo-American traditions of
using sport to promote ideas of the national, and the donation of
the cup occurred at a moment in history when Canadian nationalists
needed identifying symbols. Jordan B. Goldstein asserts that only
with a transformation in Anglo-liberal thought could the state
legitimately act through culture to affect national identity.
Drawing on primary source documentation from Lord Stanley's
archives, as well as statements by politicians and hockey
enthusiasts, Canada's Holy Grail integrates political thought into
the realm of sport history through the discussion of a championship
trophy that still stands as one of the most well-known and
recognized Canadian national symbols.
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