The Same but Different: Hockey in Quebec

From coast to coast, hockey is played, watched, loved, and detested, but it means something different in Quebec. Although much of English Canada believes that hockey is a fanatically followed social unifier in the French-speaking province, in reality it has always been politicized, divided, and troubled by religion, class, gender, and language.

In The Same but Different, writers from inside and outside Quebec assess the game’s history and culture in the province from the nineteenth century t...