Developing Athletes: The St. Catharines Grads

The 1938 St. Catharines Grads basketball team, formed in the 1920s, achieved early success, including an Ontario Basketball Championship victory, and is featured in a museum exhibition.

Yearbook Flip: Girls Athletics

In reflecting on International Women’s Day last month, and the theme of #BalanceforBetter, I wanted to explore how female teenagers were represented in the sports pages of St. Catharines High School yearbooks. Due to traditional ideas of gender roles, athletics in North America have a long history of being male-centered and male-dominated. How did students work to address this imbalance in St. Catharines high schools in the twentieth century?