Editing Leisure (section)

=== Canada ===
In Canada, leisure in the country is related to the decline in work hours and is shaped by moral values, and the ethnic-religious and gender communities. In a cold country with winter's long nights, and summer's extended daylight, favorite leisure activities include horse racing, team sports such as hockey, singalongs, roller skating and board games.<ref>Suzanne Morton, "Leisure", ''Oxford Companion to Canadian History'' (2006) pp. 355–356.</ref><ref>George Karlis, ''Leisure and recreation in Canadian society: An introduction'' (2011).</ref><ref>Gerald Redmond, "Some Aspects of Organized Sport and Leisure in Nineteenth-Century Canada." ''Loisir et société/Society and Leisure'' 2#1 (1979): 71–100.</ref>  The churches tried to steer leisure activities, by preaching against drinking and scheduling annual revivals and weekly club activities.<ref>{{cite book|author=Lynne Sorrel Marks|title=Revivals and Roller Rinks: Religion, Leisure, and Identity in Late-nineteenth-century Small-town Ontario|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2T4miKwsIIcC&pg=PR1|year=1996|publisher=University of Toronto Press |isbn=978-0802078001}}</ref>  By 1930 radio played a major role in uniting Canadians behind their local or regional hockey teams. Play-by-play sports coverage, especially of ice hockey, absorbed fans far more intensely than newspaper accounts the next day.  Rural areas were especially influenced by sports coverage.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Lorenz | first1 = Stacy L. | year = 2000 | title = A Lively Interest on the Prairies": Western Canada, the Mass Media, and a 'World of Sport,' 1870–1939 | journal = Journal of Sport History | volume = 27 | issue = 2| pages = 195–227 }}</ref>