<i>Papas de la patinoire</i> : Hockey Dads and Responsible Family Manhood in Twentieth-Century Québec <sup/>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Recent research on the history of fatherhood shows how paternal roles were shifting in the twentieth century, with fathers becoming less distant and authoritarian and more involved in their children’s education and leisure pursuits. The place of sport in this transformation merits serious examination especially – in a Québec context – where hockey is concerned. There is little Québec literature on the Hockey Dad, that iconic figure, which in English Canada is readily associated with the much-admired Walter Gretzky. Yet the Québécois versions of this narrative date back to the interwar years and can be gleaned from the published life writing of celebrated athletes such as Maurice Richard, Jean Béliveau, Bernard Geoffrion, and others. This article analyzes a modest collection of hockey-themed memoirs and autobiographies to do three things. First, it argues that the figure of the Québec Hockey Dad – or papa de la patinoire, to coin a phrase – was most often constructed in such a way as to embody the most honored and respected masculine qualities associated with this particular time, place, and culture. Second, it presents a close, against-the-grain reading of these same sources, showing how variations from the common central narrative, as well as certain silences within it, are just as important and revealing as the conventional script. Third, it introduces some more recent narratives, written by and about hockey players born after 1960, to further unsettle and problematize the comfortable, mid-century narrative of the responsible family man as Hockey Dad.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".