Amongst notable Metis people are television actor Tom Jackson

Popular culture 
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 

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leisure activities include horse racing, team sports such as hockey, singalongs, 
Roller-skating and board games. The churches tried to steer leisure activities, by 
preaching against drinking and scheduling annual revivals and weekly club 
activities. 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. Canadians in the 19th 
century came to believe themselves possessed of a unique "northern character," 
due to the long, harsh winters that only those of hardy body and mind could 
survive. This hardiness was claimed as a Canadian trait, and such sports as ice 
hockey and snowshoeing that reflected this were asserted as characteristically 
Canadian. Outside the sports arena Canadians express the national characteristics 
of being peaceful, orderly and polite. Inside they scream their lungs out at ice 
hockey games, cheering the speed, ferocity, and violence, making hockey an 
ambiguous symbol of Canada. 
Popular culture 
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. 
The churches tried to steer leisure activities, by preaching against drinking 
and scheduling annual revivals and weekly club activities. 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. Canadians in the 19th century came to believe themselves 
possessed of a unique "northern character," due to the long, harsh winters that only 
those of hardy body and mind could survive. This hardiness was claimed as a 

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Canadian trait, and such sports as ice hockey and snowshoeing that reflected this 
were asserted as characteristically Canadian. Outside the sports arena Canadians 
express the national characteristics of being peaceful, orderly and polite. Inside 
they scream their lungs out at ice hockey games, cheering the speed, ferocity, and 
violence, making hockey an ambiguous symbol of Canada. 
Support for Great Britain during the First World War caused a major 
political crisis over conscription, with Francophones, mainly from Quebec, 
rejecting national policies. During the crisis, large numbers of enemy aliens 
(especially Ukrainians and Germans) were put under government controls. The 
Liberal party was deeply split, with most of its Anglophone leaders joining the 
unionist government headed by Prime Minister Robert Borden, the leader of the 
Conservative party. The Liberals regained their influence after the war under the 
leadership of William Lyon Mackenzie King, who served as prime minister with 
three separate terms between 1921 and 1949.