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| Freda Haszard, Marion Whear and Annie Johnson at the Charlottetown Tennis Club, ca. 1916 |
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| Dramatic and Musical Entertainment Programme of the Fitzroy and Micmac Lawn Tennis Clubs, 1889 |
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| The example set by the Charlottetown Cricket Club gradually inspired the organization of other sporting clubs on the Island. Lawn tennis became one of the next sports to officially organize. Invented in 1873 by British Army Officer, Major Walter C. Wingfield, lawn tennis reached Canada two years later, making its first appearance on Prince Edward Island by the end of the decade. The Fitzroy Lawn Tennis Club of Charlottetown was the first to organize in the province. This was soon followed by the creation of the Summerside Lawn Tennis Club in 1881 and the Micmac Lawn Tennis Club of Charlottetown in 1883. During a period when sport was viewed primarily as the preserve of male participants, the introduction of lawn tennis to the Island was most notable for the opportunity it afforded women to actively engage in sporting activity alongside their male counterparts. | | Next>>> | | Previous<<< |
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