Judo in the United States however, the lecture had little effect on mainstream judo growth. The first American to actually study judo was Prof. Ladd from Yale University, in 1889. He trained at the Kodokan in Japan for about ten years; by 1908 about 13 Americans were training there. In 1919, Prof. John Dewey of Columbia University came to visit Prof. Ladd and Master Kano, many years later he took his knowledge back to Columbia and began the first U.S. college judo program. While some students were training in Japan there was some action in the U.S. Perhaps one of the most important figures in
Judo in Canada aspects of Judo. The most complete history of Canadian Judo is Glynn Leyshon's "Judoka: the history of Judo in Canada" (1998). However, while Leyshon is Professor Emeritus of Kinesiology at the University of Western Ontario, "Judoka" is a popular history published by Judo Canada rather than an academic study. Anne Doré's article "Japanese-Canadian Sport History in the Fraser Valley: Judo and Baseball in the Interwar Years" (2002) and Joseph Svinth's book "Getting a Grip: Judo in the Nikkei Communities of the Pacific Northwest, 1900-1950" (2003) both address the history of Judo in British Columbia. Luiz Moraes' PhD thesis in Education