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The Prairie West as promised land /

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9781552382301

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The Prairie West as promised land /

[Book]

edited by R. Douglas Francis & Chris Kitzan.

Calgary :

University of Calgary Press,

©2007.

xxiv, 462 pages :

illustrations ;

23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The promise of the West as settlement frontier -- Adventures in the promised land: British writers in the Canadian North West, 1841-1913 -- Canada's Rocky Mountain parks: rationality, romanticism, and modern Canada -- Clifford Sifton's vision of the prairie West -- "We must farm to enable us to live": the plains Cree and agriculture to 1900 -- Utopian ideals and community settlements in Western Canada, 1880-1914 -- "Land I can own": settling in the promised land -- The city yes, the city no: perfection by design in the Western city -- Land of the second chance: Nellie McClung's vision of the prairie West as promised land -- The kingdom of God on the prairie: J.S. Woodsworth's vision of the prairie West as promised land -- "A far green country unto a swift sunrise": the utopianism of the Alberta farm movement, 1909-1923 -- "No place for a woman": engendering Western Canadian settlement -- Preaching purity in the promised land: Bishop Lloyd and the immigration debate -- Policing the promised land: the RCMP and negative nation-building in Alberta and Saskatchewan in the interwar period -- Uncertain promise: the prairie farmer and the post-war era -- The artist's eye: modernist and postmodernist visualizations of the prairie West --- The dream still lives: promised land narratives during the Saskatchewan Golden jubilee -- From farm to community: Co-operatives in Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1905-2005.

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Millions of immigrants were attracted to the Canadian West by promotional literature from the government in the late 19th century to the First World War bringing with them visions of opportunity to create a Utopian society or a chance to take control of their own destinies.

Utopies-- Provinces des Prairies-- Histoire.

Utopies-- Provinces des Prairies-- Histoire.

Prärie

Prärie

Prairie Provinces, History, Textbooks.

Provinces des Prairies, Histoire.

Provinces des Prairies, Histoire.

Canada, History.

Kanada, West

Prairie Provinces.

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Francis, R. D., (R. Douglas),1944-

Kitzan, Chris,1970-

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