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| Title: | Prairie West as Promised Land
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| Author: | R Douglas Francis & Chris Kitzan (eds) |
| ISBN: | 1552382303 : 9781552382301 |
| Illustrations: | b/w photos, charts |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 462 |
| Weight: | .724 Kg. |
| Published: | University of Calgary Press - July 2007 |
| List Price: | 32.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Canada: Historiography |
In 1906, the Sugar Maple Tree Song was just one example of the rhapsodic pieces that touted the Canadian West as the "promised land". In the formative years of agricultural settlement from the mid-nineteenth century to the First World War, the Canadian government, along with the railways & other Prairie boosters, further developed & propagated the image within the widely distributed promotional literature that was used to attract millions of immigrants from all corners of the world. The West was ripe with promise for those wishing to escape religious persecution, unproductive land, or intolerable living & working conditions. Some saw the Prairies as an ideal place to create a Utopian society. others seized the chance to take control of their own destinies in a new & exciting place. Whatever the case, the image of the West as a place of unbridled prosperity & opportunity became the dominant perception of the region at the time. This group of essays, which includes contributions from some of the best-known Prairie historians as well as some of the most promising new scholars in the field, explores this pervasive theme in western history & makes an important contribution to the historiography of the Prairie West.
The Promise of the West as Settlement Frontier. Adventurers in the Promised Land: British Writers in the Canadian North West, 1841-1913. Canada's Rocky Mountain Parks: Rationality, Romanticism, & a Modern Canada. Clifford Sifton's Vision of the Prairie. "We Must Farm to Enable Us to Live": The Plains Cree & Agriculture to 1900. Utopian Ideals & 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 Prairies: 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 & the Immigration Debate. Policing the Promised Land: The RCMP & Negative Nation-Building in Alberta & Saskatchewan in the Interwar Period. Uncertain Promise: The Prairie Farmer & the Post-War Era. The Artist's Eye: Modernist & Postmodern 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 & Saskatchewan, 1905-2005.
