The Prairie West as promised land

Francis, R. D. (R. Douglas), 1944- (Added Author). Kitzan, Chris, 1970- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9781552382301 (pbk.)
ISBN: 1552382303 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xxiv, 462 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Calgary : University of Calgary Press, c2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.