All of our history can show us. And when it does, we may find we come away with a certain assurance, a strange sense of common purpose, a feeling of continuity with our past. No longer are we homeless. We know now where we live. The sub-title A Journalistic History of the Province, indicates the form in which events are presented.
Headlines start each chapter, which make up sections devoted to a span of years.
Information is readily available for students, researchers and readers interested in Alberta's history. Furthermore, the writing is not just dates and facts, bur also includes stories of people with names some well known others forgotten. The stories are supported by archival photos and sketches and the events described span politics to disasters life in Alberta is covered from every viewpoint. These are only printed in green but also placed close by in the left margin. There is an index which is useful to locate names, places etc.