The Settlement of the West
By: (edited by) Howard Palmer.
Contributors: Palmer, Howard.
Publisher: University of Calgary
Published: 1977
Place of publication: (Calgary, Alta.)
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- Prairie Provinces -- Addresses, essays, lectures.; Land settlement -- Prairie Provinces -- History -- Addresses, essays, lectures.; Prairie Provinces -- History -- Addresses, essays, lectures.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Flanagan, T. Louis Riel, insanity and prophecy.; value: Thomas, L. H. A judicial murder.; value: Hall, D. J. Clifford Sifton, immigration and settlement policy, 1896-1905.; value: Troper, H. Public versus private land promotion.; value: Dahlie, J. Scandinavian experiences on the prairies, 1890-1920.; value: Eggleston, W. The old homestead.; value: Kerr, D. Wholesale trade on the Canadian plains in the late ninteenth century.; value: Carpenter, D. C. Patrified mummies and mummified daddies.; value: McGinnis, D. Farm labour in transition.; value: Anderson, A. B. Ethnic identity in Saskatchewan bloc settlements.; value: Wright, R. W. and Mansell, R. L. The role of migration inAlberta's economic development, 1975-1985.