Developing the West

357 Pages·1983·17.259 MB·English

by  John Foster

The Developing West
Essays on Canadian History
in Honor of Lewis H.Thomas
edited by John E. Foster
The University of Alberta Press
First published by
The University of Alberta Press
450 Athabasca Hall
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada T6G 2E8
Copyright ©The University of Alberta Press 1983
ISBN 0-88864-035-8
Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Main entry under title:
The Developing West
ISBN 0-88864-035-8
1. Prairie Provinces—History—Addresses,
essays, lectures. I. Thomas, Lewis H., 1917-
II. Foster, John Elgin.
FC3242.D48 971.2'02 C82-091094-5
F1060.9.D48
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The Developing West
Lewis H. Thomas
.Contents
List of Contributors / vii
Acknowledgements / ix
Introduction / 1
John E. Foster
Lewis Herbert Thomas: A Biographical Sketch / 11
Lewis Gwynne Thomas
The Hudson's Bay Company's Prairie Transportation
Problem, 1870-85 / 25
A.A. den Otter
The "Private Adventurers" of Rupert's Land / 49
Irene M. Spry
New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and the North-West
Rebellion, 1885 / 71
George F. G. Stanley
Stony Indian Medicine / 101
Eleanor G. Luxton
"What if Mama is an Indian?": The Cultural Ambivalence of the
Alexander Ross Family / 123
Sylvia M. Van Kirk
The Telegraph and Community Formation in the North-West
Territories / 137
David R. Richeson
vi / Contents
Population Growth in Western Canada, 1901-71 / 155
W. Peter Ward
Urban Land Speculation in the Development of Strathcona
(South Edmonton), 1891-1912 / 179
John E Gilpin
The Location of Experimental Farms and Illustration Stations:
An Agricultural or Political Consideration? /201
W. Leland Clark
JJ. Maloney: How the West was saved from Rome, Quebec, and
the Liberals / 219
Raymond J. A. Huel
C.A. Dunning, 1916-30: The Rise and Fall of a Western Agrarian
Liberal / 243
/ William Brennan
"Misfits," "Malingerers," and "Malcontents": The British Harvester
Movement of 1928 / 271
W.J.C. Cherwinski
Bankers and Farmers in Western Canada, 1900-1939 / 303
T.D. Regehr
Appendix: Lewis H. Thomas Bibliography / 337
Contributors
Brennan, J. William Department of History, University of
Regina
Cherwinski, W.J.C. Department of History, Memorial
University of Newfoundland
Clark, W. Leland Department of History, Brandon
University
den Otter, A.A. Department of History, Memorial
University of Newfoundland
Foster, John E. Department of History, University of
Alberta
Gilpin, John E Historic Sites Service, Alberta Culture,
Edmonton, Alberta
Huel, Raymond J.A. Department of History, University of
Lethbridge
Luxton, Eleanor G. Banff, Alberta
Regehr, T.D. Department of History, University of
Saskatchewan
Richeson, David R. National Museum of Man, Ottawa,
Ontario
Spry, Irene M. Professor Emeritus, University of Ottawa
Stanley, George E G. Professor Emeritus, Mount Allison
University and Royal Military College