Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Preface ix
5. Introduction xi
6. People of the Land: Population Changes in Saskatchewan 1
7. Saskatchewan’s Forgotten North: 1905 to 2005 13
8. Saskatchewan: A Distinct Political Culture 37
9. The Myth of Multiculturalism in Early Saskatchewan 57
10. MaskÊko-SÂKahikanihk: One Hundred Years for a Saskatchewan First Nation 75
11. Saskatchewan’s Path to Economic Development 105
12. One Hundred Years of Evolution in the Rural Economy 125
13. Canada’s “Co-Operative Province”: Individualism and Mutualism in a Settler Society, 1905 to 2005 149
14. Medicare: Saskatchewan’s Gift to the Nation? 175
15. The Prairie Face of Labour 199
16. The People’s University? The University of Saskatchewan and the Province of Saskatchewan 215
17. Science in Saskatchewan: The Early Years 233
18. Claiming Saskatchewan: Landscape Painting from 1905 to 1950 255
19. Abstract Art on the Prairies 273
20. Writing Saskatchewan: The First Hundred Years 289
21. Women’s Legislative and Political Participation in Saskatchewan, 1905 to 2005 307
22. An Ambiguous Inheritance: Church in Saskatchewan 329
23. Saskatchewan’s Diaspora 351
24. Notes on Contributors 369