Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Introduction to Drought & Depression 1
6. PART I Drought in the Dry Belt: Precursor to the Great Depression
7. 1. The Dry Belt and Changing Aridity in the Palliser Triangle, 1895–2000 11
8. 2. Schools and Social Disintegration in the Alberta Dry Belt of the Twenties 27
9. 3. Institutional Adaptation to Drought and the Special Areas of Alberta, 1909–1939 49
10. 4. History, Public Memory, and the Land Abandonment Crisis of the 1920s 69
11. PART II Dislocation and Conflict
12. 5. Bienfait: Origins and Legacy of the Coal Miners’ Strike of 1931 87
13. 6. Unemployed Struggles in Saskatchewan and Canada, 1930–1935 109
14. 7. No Help for the Farm Help: The Farm Employment Plans of the 1930s in Prairie Canada 139
15. 8. Soldier Settlement and Depression Settlement in the Forest Fringe of Saskatchewan 163
16. 9. Homesteading in Northern Alberta during the Great Depression: A Life History Approach 187
17. PART III Policy, Politics, and Lasting Perceptions
18. 10. The Red Cross and Relief in Alberta, 1920s–1930s 213
19. 11. From Short-Term Emergency to Long-Term Crisis: Public Works Projects in Saskatoon, 1929–1932 237
20. 12. Robert Weir: Forgotten Farmer-Minister in R. B. Bennett’s Depression-Era Cabinet 261
21. 13. Alberta Social Credit Reappraised: The Radical Character of the Early Social Credit Movement 295
22. 14. The Rural Prairie Novel and the Great Depression 317
23. Index 335