Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Introduction ix
4. Visions of the Promised Land
5. The Promise of the West as Settlement Frontier 3
6. Adventurers in the Promised Land: British Writers in the Canadian North West, 1841–1913 29
7. Canada’s Rocky Mountain Parks: Rationality, Romanticism, and a Modern Canada 53
8. Clifford Sifton’s Vision of the Prairie West 77
9. Settling the Promised Land
10. “We Must Farm to Enable us to Live”: The Plains Cree and Agriculture to 1900 103
11. Utopian Ideals and Community Settlements in Western Canada, 1880–1914 127
12. “Land i can Own”: Settling in the Promised Land 155
13. Envisioning the Prairie West as a Perfect Society
14. The City yes, the City no: Perfection by Design in the Western City 177
15. Land of the Second Chance: Nellie Mcclung’s Vision of the Prairie West as Promised Land 199
16. The Kingdom of God on the Prairies: J. S. Woodsworth’s Vision of the Prairie West as Promised Land 225
17. “A Far Green Country Unto a Swift Sunrise”: The Utopianism of the Alberta Farm Movement, 1909–1923 243
18. A Promised Land for the “Chosen People”
19. “No Place for a Woman”: Engendering Western Canadian Settlement 261
20. Preaching Purity in the Promised Land: Bishop Lloyd and the Immigration Debate 291
21. Policing the Promised Land: The RCMP and Negative Nation-Building in Alberta and Saskatchewan in the Interwar Period 313
22. Readjusting the Vision of the Promised Land in the Modern Era
23. Uncertain Promise: The Prairie Farmer and the Post-War Era 335
24. The Artist’s Eye: Modernist and Postmodernist Visualizations of the Prairie West 355
25. The Dream Still Lives: Promised Land Narratives During the Saskatchewan Golden Jubilee 379
26. From Farm to Community: Co-Operatives in Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1905–2005 405
27. Notes on Contributors 433
28. Index 437