Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Foreword “Te best-laid schemes …/ go oft awry,” Te Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration in Time xi
5. Acknowledgments xxii
6. Abbreviations xxiv
7. Introduction: Rethinking the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration 1
8. 1 Contexts and Mistakes Te Early Years of the PFRA, 1935–46 18
9. 2 Delimiting the Public Good: Irrigation, Racism, and Sugar Beets in Alberta, 1890s–1940s 42
10. 3 Intensifcation and Simplifcation: Te PFRA’s Community Pastures, 1930s–60s 61
11. 4 Construction and Change: Negotiating the South Saskatchewan Regional Plan, 1940s–50s 81
12. 5 Rehabilitation and Colonialism: Te PFRA and Prairie Indigenous Peoples, 1930s–60s 100
13. 6 Te PFRA Overseas: Remaking Water Patterns in Northern Ghana, 1965–70 120
14. 7 Hope and Disappointment: Te PFRA in the 1960s and 1970s 144
15. Conclusion: Te Prairie Farm Transformation Administration 160
16. Notes 175
17. Bibliography 240
18. Index 278