Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One. Frameworks for Western Canadian
History
1. Critical History in Western Canada
1900–2000 / Gerald Friesen
2. Vernacular Currents in Western Canadian
Historiography: The Passion and Prose of Katherine Hughes, F. G. Roe,
and Roy Ito / Lyle Dick
3. Cree Intellectual Traditions in History /
Winona Wheeler
Part Two. The Aboriginal West
4. Visualizing Space, Race, and History in
the North: Photographic Narratives of the Athabasca-Mackenzie River
Basin / Matt Dyce and James Opp
5. The Kaleidoscope of Madness: Perceptions of
Insanity in British Columbia Aboriginal Populations, 1872–1950 /
Kathryn McKay
6. Space, Temporality, History: Encountering
Hauntings in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside / Amber
Dean
7. The Expectations of a Queen: Identity and Race
Politics in the Calgary Stampede / Susan L. Joudrey
Part Three. The Workers’ West
8. Capitalist Development, Forms of Labour, and
Class Formation in Prairie Canada / Jeffery Taylor
9. Two Wests, One-and-a-Half Paradigms, and,
Perhaps, Beyond / Elizabeth Jameson
10. Disease as Embodied Praxis: Epidemics, Public Health, and
Working-Class Resistance in Winnipeg, 1906–19 / Esyllt W.
Jones
11. Winnipeg’s Moment: The Winnipeg Postal Strike of 1919 /
John Willis
Part Four. Viewing the West from the Margins
12. “Our Negro Citizens”: An Example of Everyday
Citizenship Practices / Dan Cui and Jennifer R. Kelly
13. A Queer-Eye View of the Prairies: Reorienting Western Canadian
Histories / Valerie J. Korinek
14. Human Rights Law and Sexual Discrimination in British Columbia,
1953–84 / Dominique Clément
Part Five. Cultural Portrayals of the West
15. W. L. Morton, Margaret Laurence, and the Writing of Manitoba /
Robert Wardhaugh
16. The Banff Photographic Exchange: Albums, Youth, Skiing, and
Memory Making in the 1920s / Lauren Wheeler
17. Eric Harvie: Without and Within Robert Kroetsch’s Alibi /
Robyn Read
18. “It’s a Landmark in the Community”: The
Conservation of Historic Places in Saskatchewan, 1911–2009 /
Bruce Dawson
