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Eroding a Way of Life

By (author) Murray Knuttila
Categories: Rural communities

An analysis of how neoliberal policies have radically restructured farming in Western Canada.

The establishment of a Western Canadian economy dominated by family farming was part of the government’s ...

Building Inclusive Communities in Rural Canada

Edited by Clark Banack & Dionne Pohler
Categories: Rural communities

This collection challenges misconceptions that rural Canada is a bastion of intolerance. While examining the extent and nature of contemporary cultural and religious discrimination in rural Canadian communities, ...

Our Rural Selves

Life in the countryside, often perceived as either idyllic or depleted, has long been misrepresented. Challenging the stereotypes and myths that surround the idea of rurality, Our Rural Selves interrogates ...

Horse-and-Buggy Genius

In both North and South America, many ultra-traditional Mennonites rejected the modern world, especially its icon the automobile. They became known as “horse-and-buggy” people. Historian Royden Loewen, ...

Sustainability Planning and Collaboration in Rural Canada

In step with rural development initiatives across Canada today, these fourteen case studies examine the shift toward sustainability-based planning as a key element of community development. They also ...

The Cowboy Legend

By (author) John Jennings
Categories: Literature: history and criticism
Series: The West

In The Cowboy Legend, John Jennings details the evidence that Everett Johnson was the initial and prime inspiration for Wister’s cowboy, and in the process shows that Johnson led a fascinating life ...

Happyland

By (author) Curtis McManus
Categories: Rural communities
Series: The West

"Dirty Thirties" is the sobriquet commonly applied to the agricultural crisis in the drylands of southern Saskatchewan in Canada that coincided with the Great Depression, and it is generally assumed that ...

Farmers “Making Good”

By (author) Lyle Dick
Categories: Social and cultural history
Series: Parks and Heritage

In this newly revised edition of the widely praised original, published in 1989, Lyle Dick revisits the Abernethy district of Saskatchewan and his microhistorical analysis of the development of this prairie ...

The Prairie West as Promised Land

So the emblem of the West
Our bright Maple Leaf is bless’d
To its children of the goodly open hand;
All the nations of the earth
Are now learning of its worth
And are flocking to this wealthy, promised ...