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Happyland

A History of the "Dirty Thirties" in Saskatchewan, 1914-1937

Par (auteur) Curtis McManus
Catégories: Collectivités rurales, Groupes sociaux, Sciences sociales et culturelles, Sciences humaines et sociales
Séries: The West
Éditeur: University of Calgary Press
Paperback : 9781552385241, 336 pages, Juin 2011
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Table des matières

 

Introduction: Oblivion
1. The Descent
2. "In the Thrill Zone of the Onrushing Calamity"
Photos: Before the "Dirty Thirties"
Interlude: A Collection of Absurdities
3. Hard Time
4. Exodus
Photos: During the "Dirty Thirties"
Interlude: Public Health
5. The Wreck of ‘37
Conclusion: Oblivion (redux)

Appendices
Population Losses: An Overview
Losses of "Resident Farmers"
Population Losses, Central and South–East
Population Increases: An Overview
Tax Arrears and Tax Sale Holdings
Municipal Relief Debt and Provincial Seed/Relief Loans

Notes
Bibliography
Index

 

La description

"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 prior to this period healthier, normal conditions prevailed. In Happyland, Curtis McManus contends that the "Dirty Thirties" actually began much earlier and were connected only peripherally to the Depression itself. McManus has mined the rarely consulted records of Rural Municipalities in Saskatchewan, as well as government documents, ministerial correspondence, local community histories, newspapers, and publications of relevant government departments, to tell a story of a quarter-century of stubborn persistence but also of absurdity, despair, social dislocation, moral corrosion, and inconsistent and often inept government policy. Thanks to McManus's rare and welcome blend of sound scholarship and living breathing prose, it is a gripping and evocative story as well.

Récompenses

  • Short-listed, Scholarly Writing Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards 2012
  • Winner, Nonfiction Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards 2012
  • Short-listed, Book of the Year, Saskatchewan Book Awards 2012
  • Short-listed, First Book Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards 2012
  • Winner, Saskatchewan Book Awards - Nonfiction 2012
  • Short-listed, Saskatchewan Book Awards - Scholarly Writing 2012

Reviews

 

McManus makes effective use of the records of ten (of the ninety) rural municipalities in this region, as well as local newspapers and community history books, to document the economic, social, and psychological consequences of the recurring droughts

—J. William Brennan, The Canadian Historical Review

 

 

Happyland is a joy to read.

—Margaret DH, GoodReads

 

 

Happyland is written with verve and confidence. McManus is deeply engaged with the subject and his enthusiasm is contagious . . . Happyland tells a story that needs to be told, a great human tragedy that we have not yet fully
fathomed.

—James M. Pitsula, Literary Review of Canada