The Canadian Prairies: A HistoryNative leaders, immigrant farm families, Alberta oil barons, and political reformers all have prominent roles in this live and comprehensive history of the prairie west. Drawing upon recent research- hundreds of books, articles, and government reports- in native, labour, and urban history, as well as his own work in social and intellectual movements, Gerald Friesen has created a new, authoritative interpretation of the prairie experience. |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
An introduction | 10 |
The natives fur trade 16401840 | 22 |
The Europeans fur trade 16401805 | 45 |
The metis and the Red River settlement 184470 | 91 |
The end of autonomy | 129 |
First new province of the dominion | 195 |
War and politics | 220 |
Acknowledgements 8 | 544 |
Ricciarda by Giovanni Gherardi da Prato 19 | 555 |
Ricciarda 25 | 561 |
THREE | 600 |
Bianco Alfani by Piero Veneziano 95 | 631 |
Bianco Alfani 117 | 653 |
Giacoppo by Lorenzo de Medici 141 | 677 |
Giacoppo 153 | 689 |
Politics and culture 190029 | 339 |
The Depression 193040 | 382 |
Political and economic change | 418 |
Conclusion | 461 |
Bibliographic Commentary 243 | 779 |
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