The Promised Land: Settling the West 1896-1914 (66 page)

64
MacEwan,
Calgary Cavalcade
, p. 160.

65
Ibid.

66
CH, 27 April 1910.

67
Ibid.

68
RL, 3 Jan. 1912.

69
MFP, 3 June 1911.

70
CH, 6 Aug. 1912.

71
CH, 20 April 1910.

72
RL, 13 April 1912.

73
RL, 25 March 1912.

74
MacEwan,
Calgary Cavalcade
, p. 160.

75
Rasporich and Klassen,
Frontier Calgary
, p. 210.

76
Ibid., p. 213.

77
Rees, p. 53.

78
Cashman,
Edmonton Story
, p. 155.

79
CH, 4 Jan. 1911.

80
Rasporich and Klassen,
Frontier Calgary
, pp. 214–15.

81
RL, 3 July 1912.

82
Dempsey,
Best from Alberta History
, p. 154.

83
Rasporich and Klassen,
Frontier Calgary
, p. 213.

84
Bickersteth, pp. 111–12.

85
EB, 13 May 1912.

86
EB, 13 May and 14 May 1912.

87
Ibid.

88
EB, 14 May 1912.

89
Ibid.

90
Ibid.

91
MacEwan,
Calgary Cavalcade
, p. 162.

92
Berton,
Last Spike
, pp. 52–82.

93
Rees, p. 57.

94
Kerr, p. 17.

95
Ibid., p. 20.

96
Rees, p. 54.

97
Kerr, p. 27.

98
Ibid., p. 17.

99
CH, 10 June 1913.

100
Rees, p. 58.

101
PAC, MG 27 II D15, 19 Feb. 1913, Turriff to Sifton.

102
CH, 2 July 1913.

103
CH, 13 Aug. 1913.

104
Kerr, p. 26.

105
Skelton,
Railway
, p. 238.

106
Ibid.

107
Regehr, p. 198.

108
Kerr, p. 16.

109
Berton, “Edmonton.”

110
Ibid.

111
Rasporich and Klassen,
Frontier Calgary
, p. 211.

112
Eye Opener
, 24 Aug. 1912.

113
Dempsey,
Best from Alberta History
, p. 158.

114
Rees, pp. 56–57.

115
Vandermeulen, p. 198.

116
MFP, 17 Aug. 1914.

Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Other Books by This Author

Map

Prologue: Professor Oleskow’s Vision

CHAPTER ONE: THE YOUNG NAPOLEON OF THE WEST

1. The new broom

2. The hard sell

3. A political animal

4. The spoils system

5. The Free Press changes hands

6. Master and servant

CHAPTER TWO: THE SHEEPSKIN PEOPLE

1. The long voyage

2. “Dirty, ignorant Slavs”

3. The Galician vote

4. The melting-pot syndrome

CHAPTER THREE: THE SPIRIT WRESTLERS

1. The Universal Brotherhood

2. “Greetings, Doukhobors!”

3. The “peculiar people”

4. The Sons of God

5. Peter the Lordly

CHAPTER FOUR: ISAAC BARR’S LAMBS

1. Barr’s dream

2. Quite a hustler

3. Stormy passage

4. Indignation meetings

5. Trekking to Britannia

CHAPTER FIVE: THE PROBLEM OF THE ENGLISH

1. No Englishmen need apply

2. Remittance men

3. Lloydminster

4. The Odyssey of Ella Sykes

5. Don’t come back, Dad

CHAPTER SIX: THE AMERICAN INVASION

1. Will White thinks big

2. Catching the fever

3. Keeping out the Blacks

4. Loosening Imperial ties

CHAPTER SEVEN: THE PASSING OF THE OLD ORDER

1. Sifton’s mysterious departure

2. The new era

3. The Indian dilemma

4. The Imperial Force

CHAPTER EIGHT: THE SIFTON SCANDALS

1. The Minister’s reputation

2. The mysterious company

3. A favoured relative

4. Big Jim’s political clout

5. Cheating the Indians

6. Everybody’s doing it

CHAPTER NINE: THE SPIRIT OF THE WEST

1. West versus East

2. The common experience

3. The Western ethic

4. Bob Edwards and the Eye Opener

5. Radicalism and populism

6. The un-Western Westerner

CHAPTER TEN: THE DARK SIDE OF BOOSTERISM

1. The image makers

2. Slums and brothels

3. The Social Gospel

4. Our Nellie

CHAPTER ELEVEN: BOOM AND BUST

1. Railway madness

2. The land frenzy

3. Get your feet wet

4. The lottery

5. Shattered dreams

Epilogue: On the Winnipeg Platform

Author’s Note

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Notes