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Prairie West to 1905: A Canadian Sourcebook
Contributor(s): Thomas, Lewis G. (Author)

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ISBN: 0195402499     ISBN-13: 9780195402490
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE: $33.25  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: February 1975
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Travel | Canada - Prairie Provinces (mb, Sk)
- History | Canada - Post-confederation (1867-)
- Law | Government - Federal
Dewey: 971.202
LCCN: 76375608
Physical Information: 0.84" H x 6" W x 9" L (1.22 lbs) 378 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Canadian
- Ethnic Orientation - Native American
Features: Bibliography, Maps
 
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Publisher Description:
When the prairie region was transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, the central government acquired control over a territory that had a 200-year history of economic and cultural interchange between Indians mixed-bloods, and whites. The federal government was determined to
administer the new lands in the interests of the dominion as a whole, and to that end the relationship of the prairie west to the central government was to be that of a colony, a statement borne out by the acts establishing Manitoba and later Saskatchewan and Alberta as provinces, for control over
the public lands and resources in all three provinces was retained by the federal government until as late as 1930. Furthermore, the federal government wished to see established in the prairie west a society based on the values that were thought to be embodied in Central Canada, the values of a
peaceful, ordered, and law-abiding community-essentially British values.
 
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