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Canada, Western --- History --- Bibliography --- -Canada, Western --- -Canadian Northwest --- West (Canada) --- Western Canada --- Northwest, Canadian --- -Bibliography

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A Thousand Miles of Prairie is a fascinating look at Manitoba's early boom years (1880-1910) through the eyes and words of some of the most interesting personalities of early Winnipeg. This collection brings together 14 pieces from the first decades of the Manitoba Historical Society, when its lectures were attended by the provinceís political and cultural elite. Jim Blanchard has chosen selections that give us a vivid taste of the diversity of intellectual life in turn of the century Manitoba. Besides writings by early historians such as George Bryce and Charles Bell, he includes a paper by the young Ernest Thompson Seton, who writes about his attempts to raise prairie chickens. There is also a description of the last passenger pigeons found in Manitoba. The collection includes lively personal reminscences, such as Gilbert McMicken, Canada's first spymaster, talking about foiling a Fenian raid on Winnipeg, and Archbishop Samuel Matheson, who tells about his boyhood adventures in the great Red River floods of the 1860s.

Manitoba --- Northwest, Canadian --- Province of Manitoba --- Province du Manitoba --- Rupert's Land --- Canadian Northwest --- West (Canada) --- Canada, Western --- History

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"Although a history of protest politics has done so much to define western Canada and to place it outside the Canadian mainstream, the aspirations and frustrations that animated western discontent over the years have been replaced by a new reality: the West is in, and many of the levers of national economic and political power rest in western Canadian hands. The protest tradition has yielded a dynamic region that leads rather than reacts to national economic, social, and political change."--Publisher's website

Regionalism --- Human geography --- Nationalism --- Interregionalism --- Canada, Western --- Canadian Northwest --- West (Canada) --- Western Canada --- Northwest, Canadian --- Economic policy. --- Politics and government. --- E-books

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The return of a classic, with a new introduction by Candace Savage. Frontier Farewell has been deemed "gracefully written" and "fully and meticulously researched," by Sharon Butala, while Canadian History Magazine called it "a great read that shatters the mythology surrounding the 'taming' of the West." A book every history buff should own, Frontier Farewell "ends with the disastrous bloodletting--the gruesome unwinding of a two-hudred year experiment," states Prairies North magazine. "Frontier Farewell offers new perspectives on everything from the transfer of Rupert's Land to Canada, the Manitoba Resistance of 1869-70, and the Numbered Treaties of the 1870s, to the surveys of the Canadian Prairies, the coming of the North-West Mounted Police, and the fallout from the Battle of the Little Big Horn.You just might want to buy two copies--one for yourself, and one for a friend." -Ted Binnema, Department of History, University of Northern British Columbia

Northwest, Canadian --- West (U.S.) --- Great Plains --- History --- Plains, Great --- Canadian Northwest --- West (Canada) --- Canada, Western --- buffalo, extinction, Plains, Aboriginal, wild west.

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Dunn investigates factors leading to the initiation and persistence of institutionalized cabinets in the governments of T.C. Douglas in Saskatchewan, Duff Roblin and Walter Weir in Manitoba, and W.R. Bennett in British Columbia. He describes the transition from unaided, or relatively uncoordinated, central executive structures to those that are more structured, collegial, and prone to emphasize planning and coordination. He also examines how the premier's role has expanded from simply choosing cabinets to reorganizing their structure and decision-making processes as well. The institutionalization of provincial cabinets has had major effects on both political actors and functions in the three provinces studied. Dunn shows that cabinet structure has changed, and been changed by, power relations within the cabinet.

Cabinet system --- Cabinet government --- Parliamentary government --- Political science --- Representative government and representation --- Saskatchewan. --- Manitoba. --- British Columbia. --- Canada, Western --- Canadian Northwest --- West (Canada) --- Western Canada --- Northwest, Canadian --- Politics and government.