Cover
Trails, Trains, and Airplanes
Parks, Towns, and Polls
Place, Politics, and Studying Western Canada: An Introduction
Farms
Trails, Trains, and Airplanes
Books, Films, and Journals
Parks, Towns, and Polls
Notes
Erasing and Replacing: Property and Homestead Rightsof First Nations Farmers of Manitoba and the Northwest, 1870s–1910s
Notes
Murdoch v. Murdoch: Feminism, Property, and the Prairie Farm in the 1970s
Notes
Examining the Future of First Nations Agriculture by Exploring the Implications of the Manitoba Indian Agricultural Program
A Historical Overview of MIAP
Post-MIAP
Strengths
Barriers
Opportunities for Development
MIAP: Final Comments
Notes
Introduction
Commemorating the Nation
Regional Markers of the March West
History in Murals
Material History
Parallel Perspectives
Conclusion
Notes
Preventing the Loss of Imported Labour: Trains, Migrants, and the Development of the Canadian West, 1896-1932
Notes
Railways, Racism, and Chineseness on the Prairies
Racism
The Impact of Railway Experiences on Chinese Lives
Merchants and Ministers on the Train
Notes
Trains, Text, and Time: The Emigration of Canadian Mennonites to Latin America,1922-1948
The Diary: The Train as an Imposition of Industrial Time, 1948
The Letter: Train Stations as Sites of Transition in a Transcultural World, 1922
The Memoir: Trains as Divine Instrument , 1922 and 1926
The Oral History Memory: Trains as Sites of Youthful Innocence
Conclusion
Notes
Home Away from Home? The Diaspora in Canada and the Zimbabwean Funeral
Historical Background
Receiving the “Bad News”
With them in Spirit: Wakes for Family Members who die in Zimbabwe
Going Home for the Funeral
The Zimbabwean Diaspora and the Shifting Zimbabwean Deathscape
Conclusion
Notes
The Importance of Place: Or, Why We’re Not Post-Prairie
Notes
For the Love of Place―Not Just Any Places: Selected Metis Writings
Little Ukraine on the Prairie: “Baba” in English-language Ukrainian-Canadian Literature
Notes
Embodying Family Values: Imaginary Bodies, the Canadian Medical Association Journal, and Heterosexuality in Western Canada
Notes
Mapping Out the Cultural Presence of Francophones in the West via the Re-visioning of Louis Riel and Gabrielle Roy in NFB Film Adaptations
Un siècle d’hommes/Of Many People
Le vieillard et l’enfant
Louis Riel
This Riel Business
Louis Riel: dernier songe
Conclusion
Filmography
Notes
Badlands and Bones: Towards a Conservation and Social History of Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta
Notes
Prairie Towns: Process and Form
Land
Landscape
Settlement Pattern
Railways and the Grain Elevator System
Townscape
Main Street
The Highway Strip
Road Layout and Neighbourhood Structure
Where to Next?
Notes
Introduction
The Prairie Paradox
“Code Politics” on the Prairies
Codes as Institutions
Determining Tilt and Competitiveness
Constraints on Opponents
Codes and Hegemony
Conclusion
Notes
Index
