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    612-822-4611

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The Prairie West as Promised Land

The Prairie West as Promised Land

Kitzan, Chris
Francis, R. Douglas

Paperback

Canadian HistoryGeneral SociologyHistoriography

ISBN10: 1552382303
ISBN13: 9781552382301
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Published: Aug 21 2007
Pages: 486
Weight: 1.61
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.11 Depth: 8.91
Language: English

So the emblem of the West / Our bright Maple Leaf is bless'd / To its children of the goodly open hand; / All the nations of the earth / Are now learning of its worth / And are flocking to this wealthy, promised land. - The Sugar Maple Tree Song, 1906

In 1906, the Sugar Maple Tree Song was just one example of the rhapsodic pieces that touted the Prairie West as the promised land. In the formative years of agricultural settlement from the late nineteenth century to the First World War, the Canadian government, along with the railways and other Prairie boosters, further developed and propagated this image within the widely distributed promotional literature that was used to attract millions of immigrants to the Canadian West from all corners of the world.

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