Developing the West

Table of Contents

• Contents 8
• List of Contributors 10
• Acknowledgements 12
• Introduction 14
• Lewis Herbert Thomas: A Biographical Sketch 24
• The Hudson's Bay Company's Prairie Transportation Problem, 1870–85 38
• The "Private Adventurers" of Rupert's Land 62
• New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and the North-West Rebellion, 1885 84
• Stony Indian Medicine 114
• "What if Mama is an Indian?": The Cultural Ambivalence of the Alexander Ross Family 136
• The Telegraph and Community Formation in the North-West Territories 150
• Population Growth in Western Canada, 1901–71 168
• Urban Land Speculation in the Development of Strathcona (South Edmonton), 1891–1912 192
• The Location of Experimental Farms and Illustration Stations: An Agricultural or Political Consideration? 214
• J.J. Maloney: How the West was saved from Rome, Quebec, and the Liberals 232
• C.A. Dunning, 1916–30: The Rise and Fall of a Western Agrarian Liberal 256
• "Misfits," "Malingerers," and "Malcontents": The British Harvester Movement of 1928 284
• Bankers and Farmers in Western Canada, 1900–1939 316
• Appendix: Lewis H. Thomas Bibliography 350