Illustrations
Preface
1. Cleaning Up the Klondike (1900-1901)
2. Settling Old Scores: Politics in Western Canada (1901-1902)
3. From "Dismal Failure" to "Magnificent
Success": Policies of Development (1901-1904)
4. The Politics of Progress (1901-1904)
5. Defending Canada's Honour: The Alaska Boundary Tribunal
(1903)
6. Concessions in the Klondike (1901-1905)
7. The Liberal Machine and the General Election of 1904
8. Resignation (1905)
9. Private Member (1905-1911)
10. Reciprocity (1911)
11. The Commission of Conservation (1909-1921)
12. Through the Great War (1911-1918)
13. The Closing Decade (1919-1929)
Epilogue
Appendix 1: The Sifton Lineage
Appendix 2: School Clauses of 1905
Note on Sources
Bibliography
Abbreviations
Notes
Index