Introduction
R. Douglas Francis and Chris Katzen
Section I: Visions of the Promised Land
The Promise of the West as a Settlement Frontier
Doug Owram
Adventures in the Promised Land: British Writers in the Canadian North West, 1941-1913
Laurence Ktizan
Canada's Rocky Mountain Parks: Rationality, Romanticism, and a Modern Canada
Matthew Wrangler
Clifford Sifton's Vision of the Prairie West
David Hall
Section II: Settling the Promised Land
"We Must Fam to Enable Us to Live:"The Plains Cree and Agriculture to 1900
Sarah Carter
Utopian Ideals and Community Settlements in Western Canada, 1880-1914
Andrew W. Rasporich
"Land I Can Own:" Settling in the Promised Land
Bill Waiser
Section III: Envisioning the Prairie West as a Perfect Society
The City Yes, The City No: Perfection by Design
Anthony W. Rasporich
Land of the Second Chance: Nellie McClung's Vision of the Prairie West of Promised Land
Randi Warne
The Kingdom of God on the Prairies: J.S. Woodsworth's Vision of the Prairie West as Promised Land
R. Douglas Francis
"A Far Green Country Unto a Swift Sunrise:" The Utopianism of the Alberta Farm Movement, 1909-1923
Bradford J. Rennie
Section IV: A Promised Land for the "Chosen People"
"No Place for a Woman:" Engendering Western Canadian Settlement
Catherine A. Cavanaugh
Preaching Purity in the Promised Land: Bishop Lloyd and the Immigration Debate
Chris Katzen
Policing the Promised Land: The RCMP and Negative Nation-Building in Alberta and Saskatchewan in the Interwar Period
Steve Hewitt
Section V: Readjusting the Vision of the Promised Land in the Modern Era
Uncertain Promise: The Prairie Farmer and the Post-War Era
Doug Owram
The Artist's Eye: Modernist and Postmodernist Visualizations of the Prairie West
Michael Fedyk
From Farm to Community: Co-Operatives in Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1905-2005
Brett Fairbairn Notes on Contributors
Index