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Author : James Blaine Hedges
Publisher : New York : Macmillan
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Canadian Pacific Railway
ISBN : UOM:39015059497373
Author : James B. Hedges
Publisher : Hedges Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443728737
BUILDING THE CANADIAN WEST- THE LAND AND COLONIZATION POLICIES OF THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY by IAMES B. HEDGES. Originally published in 1939. PREFACE: pages which follow are the outgrowth o the author's earlier studies of the influence of the railway upon the settle ment of the Northwestern States of the United States. Those inves tigations aroused his interest in the role played by that same agency to the north of the 4gth parallel, where in the Prairie Provinces approximately one-fifth of the total land area alienated by the Dominion Government was granted to the Canadian Pacific and its subsidiaries. The scale of that company's operations, combined with the completeness of its records, seemed to offer an unusual opportunity for a study of the railway as a colonizer. The term Canadian West is here used to denominate the Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta in which the Dominion subsidy lands of the Canadian Pacific were located. Only incidental attention has been given to British Columbia, where the Company at various times owned subsidy lands obtained from the Province, but where its work of promoting agricultural settlement was much less notable than on the Prairies. The work has been projected against the background of the American frontier and American experience. Parallel and contrast ing developments on the two sides of the imaginary boundary line have been kept constantly in mind and it is believed that events in each area take on a new significance when viewed in the light of those in the other. Grateful acknowledgment is made to various officials of the Cana dian Pacific who facilitated the search for materials, and especially to Mr. Ashley Edwards, whose unflagging interest and indefatigable energy proved equal to every obstacle; to Mr. H. E. Hume, formerly Chairman of the Dominion Lands Board of the Department of the Interior, Ottawa, who placed his vast fund of information at the author's disposal; to officials of the Parliamentary Library, Ottawa, for numerous courtesies; to the Harvard University Press for per mission to use in Chapters II and III material which appeared in the writer's Federal Railway Land Subsidy Policy of Canada ( Cambridge, 1934); to the Social Science Research Council for grants-in aid which made possible the gathering o the material for the volume; to my colleague, Professor Robert H. George, for helpful suggestions with respect to the maps; and to Miss Louise Waitt who has repeatedly typed large portions of the manuscript. JAMES B. HEDGES PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND August, 1939. Contents include: CHAPTER PAGE I. THE BACKGROUND i II. THE ORIGIN OF THE LAND SUBSIDY 14 III. LOCATING THE LAND 32 IV. BEGINNINGS OF LAND POLICY 62 V. ADVERTISING THE WEST 94 VL THE LAND BOOM ON THE PRAIRIE 126 VII. LAUNCHING THE IRRIGATION PROJECT . . . . . . 169 VIII. A POLICY OF COLONIZATION 212 IX. THE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES . . . . 255 X. LATER LAND POLICIES 294 XL PROMOTING BETFER AGRICULTURE 320 XII. THE DEPARTMENT OF COLONIZATION 346 XIII. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION 387 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 411 INDEX 413 MAPS I. CANADIAN PACIFIC LANDS IN WESTERN SASKATCHEWAN AND NORTHERN ALBERTA facing 38 II. CANADIAN PACIFIC LANDS IN MANITOBA AND SOUTHEAST ERN SASKATCHEWAN facing 39 III. CANADIAN PACIFIC LANDS IN SOUTHERN ALBERTA . . . 170 IV. CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY LINES IN THE PRAIRIE PROV INCES . 246 vii.
Author : James Blaine Hedges
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Northwest, Canadian
ISBN : OCLC:270701081
Author : Douglas Hill
Publisher : New York : John Day
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Canada
ISBN : UVA:X001650404
Author : John William Bennett
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803212542
This “anthropological history” tells the story of homesteading and community organization in the Canadian-American West through personal reminiscences and locally written histories. John W. Bennett and Seena B. Kohl interpret those stories through the lenses of history and social science, and they present a view of settlement experience as one phase of the evolving postfrontier society and culture of western North America. Settling the Canadian-American West, 1890–1915 contains a synthesis of Canadian and U.S. settlement experiences giving, to the extent possible, equal space to both sides of the international boundary. The experiences of people in these adjacent territories were virtually identical, with emigrant populations from the same countries and socioeconomic strata. Among other aspects of the homesteading experience, the authors explore the “interactive adaptation” that developed in the West. Networks of mutual aid, reverently remembered by the voices found in these pages, eased the inevitable hardships.
Author : Robert Roach,Canada West Foundation
Publisher : Calgary : Canada West Foundation
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Canada, Western
ISBN : 1894825616
Author : Canada. Dept. of the Interior
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547188582
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Canada West" by Canada. Dept. of the Interior. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Frank Carrel
Publisher : Telegraph Print. Company
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Canada
ISBN : UCAL:$B23331
Author : Omer Lavallée
Publisher : Railfare Books (Fifth House)
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Transportation
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131785011
William Cornelius Van Horne and the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. For armchair railroaders, historians, students - anyone fascinated by Canadian history - Van Horne's Road is a pictorial history of the railroad that forged a nation. Widely hailed as one of the most informative and important histories of the construction and first years of operation of the Canadian Pacific Transcontinental Railway, this vibrant new edition of Van Horne's Road has been reformatted and redesigned for a new generation of readers as a permanent tribute to the people responsible for the building of what has been called Canada's National Highway. Containing more than 450 photographs, illustrations, and historic documents - supplemented by 40 maps and diagrams designed by the author - the book presents a coast-to-coast recreation of what indisputably stands as one of the most important and historic undertakings in the history of this nation.
Author : George Williams Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Canada
ISBN : WISC:89100089523
Author : Heather Devine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 1552388808
Western Canada has figured historically as a focus point for new directions in human thought and action, migrations of the mind and body, and personal journeys of both a substantial and transcendental nature. The essays in Finding Directions West interrogate the meaning of those journeys, their reality, their memory, and their constructed identities within Western Canada itself. The book situates landscapes and peopled places in the West within the larger study of Western Canada and its transborder relationships. It draws scholars from a vareity of disciplines within history, from gender studies, to museum studies, to environmental history, in order to examine afresh Western Canada as a place for finding new directions in the human experience.
Author : Bob Hainstock
Publisher : Calgary : Fifth House Publishers
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Architecture
ISBN : IND:30000063920460
Western Canada is home to an amazing range of barn styles. Settlers from all over the world brought their unique methods of barn-building with them, creating a picturesque legacy of farm architecture. The construction of these buildings is intertwined with the settlement of the west and with the memories of those who live in or visit the area. Bob Hainstock collected photographs and stories of western barns for many years while working as a photographer for the Manitoba Co-operator. His two year feature series on barns drew a tremendous response from readers and barn enthusiasts. This book was the result. Over 150 color and black & white photographs combine with detailed information on the history, construction, and significance of barns in the western landscape to form a book as beautiful as it is engaging.
Author : Graeme Pole
Publisher : Canmore, Alta : Altitude Pub. Canada
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 1554390621
Describes the construction of three great railways of the Canadian West - the Canadian Pacific, the Grand Trunk Pacific, and the Canadian Northern - that helped to stitch the country together physically while threatening to tear it apart politically.
Author : University of Calgary. Department of Geography
Publisher : Calgary, AB : Department of Geography,, University of Calgary
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Canada, Western
ISBN : UOM:39015022209103
Author : Lorry W. Felske,Beverly Jean Rasporich
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Canada (ouest)
ISBN : 9781552381403
Challenging Frontiers: The Canadian West is a multidisciplinary study using critical essays as well as creative writing to explore the conceptions of the "West," both past and present. Considering topics such as ranching, immigration, art and architecture, as well as globalization and the spread of technology, these articles inform the reader of the historical frontier and its mythology, while also challenging and reassessing conventional analysis.
