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Liberalism, Surveillance, and Resistance Indigenous Communities in Western C…
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SMITH,Keith D.

Canada is regularly presented as a country where liberalism has ensured freedom and equality for all. Yet with the expansion of settlers into the First Nations territories that became southern Alberta and BC, liberalism proved to be an exclusionary rather than inclusionary force. Between 1877 and 1927, government officials, police officers, church representatives, ordinary settlers, and many ot…

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9781897425398.01
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The West Unbound: Social and Cultural Studies
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334 pages
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The Wages of Relief Cities and the Unemployed in Prairie Canada, 1929–39
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STRIKWERDA,Eric

Setting municipal relief administrations of the 1930s within a wider literature on welfare and urban poor relief, Strikwerda highlights the legacy on which relief policymakers relied in determining policy directions, as well as the experiences of the individuals and families who depended on relief for their survival. Focusing on three prairie cities—Edmonton, Saskatoon, and Winnipeg—Strikwe…

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978-1-927356-05-0
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Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH
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333 pages
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Liberalism, Surveillance, and Resistance Indigenous Communities in Western C…
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SMITH,Keith D.

Canada is regularly presented as a country where liberalism has ensured freedom and equality for all. Yet with the expansion of settlers into the First Nations territories that became southern Alberta and BC, liberalism proved to be an exclusionary rather than inclusionary force. Between 1877 and 1927, government officials, police officers, church representatives, ordinary settlers, and many ot…

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978-1-897425-39-8
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The West Unbound: Social and Cultural Studies
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334 pages
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Expansive Discourses Urban Sprawl in Calgary, 1945-1978
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FORAN,Max

A groundbreaking study of urban sprawl in Calgary after the Second World War. The interactions of land developers and the local government influenced how the pattern grew: developers met market demands and optimized profits by building houses as efficiently as possible, while the City had to consider wider planning constraints and infrastructure costs. Foran examines the complexity of their int…

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978-1-897425-13-8
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The West Unbound: Social and Cultural Studies
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6 x 9, 284 pages
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Development Derailed Calgary and the CPR , 1962–64
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FORAN,Max

What, in economic terms, was perceived to be a win-win situation for both parties fell prey to a conflict between corporate rigidity and an unorganized, ill-informed, and over-enthusiastic civic administration and city council. Drawing on the private records of Rod Sykes, the CPR’s onsite negotiator and later Calgary’s mayor, Foran unravels the fascinating story of how politics ultimately u…

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978-1-927536-08-1
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272 pages