Agrarian Revolt in W. CanadaU of Minnesota Press |
Contents
| 1 | |
II THE FARMERS BURDEN | 21 |
III ORGANIZE O ORGANIZE | 32 |
IV THE PREWAR CRUSADE FOR DEMOCRACY | 54 |
V THE NONPARTISAN LEAGUE INVADES CANADA | 77 |
Vl THE NONPARTISAN LEAGUE IN PRAIRIE POLITICS | 91 |
VII THE WAR YEARS | 105 |
VIII REVOLT ON THE PRAIRIES | 128 |
IX THE FARMERS IN POLITICS | 152 |
X THE PROGRESSIVE HERITAGE | 179 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 193 |
INDEX | 199 |
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Page 26 - Changes in the Rates of Charge for Railway and Other Transportation Services, Prepared under the Direction of John Hyde, Statistician, by H. T.
Page x - This chapter was read at the meeting of the Agricultural History Society with the American Historical Association in New York City on December 30, 1946, and was then published in Agricultural History, 21:65-74 (April 1947).
Page 44 - The Dominion has greatly prospered. It has an active, aggressive, and intelligent people. They are coming to the parting of the ways. They must soon decide whether they are to regard themselves as isolated permanently from our markets by a perpetual wall or whether we are to be commercial friends.
Page 5 - With the large naval program authorized in 1916, and the entrance of the United States into World War I in 1917...
Page 63 - It corrupts our political system, our political system corrupts and degrades the public administration, and the corroding influence extends to the social system and business life until the disease permeates the whole community.
Page 15 - Financial Progress of Settlers with Special Reference to the Vulcan-Lomond Area," 220, unpublished MA thesis, University of Alberta.
Page 40 - The Economic and Political Background of the Nonpartisan League,