Contents vii Acknowledgments 1 Introduction The Background to Prairie Settlement 3 The Land Rush to the Prairies 5 The First Dutch Settler 8 Early Dutch Settlers from Montana 10 The Immigrant Group from Nijverdal 15 The Tough Homesteading Years (1903-05) 19 The Years of Growth and Prosperity (1906-09) 23 The Years of Adversity (1910-12) 26 The Years of Renewed Stability (1913-14) 28 The Letters 28 [...] Yet the buffalo - centred way of life of the aboriginal peoples remained relatively undisturbed in the western part of the plains until the latter half of the nineteenth century. [...] To establish Canada as a great nation from sea to sea and thwart American expansionism in the west, the national policy included several major elements imposed on the western interior: settlement of the prairies to provide a hinterland for the manufacturing interests of the east, Indian treaties to procure western lands for the settlers, an immigration policy to attract newcomers, a cross-country [...] In these letters the Dutch settlers neither understand nor give thought to the plight of the native peoples and the injustice done to them by the dispossession of their land. [...] However, the flow of people to the Canadian prairies remained a trickle until the late 18905, for a variety of reasons - the preference of immigrants for the American west until the free land was gone, high tariffs, high CPR freight rates, international economic conditions, the resistance of ranchers, and bad weather.
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- The letters translated from Dutch This book is volume xxv (2004) of the Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies and Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgments 8
- Introduction 10
- The Background to Prairie Settlement 12
- The Land Rush to the Prairies 14
- The First Dutch Settler 17
- Early Dutch Settlers from Montana 19
- The Immigrant Group from Nijverdal 24
- The Tough Homesteading Years (1903–05) 28
- The Years of Growth and Prosperity (1906–09) 32
- The Years of Adversity (1910–12) 35
- The Years of Renewed Stability (1913–14) 37
- The Letters 37
- The Schilstra Letters 38
- The Aldus Letters 40
- The Dijkema Letters 42
- Other Letters to De Grondwet and De Volksvriend 43
- Letters to Church Papers 43
- Personal Letters 44
- The Significance of this Collection 45
- Chapter 1: Preparing to Emigrate 48
- Chapter 2: The Tough Homesteading Years (1903–05) 94
- Chapter 3: The Years of Growth and Prosperity (1906–09) 202
- Chapter 4. The Years of Adversity (1910–12) 310
- Chapter 5: The Years of Renewed Stability (1913–14) 362
- Epilogue 372
- Map of the Dutch Homesteaders 375
- Appendix A: The Dutch Settlers (1903–14) 377
- Appendix B: Homestead Records of the Dutch Settlement 385
- Select Bibliography 389
- Index 392
- A 392
- B 392
- C 393
- D 393
- E 394
- F 394
- G 394
- H 395
- I 395
- J 395
- K 396
- L 396
- M 396
- N 397
- O 397
- P 397
- Q 398
- R 398
- S 398
- T 399
- U 399
- V 399
- W 401
- Y 401
- Z 401
