The CCF/NDP rose like a phoenix out of the ashes of the Great Depression, and the chapter that follows Smith's examines the extent to which the lost decade of the 1930s is the major dividing line in the his- tory of Saskatchewan. [...] The word relative is key.7 Since the discovery of the Leduc oil fields in 1947, and the OPEC-induced boom of the 1970s, Saskatchewan residents have felt increasingly left behind by the blue- eyed sheiks of Alberta, despite the fact that Saskatchewan has, in objec- tive terms, fared well relative to most other provinces in the federation on almost any index of prosperity with the exception of popul [...] It was therefore the special role of the English-only public school to serve as the training ground for Canadian norms, val- ues, and institutions, to break the children's attachment to their home cultures and traditions, and offer them a better, brighter future as Canadian citizens loyal to the British flag and the British Empire.16 In his 1918 book on the subject, The Education of the New Canadi [...] But the change in government did nothing to resolve the larger issue that the province faced at the end of the 1920s— namely, the place of non-British immigrants. [...] Although First Nations remained the responsibility of the federal gov- ernment (section 91 [24] of the 1867 British North America Act), the creation of Saskatchewan in 1905 meant that they had to contend, albeit indirectly, with another level of government which put the needs and interests of the province ahead of the Aboriginal population.
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references: p. 199-104
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- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 971.24/03
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
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- Includes index Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- n-cn-sn
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- 9781459335943 9780889771796
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- F1072
- LCCN Item number
- H43 2005eb
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- CaBNVSL
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- 1 electronic text (110 p.)
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- Canada
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgments 7
- Chapter 1: Why the Heavy Hand of History? 8
- Chapter 2: Our Shared Destiny? 14
- Chapter 3: Path Dependency and Saskatchewan Politics 38
- Chapter 4: The Great Divide 58
- Chapter 5: The Saskatchewan Myth 74
- Contributors 93
- Endnotes 94
- Bibliography 106
- Index 112
- A 112
- B 112
- C 112
- D 113
- E 113
- F 113
- G 114
- H 114
- I 114
- J 114
- K 114
- L 114
- M 115
- N 115
- O 115
- P 115
- R 116
- S 116
- T 117
- U 117
- V 117
- W 117
