The Promised Land by Berton, Pierre -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Other Books by This Author Contents Map Prologue: Professor Oleskow’s Vision Chapter One - The Young Napoleon of the West

1. The new broom 2. The hard sell 3. A political animal 4. The spoils system 5. The Free Press changes hands 6. Master and servant

Chapter Two - The Sheepskin People

1. The long voyage 2. “Dirty, ignorant Slavs” 3. The Galician vote 4. The melting-pot syndrome

Chapter Three - The Spirit Wrestlers

1. The Universal Brotherhood 2. “Greetings, Doukhobors!” 3. The “peculiar people” 4. The Sons of God 5. Peter the Lordly

Chapter Four - Isaac Barr’s Lambs

1. Barr’s dream 2. Quite a hustler 3. Stormy passage 4. Indignation meetings 5. Trekking to Britannia

Chapter Five - The Problem of the English

1. No Englishmen need apply 2. Remittance men 3. Lloydminster 4. The Odyssey of Ella Sykes 5. Don’t come back, Dad

Chapter Six - The American Invasion

1. Will White thinks big 2. Catching the fever 3. Keeping out the Blacks 4. Loosening Imperial ties

Chapter Seven - The Passing of the Old Order

1. Sifton’s mysterious departure 2. The new era 3. The Indian dilemma 4. The Imperial Force

Chapter Eight - The Sifton Scandals

1. The Minister’s reputation 2. The mysterious company 3. A favoured relative 4. Big Jim’s political clout 5. Cheating the Indians 6. Everybody’s doing it

Chapter Nine - The Spirit of the West

1. West versus East 2. The common experience 3. The Western ethic 4. Bob Edwards and the Eye Opener 5. Radicalism and populism 6. The un-Western Westerner

Chapter Ten - The Dark Side of Boosterism

1. The image makers 2. Slums and brothels 3. The Social Gospel 4. Our Nellie

Chapter Eleven - Boom and Bust

1. Railway madness 2. The land frenzy 3. Get your feet wet 4. The lottery 5. Shattered dreams

Epilogue: On the Winnipeg Platform Author’s Note Select Bibliography Notes