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Imperial Plots focuses on the gendered aspects of the history of homesteading in Canada, and the ways that this history interacted with ideas about race. In Canada, women were denied the same homesteading rights accorded to men from 1876 to 1930, when the homesteading era, integral to the Canadian settlement of the Prairies, was largely ...
The Canadian Prairies (usually referred to as simply the Prairies in Canada) is a region in Western Canada. It includes the Canadian portion of the Great Plains and the Prairie provinces , namely Alberta , Saskatchewan , and Manitoba . [ 2 ]
Prairie Fairies: A History of Queer Communities and People in Western Canada, 1930-1985 is a 2018 book by Valerie Korinek, professor of history at the University of Saskatchewan. [1] The book documents the history of queer people and of gay and lesbian activism on the Canadian Prairies, focusing mainly on the region's five main urban centres of ...
The Canadian Historical Association awarded the book its 2014 Clio Prize for the best book in Canadian Prairie history. [10] It also won four separate Saskatchewan Book Awards in 2014, including the non-fiction and scholarly writing book awards. [ 11 ]
In 2020, Waiser was honoured with a lifetime achievement award for Prairie history by the Canadian Historical Association (CHA). [7] In 2021, he won the Cheryl and Henry Kloppenburg Award for Literary Excellence for his impact on writing in Saskatchewan, for which the nominator wrote, "I think he is one of Saskatchewan's most important and ...
The Canadian Prairies: A History. University of Toronto Press. ISBN ... Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. 16 (1): 235 ...
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The Prairies could not be settled without railways, so the Dominion government habitually granted large tracts of land to railway companies as an incentive to build lines. Notably, the Canadian Pacific Railway was granted 25,000,000 acres (100,000 km 2) for the construction of its