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R. Douglas Francis is a professor of history at the University of Calgary. He has published extensively in the areas of Canadian and western Canadian intellectual and cultural history. George Melnyk is professor emeritus of Communication, Media, and Film at the University of Calgary. He is the author and editor of over two dozen books in Canadian Studies, including the two-volume The Literary History of Alberta (1998-99). He is also co-editor with Tamara Palmer Seiler of The Wild Rose Anthology of Alberta Prose (2003) and co-editor with Donna Coates of Wild Words: Essays on Alberta Literature (2009). His most recent title is First Person Plural (2015), a collection of his essays on the self and its image. He is currently preparing the second volume in the trilogy. Chris Kitzan manages content creation for Library and Archives Canada's Web Content and Services Division. Formerly a curator at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, Chris has more than fifteen years experience authoring historical productions, exhibitions, and publications for both academic and popular audiences. Sarah Carter teaches history at the Univerisity of Alberta. R. Douglas Francis is a professor of history at the University of Calgary. He has published extensively in the areas of Canadian and western Canadian intellectual and cultural history.
The Promise of the West as Settlement Frontier. Adventurers in the Promised Land: British Writers in the Canadian North West, 1841-1913. Canada's Rocky Mountain Parks: Rationality, Romanticism, & a Modern Canada. Clifford Sifton's Vision of the Prairie. "We Must Farm to Enable Us to Live": The Plains Cree & Agriculture to 1900. Utopian Ideals & Community Settlements in Western Canada, 1880-1914. "Land I Can Own": Settling in the Promised Land. The City Yes, The City No: Perfection by Design in the Western City. Land of the Second Chance: Nellie McClung's Vision of the Prairie West as Promised Land. The Kingdom of God on the Prairies: J.S. Woodsworth's Vision of the Prairie West as Promised Land. "A Far Green Country Unto a Swift Sunrise": The Utopianism of the Alberta Farm Movement, 1909-1923. "No Place for a Woman": Engendering Western Canadian Settlement. Preaching Purity in the Promised Land: Bishop Lloyd & the Immigration Debate. Policing the Promised Land: The RCMP & Negative Nation-Building in Alberta & Saskatchewan in the Interwar Period. Uncertain Promise: The Prairie Farmer & the Post-War Era. The Artist's Eye: Modernist & Postmodern Visualizations of the Prairie West. The Dream Still Lives: Promised Land Narratives during the Saskatchewan Golden Jubilee. From Farm to Community: Co-operatives in Alberta & Saskatchewan, 1905-2005.