Alvin Finkel has taught Canadian history atAthabasca University since 1978. Best known for his co-authorship withMargaret Conrad of the two-volume History of the Canadian Peoples, hisother publications include The Social Credit Phenomenon in Albertaand Our Lives: Canada After 1945 and Social Policy andPractice in Canada: A History. Sarah Carter isProfessor and Henry Marshall Tory Chair in both the Department ofHistory and Classics and the Faculty of Native Studies at theUniversity of Alberta. She is the author of The Importance of BeingMonogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada to 1915 andMontana Women Homesteaders: A Field of One's Own. PeterFortna is a historical and traditional land use consultant inthe Fort McMurray area. He was the co-organizer of "The West andBeyond: Historians Past, Present and Future" conference, on whichThe West and Beyond is based.Contibutors: Dominique Clement, Bruce Dawson, AmberDean, Lyle Dick, Matt Dyce, Gerald Friesen, Elizabeth Jameson, EsylltJones, Susan Joudrey, Jennifer Kelly Dan Cui, Valerie Korinek, KathrynMcKay, James Opp, Robyn Read, Jeffrey Taylor, Robert Wardhaugh, LaurenWheeler, Winona Wheeler, John Willis

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart One. Frameworks for Western CanadianHistory1. Critical History in Western Canada1900 – 2000 / Gerald Friesen2. Vernacular Currents in Western CanadianHistoriography: The Passion and Prose of Katherine Hughes, F.G. Roe,and Roy Ito / Lyle Dick3. Cree Intellectual Traditions in History /Winona WheelerPart Two. The Aboriginal West4. Visualizing Space, Race, and History inthe North: Photographic Narratives of the Athabasca-Mackenzie RiverBasin / Matt Dyce and James Opp5. The Kaleidoscope of Madness: Perceptions ofInsanity in British Columbia Aboriginal Populations, 1872 – 1950 /Kathryn McKay6. Space, Temporality, History: EncounteringHauntings in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside / AmberDean7. The Expectations of a Queen: Identity and RacePolitics in the Calgary Stampede / Susan L. JoudreyPart Three. The Workers' West8. Capitalist Development, Forms of Labour, andClass Formation in Prairie Canada / Jeffery Taylor9. Two Wests, One-and-a-Half Paradigms, and,Perhaps, Beyond / Elizabeth Jameson10. Disease as Embodied Praxis: Epidemics, Public Health, andWorking-Class Resistance in Winnipeg, 1906 – 19 / Esyllt W.Jones11. Winnipeg's Moment: The Winnipeg Postal Strike of 1919 /John WillisPart Four. Viewing the West from the Margins12. "Our Negro Citizens": An Example of EverydayCitizenship Practices / Dan Cui and Jennifer R. Kelly13. A Queer-Eye View of the Prairies: Reorienting Western CanadianHistories / Valerie J. Korinek14. Human Rights Law and Sexual Discrimination in British Columbia,1953 – 84 / Dominique ClémentPart Five. Cultural Portrayals of the West15. W.L. Morton, Margaret Laurence, and the Writing of Manitoba /Robert Wardhaugh16. The Banff Photographic Exchange: Albums, Youth, Skiing, andMemory Making in the 1920s / Lauren Wheeler17. Eric Harvie: Without and Within Robert Kroetsch's Alibi /Robyn Read18. "It's a Landmark in the Community": TheConservation of Historic Places in Saskatchewan, 1911 – 2009 /Bruce Dawson