Creating a Modern Countryside

by Murton, James; Wynn, Graeme

• ISBN13: 9780774813389
• ISBN10: 0774813385
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of British Columbia Pr

Summary

In the early 1900s, British Columbia embarked on a brief but intense effort to manufacture a modern countryside. The government wished to reward veterans of the Great War with new lives: soldiers and other settlers would benefit from living in a rural community, considered a more healthy and moral alternative to urban life. But the fundamental reason for the land resettlement project was the rise of progressive or "new liberal" thinking, as reformers advocated an expanded role for the state in guaranteeing the prosperity and economic security of its citizens.

Author Biography

James Murton is an assistant professor of history at Nipissing University in North Bay, Ontario

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. xi
Foreword: Soldiers' Fields	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xxvii
A Note on Terminology and Units of Measure	p. xxix
Introduction	p. 1
A Modern Countryside
Liberalism and the Land	p. 21
Soliders, Science, and an Alternative Modernity	p. 47
Where Apples Grow Best
Stump Farms: Soldier Settlement at Merville	p. 73
Creating Order at Sumas	p. 109
Achieving the Modern Countryside	p. 136
Back to Work
Pattullo's New Deal	p. 167
Conclusion	p. 191
Appendix	p. 198
Notes	p. 203
Bibliography	p. 245
Index	p. 258
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