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Western Visions, Western Futures: Perspectives on the West in Canada, 2nd ed.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2005

David Smith
Affiliation:
University of Saskatchewan

Extract

Western Visions, Western Futures: Perspectives on the West in Canada, 2nd ed., Roger Gibbins and Loleen Berdahl, Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2003, pp. viii, 226

Which is real—the past, or interpretations of the past? When it comes to discussing western Canada's place in the national scheme of things, history hangs heavy; which may be why even works of political science intone Creighton and Careless, Lower and W.L. Morton. The authors of the book under review, Roger Gibbins, CEO and president of the Canada West Foundation and Loleen Berdahl, its Director of Research, cite at one point Quebec's motto je me souviens, but their own study, despite its title, looks back as much as it does ahead.

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© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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