Creating a Modern Countryside : Liberalism and Land Resettlement in British Columbia.

"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 m...

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Main Author: Murton, James
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Vancouver : UBC Press, 2014.
Series:Nature, history, society.
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