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... Magnan University of Regina So Far And Yet So Close: Frontier Cattle Ranching in Western Prairie Canada and the Northern Territory of Australia. By Warren M. Elofson. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2015. 330 pp., $34.95, paperback, ISBN 978-1-55238-798-6. This is an interesting and useful...

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...Donald G. Wetherell Country Post: Rural Postal Service in Canada, 1880-1945 . Chantal Amyot and John Willis . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 140 / Agricultural History buried in the floor of a dairy cooler, which the archaeologists interpreted as the family...

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...Richard W. Judd © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 Backwoods Consumers & Homespun Capitalists: The Rise of a Market Culture in Eastern Canada . By Béatrice Craig . Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 2009 . 349 pp., $75.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8020-9317-2...

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...Royden Loewen Promoters, Planters, and Pioneers: The Course and Context of Belgian Settlement in Western Canada . By Cornelius J. Jaenen . Calgary : University of Calgary Press , 2011 . 354 pp., $41.95 , paperback, 978-1-55238-258-5 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012...

... mechanism to address what many saw as vitamin deficiencies, Canada took a different route. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 NOTES 1. Frederick Tisdall to Gordon C. Leitch, Apr. 23, 1941, folder “Dom. Cerealist—Vitamins in Bread, Wheat, and Flour, Apr. 1941,” Vol. 4035, RG 17, Library...

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...Thomas D. Finger When Wheat Was King: The Rise and Fall of the Canada-UK Wheat Trade . By André Magnan . Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press , 2016 . 216 pp., $32.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-7748-3114-7 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 578 Agricultural...

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...Catharine A. Wilson How Agriculture Made Canada: Farming in the Nineteenth Century . By Peter A. Russell . Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press , 2012 . 312 pp., $34.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-7735-4065-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2014 2014 2014 Book Reviews...

...Shannon Stunden Bower Canada’s Rural Majority: Households, Environments, and Economies, 1870–1940 . By R. W. Sandwell . Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 2016 . 272 pp., $29.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-80208616-7 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Book Reviews...