books.google.ca - For many years following Confederation, Canada remained an absurd country: with its vast West still free of agricultural settlers, John A. Macdonald's vision of a great nation bound together by a transcontinental railway and a nationalist economic policy remained an unfulfilled dream.On the other side...http://books.google.ca/books/about/Peasants_in_the_Promised_Land.html?id=XfKkhhHa1tgC&utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePeasants in the Promised Land
