Aberhart and the Alberta Insurrection, 1935-1940, 1998, edited by Ted byfield, hardcover, published by United Western Communications, 305 pages.

This is Volume Seven of  a Journalistic History of the Province of Alberta in the 20^th Century.    This volume covers the period from 1935 to 1940,  from the end of the Great Depression  to the first year of World War II.

The contents include -----

Section One THE REPUBLIC OF ALBERTA

I After eighteen months with no dividend, the Socred caucus rises in revolt

            - Was Major Douglas a genius or was he a crackpot?

            - Social Credit sweeps Alberta's federal seats

II Alberta's zany venture into scrip creates the "Funny Money" province

            - Social Credit breaks out all over the country

III For 32 months of chaos Alberta fights and loses a battle with Ottawa

            - The name-calling newspaper that shocked the nation

            - Aberhart's ill-starred invasion of Saskatchewan

            - The shootout at High River-Okotoks

REAL & IMAGINED

Section Two MAKING DO: LIFE GOES ON AS POVERTY SUBSIDES

I The worst of times seemed the best for the children of the Depression

            - A train of many colours

            - "The greatest cowtown" spawns a yodelling sensation

II Desperadoes and safecrackers thrive in an era of short money

            - Hunting and killing the Mad Trapper

            - The sun sets on the boys in blue

            - Death had a dapper little helper

III To the artist the challenge lay in the grandeur that is Alberta

            - It began with a drink one cold day in Lethbridge

REAL & IMAGINED

Section Three THE SECOND CITIES: PROMISE POSTPONED

I Medicine Hat - bowed but never quite broken

            - The Cypress Hills, an Edenic garden

            - 1939 road map of Alberta

II Trouble in "Sin City," as Lethbridge battles bootleggers, yeggs and "soiled doves"

            - Just put your lips together and blow

            - The eternal dilemma of the Canadian hinterland

REAL & IMAGINED

Section Four THE GRADUAL TURNAROUND

I Into the near-desert of the South rode scientists with good ideas

            - Saving Flanagan's field

            - Meanwhile on the feathered and petalled front

II In the dreariest of all economies, Bob Brown's well gushed hope

            - Baptism by fire and brimstone

            - A voice of reason amid the tumult

            - EI Dorado in the Porcupine Hills

III Edmonton daredevils lead the way as the bush fliers turn into businessmen

            - A broadcast that introduced the world to Edmonton

REAL & IMAGINED

Section Five THE WORLD BLOWS UP

I In a poor and angry world the hostilities resume

            - The spectacular career of Two-Gun Cohen

            - The visit that prepares Canada for another war

REAL & IMAGINED

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