In recent years, historians such as Lyle Dick and Paul Voisey have begun to explore western Canadian settlement and land tenure patterns. Their studies demonstrate that an analysis of land ownership and utilisation is an important first step towards a historical understanding of western Canadian agricultural society. This paper examines settlement and land tenure in one township in the Peace River country. Special problems of settlement in the Peace country, including the homestead system, timing, the Soldier Settlement Board, marginal lands, and distance from market, led to the early maturation of the community. Combined with the post First World War depression, these problems caused an early rationalization of the population in the township leading to long term stability. This study provides another example of the varied agricultural experience in the west.
 

In 1771 a bill was brought before the British parliament ot limit the tonnage of East India Company ships. The Admiralty claimed that construction of the large trading vessels consumed vital and dwindling supplies of English oak required by the Royal Navy. After convening for a year, the Committee organized to investigate the "timber" bill reported that the Comapny was not solely reponsible for the shortage of timber. However, by 1772 the Company was in serious financial difficulty. In the face of mounting pressure for government control of the Company, the timber bill became another vehicle in the debate of whether the Crown or the Conpany should control India. Although passed, the rimber bill had less to do with the merits of preserving vital oak for the Royal Navy than it did with efforts to limit the powers of the East India Company.
 

Many historians and sociologists have noted that the classroom often becomes the battleground for conflicting social values. The 1978 Regina vs Wiebe trial in Alberta was a clear example of stresses caused by changing values in a pluralistic society. Regina vs Wiebe reveals a struggle between three contrasting worldviews: Mennonite traditionalism, Mennonite modernism, and state secular humanism. The result forced provincial approval of independent schools on the grounds of religious freedom. This study outlines the legal, religious, and philosophical themes of the trial and uncovers underlying denomintional tensions.
 

The attempted repeal of the Quebec Act on 17 and 18 may 1775 is a subject which has, as of yet, not attracted Canadian or British Imperial historains working on eighteenth century Quebec. An examination of the repeal attempt made by Lord Camden and Sir George Savile in both Houses of Parliament in 1775 reveals that the American Crisis led the Opposition to pursue a policy of conciliation with the American colonies. The attempted repeal of the Quebec Act was one way the Opposition hoped to head off the threat of imminent war. This study contributes to a fuller picture of the Imperial context in which decisions were made with regards to Canada during the rising American crisis.
 

As Minister of the Interior from 1905 to 1911, Frank Oliver held a fundamentally different philosophy of immigration to that of his predecessor. While previous immigration legislation had been open door, and focused on economic criteria, Oliver believed in the effectiveness of a closed door policy based  primarilay on cultural criteria. The Immigration Act of 1906, resting on the twin pillars of selection and restriction, was designed to establish and implement that criteria. The immigration bill was well received by the public, engendered minimal legislative debate, and was passed substantially as it had first been introduced. Oliver had responded to what Canadians perceived was a national need.
 

Sir Lewis Namier is well knowen for the method of historical research that he developed. His emphasis on intense primary source research, attention to political structures, and concentration on the motivation of individual historical actors have been incorporated, in varying degrees, into the methodology of most historians. Yet, an examination of his essays on Eastern Europe suggests differences and similarities bewteen Namier's historical work on Eastern Europe and his work in other areas. An explanation of these differences suggests that the historian who atomized eighteenth-century British history also had the ability to systhesize those "atoms" into a broad historical outline. This important and often overlooked aspect of this most enigmatic of historians is brought out clearly in his work on Eastern Europe.
 

Oblate missionaries played a large role in educating and "civilizing" natives in the Canadian Northwest in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The missionaries' goals were to gain converts and to preparre the Indians to cope with the new, white-dominated society. Under the aegis of a Dominion government that sought an inexpensive means of assimilating the Indians, the missionaries built shools where native children could be inculcated with "Canadian" values and mores.  This essay looks at missionary education at the Hobbema, Alberta  residential school from 1891 to 1914. The writer argues that, for a variety of reasons, Indians often resisted the educational efforts of the missionaries and the health conditions at the schools. However, some Indians believed education could help them adjust to the new society.