Review of False Expectations: Politics and the Pursuit ofthe Saskatchewan Myth

• Main Author: Clercy, Cristine de
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2007
• Subjects: Other International and Area Studies; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/greatplainsresearch/901; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/greatplainsresearch/article/1900/viewcontent/Eisler_GPR_2007_False.pdf

For much of its history Saskatchewan has been a net exporter of people, mainly to adjacent Great Plains locales and across North America. Many expatriates retain psychological ties to this prairie province that stretch beyond familial or historical connections, and this deep sense of identity is puzzling to students of prairie polities. Unlike other established societies with high out-migration levels such as Newfoundland, Saskatchewan was settled fairly recently, and many families lived there for one or two generations at most before leaving. How is it that in a relatively brief period many new immigrants developed such a deep and abiding association with this province?