Prairie Radical/Reform Writings 1950-1999 Alberta and Saskatchewan radical/reform books, pamphlets and other writings (work in progress) [radical5]
- Tom Monto
- Aug 6
- 7 min read
Updated: Nov 3
sources:
Weinrich Social Protest form the Left in Canada
also info from Aberhart Foundation online:
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x1950
Alberta
Alberta Co-operative Union. Alberta Co-operative and Farm Organizations. pub. in Edmonton. (Weinrich 3459
Association for Civil Liberties. A Brief to the Premier of Alberta. (Weinrich 3460
Nesbitt Save our Soil. (Weinrich 3520)
Rolph. Henry Wise Wood (Weinrich 3525) biography
Saskatchewan
x1951
Alberta
Irvine and Elmer Roper A Personal Message, published by the Battle River-Camrose CCF (Weinrich 3566
Saskatchewan
CCF The CCF in the world today a preliminary draft of a statement of CCF principles (Weinrich 3552
LPP Danger The American oil trust threatens the peace and freedom of Saskatchewan. (Weinrich 3570
Regina Peace Council What about Korea? Regina c.1951 (Weinrich 3582
x1952
Alberta
Charles Martin Hattersley [and Ethel Vera Hattersley]. Aberhart and Alberta the First Phase. Social Credit Co-ordinating Centre 1952 Conference.
At this Conference in Leeds England, Charles Marshall Hattersley & Ethel Vera Hattersley Presented their reports on the Alberta Social Credit experience.
Hattersley was author of Community's Credit and Men, Machines and Money, This Age of Plenty; the People's Purse; Wealth, Want and War
Gran On.... Vera Hattersley (87 pages PDF) This book by the wife of C.M. Hattersley is a good example of what a home study group on social credit would have been like in a narrative form... and from a woman's point of view.
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Aberhart possibly learned from these earlier experiments :
Raymond's scrip experiment
How Guernsey beat the bankers
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A Comparison of the Province Of Alberta 17 years after the start of the Social Credit Goverment.
online at :
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A English Writer on Social Credit writes a view from England giving a realistic angle of the challenges William Aberhart faced in Alberta during the first 18 months of the Social Credit Government.. (1952 Conference) (Aberhart Foundation online:
Coldwell Speech on SC 52 (Weinrich 3607
CCF Provincial Convention program, Edmonton 52 (Weinrich 3614
Nesbitt. The Case Against the Speculative Marketing of Grain. (Weinrich 3646
Roper (Dec. 5, 1952 address at the Alberta CCF annual convention, which was published in leaflet form) (Weinrich 3649)
Saskatchewan
CCF Facts about CCF government in Saskatchewan Weinrich 3610
Douglas, Thomas C. "Tommy Douglas" A big budget for a big job Weinrich 3621
x1953
Alberta
CCF Provincial convention program IOOF hall, Edmonton Dec. 3-5, 1953 (20 pgs.) (Weinrich 3696
McKinlay Honorable Irene Parlby (thesis) (Weinrich 3719
MacPherson Democracy in Alberta. The Theory and practice of a quasi-party system. (258-page book) Weinrich 3720
Roper They Shall Walk and Not Faint, 1953 (six-pg. leaflet). (Weinrich 3730
Saskatchewan
Bright, L.J. Co-operation history and philosophy. Regina: Co-operative Union of Saskatchewan (Weinrich 3674)
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(Peel's Bibliography of the Can. Prairies to 1953 ends here.]
x1954
Alberta
CPC The Issue is Survival: Put Canada First, pub. in Edmonton. 3760
CCF Peace - Freedom - Socialism: Minutes of the 12th National Convention Edmonton, July 26-7, 1954 3772
Engelmann, CCF of Canada thesis 3776
FUA FUA Jubilee Day: The Organized Farmer. publ in Edmonton. 3826
Macklin Have They Turned their Back to the Bible? 3837
Schultz Farm Organizations (thesis) not AB 3851
x1955
Alberta
Saskatchewan
x1956
Alberta
AFL/IFL of Alberta Merger Convention 1956 3857
AFL Seminar in Advanced Labor Education. 3858
Embree Rise of UFA 3893
Roper Text of An Address… 1956 (April 3, 1956 address to a public meeting in protest against the building of the trans-Canada pipeline. His address was distributed in mimeograph form) (Weinrich 3916
Ryga George Song of My Hands and other Poems. pub. in Edmonton 3917
Saskatchewan
Wright, J.F.C. Prairie Progress: Consumer Co-Operation in Saskatchewan. Published by Modern Press, Saskatoon 1956. (listed on ABEBooks)
(Wright see 1940, 1944, 1948)
x1957
Alberta
Bronson The Dangers of NATO (handbill) (Weinrich ); 3989
Labour Church. thesis 4029
CCF Convention proceedings 1959. Johnson gave president's address at the annual CCF Convention, which was published with the proceedings of the convention. (Weinrich 4070
CPC Disarmament and Neutrality brief Edmonton, 60 4138
Swankey Keep Canada out! published in Vancouver by the Cuban Friendship Committee 4386
Saskatchewan
x1958
Alberta
Saskatchewan
x1959
Alberta
Saskatchewan
x1960s
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Roger P. Kirk. Your answers on Social Credit answered Regina: Sask. SC League [1960s?]
1962
Alberta
for the Metro Toronto Young Socred Association
written by L.D. Byrne October 1962
L.D. Byrne was an official in the AB SC movement.
Russell Love
A Look at China A Report on What a party of four Canadians saw in China
The party of four included Russell, his wife Dorothy (nee Kinney), ?, ?.
(see 1965)
Saskatchewan
1963
Alberta
H.E. Nichols Alberta's Fight for Freedom
Saskatchewan
1960s?
Alberta
Nichols, H.E. A Handbook of Social Credit.
online at :
Saskatchewan
1964
Alberta
Saskatchewan
1965
Alberta
Dr. C. H. Geoffrey Oldham, J. Russell Love, and Anna Louise Strong.
Some observations on education, trade and the political process in China, June 1965, 32 pages.
(book says "J Russell Love is a former member of the Alberta Legislature and a former Provincial Treasurer, a life-Iong dairy farmer, for thirty years the managing editor of the Coop-News, now retired and keenly interested in world affairs; on two occasions he has visited the Soviet Union and China" ... Love's article appeared as a brochure and is reprinted with the permission of the author"
"Should Canada Trade With China?
An address presented by J. RUSSELL LOVE of Edmonton, Alberta, to the Annual Businessmen's Weekend and Alumni Reunion of the Banff School of Advanced management, held in Banff, Alberta, March 11 to 13, 1965. The general theme of this year's program was 'OPPORTUNITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES FOR EXPANDING CANADIAN TRADE.'")
(Love see 1962)
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Saskatchewan Wright, J.F.C.
The Louise Lucas Story. This Time Tomorrow. 1965
(Wright see 1940, 1944, 1955)
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Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan:
Louise Lucas (née Nachweih), known as the Mother of the CCF, worked to advance Saskatchewan farmers, especially farm women.
Born in Chicago in 1885, the daughter of German immigrants, Louise Lucas and husband Henry emigrated to Milestone in 1911. They settled at Mazenod in 1920. Considering herself an equal partner on the farm, she became interested in the co-operative ideas of the farm movement and joined the local women’s lodge of the United Farmers of Canada (UFC), Saskatchewan Section. Elected a director in 1930, she became president of the UFC Women’s Section from 1931 to 1933.
In summer 1932, Lucas helped form the Saskatchewan Farmer-Labour Group and participated in the Calgary conference where the CCF was born. In 1933, at its first national convention, she introduced the health services section of the REGINA MANIFESTO.
Lucas was a popular speaker in German as well as English. Despite her duties as a farmer and mother of six, she constantly toured Saskatchewan, spreading her message of co-operation, women’s rights, and social justice.
She served on CCF national and provincial councils, and ran —unsuccessfully— in the federal elections of 1935 (Battlefords constituency) and 1940 (Melville). She continued organizing in Melville until 1943, when she was nominated again; illness then forced her to withdraw.
She died on October 17, 1945.
Louise Lucas was inducted into the Saskatchewan Agricultural Hall of Fame in 1973.
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1966
Alberta
Alberta Socialist Caucus in the NDP. A Socialist Manifesto for the NDP pub. in Edmonton 1966 (Weinrich #4550)
Saskatchewan
1967
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Bay, Christian. Civil Disobedience: Prerequisite to Democracy in Mass Society., 67 pub. in Edmonton by Alberta Young New Democrats
Bloom Why Vietnam? publ by Alberta Young New Democrats. 67
Davidson, Carl University: Mental Production Plant. publ. in Edmonton 67
Den Otter Social Hist of Coal Branch
Russell, Jim 67 wrote Bureaucracy and One-Dimensional Man published in Edmonton by Confrontations (Weinrich );
1968
Alberta
Smith thesis relations between UFA and CCF 68 wrote Agricultural Policy published in Saskatoon (Weinrich )
Conway Carter Commission pub. in Edmonton 68 4745
Conway Karl Marx Ideologue pub. in Edmonton 68 4746
Conway Labour Rights and the NDP pub. in Edmonton 68 474
Finn, Ed Canadian Labour in Politics, pub. in Edmonton 68 Gordon thesis Calgary labour disputes 68
LePoole thesis wage policies 68
Saskatchewan
1969
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Anderson thesis CCF/NDP 69
Cleveland, John Radical Youth publ in Edmonton 69 4825
Cleveland, Student Syndicalism pub. in Edmonton 4826
Confrontations. A Programme for Reform. pub. in Edmonton 69
Conway American Imperialism pub. in Edmonton 69 4834
Conway NDP pub. in Edmonton 69 4835
Conway The New Technology pub. in Edmonton 69 4836
MacMillan thesis trade unions in Dist. 18 69
NDP Alberta Socialist Caucus. A Socialist Manifesto for the NDP pub. in Edmonton ca. 1969
1970
Alberta
Sanguinetti Common misconceptions re: protest movements in the Prairies thesis
Amyot, Grant Strategy for Academic Reform. pub. in Edmonton 70
Lewis thesis NZ vs. BC Labour movements
Morton, Peggy 70 author of They are Burning, They are Burning Effigies; Why, Why, Why, Effigies? published by Hogtown Press (Weinrich ); 5002
Morton, Peggy 70 author of A Woman's Work is Never Done or, The Production , Maintenance and Reproduction of Labour Power (Weinrich ); 5003
Novakowski, Ken The NDP in Alberta: A Critique. pub. in Edmonton 70
Swankey, Ben National Identity (already in Cand. v.1) 70
Wilson thesis Perren Baker
Wilson thesis Perren Baker
Wilson, Leroy John. Perren Baker and the United Farmers of Alberta - Educational Principles and Policies of an Agrarian Government. unpublished MEd thesis, University of Alberta, 1970.
Saskatchewan
List of pamphlets and books on Proportional Representation, 1917-1970, [compiled, ca. 1970]. 2 p.
(a copy in "Franchise" file, Hillsdale location, Regina: Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan, as of October 2025)
(not known why this list was compiled)
1971
1975
1979
Alberta
Mardiros, Anthony. William Irvine: The Life of a Prairie Radical. Toronto: James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers, 1979.
1980
1985
1990
1995
1999
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needs work:
Weinrich 4395
4443
4550
4645
4651
4671
4672
4712
4714
Bronson 4735
4745-7
4758
4761
4777
4814
4825-6
4833
4835-6
4863
4878
4897
4921
4985
5002-3
5009
5035
5044
5055
5068
5146
5221
5226
5227
5238
5241
Popowich 5247
5355
5370
5377
wrote a [of the OAS], published in Vancouver by (Weinrich ); VOW Why VOW? 63
Ross thesis causes of Alberta Labour disputes
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