Exercise Book

Business & Money

Gray, James H.

Economics

Pearson Academic Computing

Exercise Book + Exercise Software

Computers & Technology

Software

Pearson College Div

Booze

Signet

Red Lights on the Prairies

Macmillan Co.

THE WINTER YEARS : The Depression on the Prairies

Macmillan

Winter Years

History

Americas

General Pub Co Ltd

An unconventional social history, Red Lights on the Prairies takes a lively look at the history of prostitution in prairie cities in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. 
This lighthearted yet insightful book tells how the West became overrun with brothels when huge tides of immigrants- mostly unattached young men in the prime of life- swept into the region as settlers. Unlike many histories of this era, it focuses on the prairie cities and towns that were home to the bars, brothels and poolrooms, and describes the efforts of the police, clergy and moral reformers, who were periodically outraged by the rowdy behaviour in the bawdy houses. 
In this ground-breaking book, James Gray draws upon local newspapers of the time, the accounts of several former madams, and the reminiscences of old-timers who had been youths at the turn of the century to produce a vivid and authentic book at a colourful and offbeat aspect of our past. 
Like its companion book, Booze, also by James Gray, Red Lights on the Prairies was a huge success when it was first published, selling more than 100,000 copies throughout North America

Red Lights on the Prairies (Western Canadian Classics)

Fitzhenry-Whiteside

Booze captures the wild days of the Canadian west, when battles raged between the wets and the drys. 
From Winnipeg to the Rockies, whisky kept the prairies in a ferment for fifty years. Taking advantage of the enormous influx of immigrants during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, hotels sprang up in the towns and cities to cater to the prodigious thirst of their patrons. The unrestricted boozing resulted in drunkenness, brawling, petty crime and the disappearance of many a paycheque. It also resulted in a vigourous and ultimately successful campaign for total prohibition, and from approximately 1916 to 1924 the three Prairie provinces were legally dry. 
In his characteristic lively and engaging style, James Gray writes about a little-known aspect of Canadian social history, its aftermath, and the effects it has had on our lives today. 
Unlike many historians, Gray focuses on the everyday lives of ordinary men and women to give an authentic picture of the early years in western Canada. Booze was an instant bestseller when it was originally published in 1972, and has sold more than 100,000 copies in Canada and the U.S.

Booze: When Whiskey Ruled the West (Western Canadian Classics)

Fifth House

The Boy From Winnipeg

Decades after its release in 1975, James Gray's trademark energetic prose pulsates with the essence of this flamboyant era when idealism ran rampant across the prairies. Gray captures the: Political frustrations of the farmers and the resulting turbulent Progressive movement and the resulting Wheat Pools, Radical idealism of the One Big Union, born after the Winnipeg General Strike in 1919, Gambling fever that struck not only Western Canadians, but all North Americans, spawned by those who put their paychecks in football pools, horse races, and the spectacular ups and downs of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange, Social and religious movements such as the birth of the United Church and the Ku Klux Klan. 
 James Gray has written of an exciting and flamboyant era, a time never to be forgotten.

The Roar of the Twenties (Western Canadian Classics)

Fifth House Publishers

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