| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.3

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Book Review

The Methodist Church on the Prairies, 1896–1914. By George Emery. (Montreal, Ithaca: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. xxi + 259 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00.)

The Methodist Church on the Prairies, 1896–1914 is a consideration of Canadian social and religious history, focusing on Methodist efforts to keep up with a settlement boom on the western prairies of Canada that began around 1896 and virtually halted, at least temporarily, with the onset of World War I in 1914. The Methodist Church merged with several other denominations to become the United Church of Canada in 1925, shortly after the period of this study, but the story considered here is specifically Methodist. Emery's major concern is to contest the characterization of Methodism by Neil Semple (The Lord's Dominion: The History of Canadian Methodism, Montreal, 1996) as "a middle-class institution whose leaders imposed class values on a passive membership" (p. xvii). Instead, Emery argues that Methodists had "a complex social profile and contested values, not a cohesive middle class tradition" (p. xvii).

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