| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.2

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CCF Colonialism in Northern Saskatchewan: Battling Parish Priests, Bootleggers, and Fur Sharks. By David M. Quiring. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2004. xx + 356 pp. Map, notes, bibliography, index. $85.300, cloth; $29.95, paper.)

The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) has a distinctive and distinguished history in Canada, particularly in the province of Saskatchewan, where, in 1944, it formed the first socialist government in North America. Anatomized by Seymour Martin Lipset in his classic study Agrarian Socialism (Berkeley, 1950), the CCF introduced state medicine and pioneered the use of policy planning agencies. Although it has never formed a government nationally, in Saskatchewan it and its successor, the New Democratic Party, have governed for forty-four of the last sixty years. The explanation for this success lies partly in its "humanity first" rhetoric and partly in the calibre of its leaders, beginning with T. C. Douglas, a Baptist minister and mesmeric orator. Around both man and movement an aura of righteousness has settled.

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