Canada's History

The “Last Best West” was a program developed through the Immigration Branch of the Canadian Department of the Interior from 1896 until the First World War, which produced brochures, pamphlets, and atlases that were distributed in the United States and Great Britain to encourage farmers to settle in western Canada. Beverley Tallon, editorial assistant at Canada’s History talks to Dr. Laura Detre, an instructor of history at Washington & Jefferson University, Washington, Pennsylvania, about the subject.