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June 5 to September 6, 2010
Acres of Dreams is a travelling exhibititon produced by the Canadian Museum of Civilization in collaboration with the Library and Archives Canada. It was developed to mark the centennials of Saskatchewan and Alberta, both of which gained provincial status in 1905 thanks largely to the people and events depicted in this exhibit.
Between 1896 and the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, about two million settlers from Europe and the United States poured into the Canadian Prairies in the greatest single wave of immigration in Canada's history.
Acres of Dreams: Settling the Canadian Prairies revisits the unprecedented marketing campaign led by the federal government that lured immigrants into Western Canada. It also examines the origins, motivations, and experiences of the settlers who forever changed the prairie landscape and played an essential role in building Canada.
The exhibition highlights the dazzling array of posters, pamphlets, slogans, contest, travelling dispays, and lecture tours used in the marketing campaign led by the government, railway companies, steamship lines, and other business interests. The invitation to settle the Canadian Prairies - touted with slogans such as "Free Farms for the Millions," "The Land of Opportunity," and "The Last Best West" - embraced by individuals and families from as far away as Russia
Admission to the exhibit is included in the museum's admission.
The Nanaimo Museum would like to thank local sponsor:
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