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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Peggy & Balmer
    sub title: two journalists at the edge of history
  title info:
    title: Peggy and Balmer
  name:
    name part: Radford, Tom
    name part: 1946-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Thorsell, William
    role:
      role term: writer of foreword.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: abc
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 345 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: "Alberta is a puzzle, born in hope and anger," William Thorsell writes in the introduction to this stunning new book by filmmaker and writer Tom Radford. Following the lives of his grandparents Peggy and Balmer Watt, Radford tells the story of two journalists who arrive in Edmonton the first day of the province's life, September 1, 1905, as Prime Minister Wilfred Laurier announces Alberta as the great hope for "Canada's Century" that lies ahead. But Albertans already have a contrary vision in mind, a government strong enough to challenge the constitution that binds them. Peggy and Balmer find themselves in the midst of a conflagration that will last a century. Their marriage falls apart, their newspapers go bankrupt and Alberta veers towards the extremist politics of today. Balmer defends the freedom of the press and helps win the first Pulitzer awarded outside the United States. Peggy chronicles her own story, "A Woman in the West." Seen from our time, the lives of these two remarkable journalists introduce the angels and devils of Alberta history, the siren call of a Last Best West that once again jeopardizes Canada's future.
  note: Tom Radford ; with a foreword by William Thorsell.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-cn-ab
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Watt, Arthur Balmer
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Watt, Gertrude Balmer
  subject:
    topic: Journalists
    geographic: Alberta
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Women journalists
    geographic: Alberta
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Journalism
    geographic: Alberta
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  classification: PN4912 .R33 2024
  classification: 070.92/27123
  identifier: 9781774391068
  identifier: 1774391066
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 240403
    record change date: 20250926141408.8
    record identifier: in00005641895
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng