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15081
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English
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Canada, LDS Pioneer Settlements in
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Encyclopedia of Mormonism, v. 1
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New York
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Macmillan
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252-54
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LDS experience in Canada provides an important comparison to the study of the Church in the United States. Though the Church settlements of southern Alberta, begun in the late nineteenth century, were an extension of the LDS cultural region in the Great Basin, they gradually developed a unique character because they lay at the frontier intersection of two commonwealths, the Canadian and the Mormon-and as a hinterland of each.