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3940
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English
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The Transfer of Mormon Culture to Alberta
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American Review of Canadian Studies
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Summer 1982
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12
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51-63
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The initial Mormon settlements in southern Alberta were founded by Mormon attempts to avoid prosecution under the Edmonds Act outlawing polygamy in the United States. The settlements, which eventually numbered 17, were farm villages, laid out in a grid pattern. Irrigation techniques were successfully transferred from the Great Basin to Alberta, but attempts to transfer sugar beet cultivation failed. Vestiges of the grid pattern and house lots remain, but only a small portion of Alberta's 50,000 Mormons tend these lands.
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