Book Review: "Peace, Progress and Prosperity": A Biography of Saskatchewan's First Premier, T. Walter Scott. By Gordon L. Barnhart.

Authors

J. William Brennan, University of ReginaFollow

Date of this Version

May 2002

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 2 (Spring 2002). Published by the Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Copyright © 2000 Center for Great Plains Studies. Used by permission.

Abstract

This biography establishes Walter Scott as one of the major political figures in the history of Saskatchewan. It also sheds new light on Scott's personal life, especially his long battle with manic depression which cut short his political career at the relatively young age of forty-nine.

Gordon Barnhart provides a revealing account of Walter Scott's early (and somewhat troubled) life in Ontario, and his rise to prominence in the newspaper business and then in politics in Regina and the North-West Territories during the 1880s and 1890s. After 1900 he was the Member of Parliament for Assiniboia West, having defeated the district's longtime member Nicholas Flood Davin.