Gentile defence of Mormon settlement – 1887

Here is an excerpt which I found in the MacLeod Gazette from August 16, 1887.  Considering this is at the beginning of the Edmunds-Tucker Act and only three months after the Mormons arrived in Cardston this is an amazing defence of the rights of new settlers:

The Mormon Presence in Canada – Book Review

Canadian Mormon history books are few and far between, in part because there are so few members in Canada and part because most of the historical work on Church history is done in the USA.  In fact most of the work that has been done have been folk tale like personal histories which while somewhat useful have to be taken with a large measure of salt.

So it was nice to find a book which included American and Canadian academics talking about the early history of Canada and Mormons.  B.Y. Card, who edited The diaries of Charles Ora Card: The Canadian years, 1886-1903 is one of the editors of this volume.  The book, called The Mormon Presence in Canada, was published in 1990 and details an overview of the Mormon exodus from eastern Canada in the 1830s and their return to southern Alberta area in the 1880s and the aftermath of the settlement.