After European explorers in the fifteenth and sixteenth century found the North American land mass--assuming it was India and naming the indigene people Indians--it became a mythic new world for the Europeans. The idea of the discovery of North America is an imaginative rather than a "found" place because European imperialism "shaped and determined the new world's cultural history." (1) Fiction writers track the western Canada's provincial development. Immigrants, with Eastern or Western European cultural values, settled in the late nineteenth century into new rural towns and urban communities. Robert Kroetsch defines prairie culture discourses containing multi-ethnic small ...