Rennie, Bradford James 1960-

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RENNIE, Bradford James 1960-

PERSONAL: Born September 20, 1960, in Westlock, Alberta, Canada; son of Gordon Russel (a provincial court judge) and Phyllis Lorraine (a homemaker; maiden name, Lindquist) Rennie; married Fidelota Altamirano, August 21, 1982; children: Sara. Ethnicity: "Scottish, Swedish, European." Education: University of Calgary, B.A., 1982, B.Ed. (with distinction), 1990, M.A., 1992; University of Victoria, Ph.D., 1998. Politics: "Middle of the road." Religion: Christian.

ADDRESSES: Home—616 27th Ave. NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2M 2J1.

CAREER: University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, instructor in history, summers, 1996-98; University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, instructor in history, 1999-2000; University of Alberta, Edmonton, instructor in history, 2002; historian and writer, 2002—.

WRITINGS:

The Rise of Agrarian Democracy: The United Farmers and Farm Women of Alberta, 1909-1921, University of Toronto Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 2000.

Contributor to periodicals.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Editing and contributing to a book on the premiers of Alberta, for Canadian Plains Research Center; research for a book on the United Farmers and Farm Women of Alberta and the United Farmers of Alberta government, 1921-1935.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

periodicals

Labour/Le Travail, spring, 2002, Catherine A. Cavanaugh, review of The Rise of Agrarian Democracy: The United Farmers and Farm Women of Alberta, 1909-1921, p. 288.

Pacific Northwest Quarterly, winter, 2001, Gene Clanton, review of The Rise of Agrarian Democracy, p. 41.