The volume you are holding was inspired by an exhibit which proudly carried the title Land of Promise: The Jewish Experience in Southern Alberta.

      The exhibit was a large, transportable gallery of more than four hundred photographs and documents, complete with explanatory captions and additional text that included family histories. About two years in the making, it made its public debut in November, 1992 in honour of Canada's 125th anniversary year and over one hundred years of Jewish settlement in Southern Alberta.

      After its initial success at the Calgary Jewish Centre, the exhibit became an attraction at Fort Calgary. It then went on tour to Edmonton and, at the request of the Jewish Historical Society of British Columbia, to Vancouver.