also socially conservative, as are its provincial wings like the Christian Heritage Party of British Columbia. The People's Party of Canada has also been described as socially conservative. There are other socially conservative provincial parties such as, formerly, the Family Coalition Party of Ontario and the Alberta Social Credit Party. Geography Social conservatism is strongest in Alberta, long Canada's most conservative province, where the Social Credit movement preached evangelical values and came to power in the 1930s. It is a factor as well in parts of British Columbia outside of the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island. Social conservatives are strongest in rural settings, especially in Western Canada, however, social conservatism is not limited geographically to any one area or to any one political party. See also Clerico-nationalism Notes Further reading Ang, Adrian, and John R. Petrocik. "Religion, religiosity, and the moral divide in Canadian politics." Politics and Religion 5.1 (2012): 103-132. Banack, Clark. God's Province: evangelical Christianity, political thought, and conservatism in Alberta (McGill-Queen's Press-MQUP, 2016). Bean, Lydia, Marco Gonzalez, and Jason Kaufman. "Why doesn't Canada have an American-style Christian right? A comparative framework for analyzing the political effects of evangelical subcultural identity." Canadian Journal of Sociology/Cahiers canadiens de sociologie 33.4 (2008): 899-943. online Burkinshaw, Robert K. Pilgrims in Lotus Land: Conservative Protestantism in British Columbia 1917-1981 (Mcgill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion, 1995) Christie, Nancy, and Michael Gauvreau. Christian Churches and Their Peoples, 1840-1965 (University of Toronto Press, 2018). Hoover, Dennis R., et al. "Evangelicalism Meets the Continental Divide: Moral and Economic Conservatism in the United States and Canada." Political Research Quarterly 55.2 (2002): 351-374. online Malloy, Jonathan. "Bush/Harper? Canadian and American evangelical politics compared." American Review of Canadian Studies 39.4 (2009): 352-363. Malloy, Jonathan. "Between America and Europe: Religion, politics and evangelicals in Canada." Politics, Religion & Ideology 12.3 (2011): 317-333. Reimer, Sam. "Political tolerance in Canada: Are religious Canadians and Americans more intolerant?." Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie 58.4 (2021): 531-548. Wilkins-Laflamme, Sarah. "Religious–secular polarization compared: the cases of Quebec and British Columbia." Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 46.2 (2017): 166-185. online Wilkins-Laflamme, Sarah. "The Changing Religious Cleavage in Canadians' Voting Behaviour." Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique 49.3 (2016): 499-518. Wilkins-Laflamme, Sarah. "How unreligious are the religious “nones”? Religious dynamics of the unaffiliated in Canada." Canadian Journal of Sociology/Cahiers canadiens de sociologie 40.4 (2015): 477-500 https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/cjs/index.php/CJS/article/download/21830/19923 online]. Wilkins-Laflamme, Sarah, and Sam