Imagined Homes: Soviet German Immigrants in Two Cities is a study of the social and cultural integration of two migrations of German speakers from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union to Winnipeg, Cana
The provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta were settled by many groups of immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who retained their religious and cultural traditions. Swyripa (
A quixotic figure, Vasile Avramenko (1895?1981) used folk culture and modern media in a life-long crusade to promote Ukraine’s struggle for independence to North American audiences. From his base in N
The reception of 35,000 Jewish survivors of Nazi persecution and their dependents in the decade following the Second World War represents a watershed moment in Canadian Jewish history. The unprecedent
Despite being one of the largest immigrant groups contributing to the development of modern Canada, the story of the English has been all but untold. InInvisible Immigrants, Barber and Watson document
Despite the fact that Russian Mennonites began arriving in Canada en masse in the 1870s, Canadian Mennonite literature has been characterized by a compulsive telling and retelling of the migration of
Storied Landscapes is a beautifully written, sweeping examination of the evolving identity of major ethno-religious immigrant groups in the Canadian West. Viewed through the lens of attachment to the
Between 1973 and 1978, six thousand Chilean leftists took refuge in central Canada after the Pinochet coup d’etat. Once resettled at the northern extreme of the Americas, these political exiles had to
