Community and frontier : a Ukrainian settlement in the Canadian parkland / John C. Lehr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lehr, John.

Series:

Studies in immigration and culture ; 6.

Studies in immigration and culture, 1914-1459 ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ukrainian Canadians--Manitoba--Stuartburn Region--History.

Ukrainian Canadians.

Ukrainian Canadians--Manitoba--Stuartburn Region--Social conditions.

Frontier and pioneer life--Manitoba--Stuartburn Region.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Stuartburn Region (Man.)--History.

Stuartburn Region (Man.).

Stuartburn Region (Man.)--Biography.

Manitoba.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

vii, 216 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, 2011.

Summary:

Established in 1896, the Stuartburn colony was one of the earliest Ukrainian settlements in western Canada. Based on an analysis of government records, pioneer memoirs, and the Ukrainian and English language press, Community and Frontier is a detailed examination of the social, economic, and geographical challenges of this unique ethnic community. It reveals a complex web of inter- ethnic and colonial relationships that created a community that was a far cry from the homogeneous ethnic block settlement feared by the opponents of eastern European immigration. Instead, ethnic relationships and attitudes transplanted from Europe affected the development of trade within the colony, while Ukrainian religious factionalism and the predatory colonial attitudes of mainstream Canadian churches fractured the community and for decades contributed to social dysfunction.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Beginnings: Imperial Ideology and Peasant Imaginings 19

Chapter 2 Settlement: Farm Families and a New Environment 25

Chapter 3 Proving Up and Working Out: Women, Men, and Government Officials 54

Chapter 4 Infrastructure and Communications: Linking a Colony to an Empire 67

Chapter 5 The Development of Commerce: Ethnic and Class Relations and Colonial Economics 84

Chapter 6 Health: From Folk Medicine to Mission Hospital 106

Chapter 7 Education: Charting Paths Beyond the Farm 118

Chapter 8 Colonizing Stuartburn: Religion, Culture, and Identity 140

Chapter 9 Local Disorder and the Metropolitan Reach 153.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780887557255

0887557252

OCLC:

702799818