Hard Passage: A Mennonite Family's Long Journey from Russia to CanadaUniversity of Alberta, 15. sij 2007. - Broj stranica: 269 In the 1920s, 20,000 Mennonites left the newly formed Soviet Union and emigrated to Canada. Among them were Heinrich and Helena Kroeger and their five children. After living for 120 years in the comfortable surroundings of a Russian Mennonite community, the Kroeger family experienced war, revolution, a typhus epidemic, and hyper-inflation in quick succession. In 1926, they left their homeland to settle in an arid region of Western Canada. Based on Heinrich's diaries and letters, and archival research, Hard Passage speaks to the indomitable spirit of Mennonite immigrants to the Canadian West. |
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Before the Flood | 9 |
War 19141918 | 31 |
Civil War 19181920 | 47 |
Hay for Butter 19201924 | 63 |
Opening the Way | 73 |
Even the Strong Wept | 85 |
Canada | 109 |
The Great Lone Land | 111 |
British Subjects and Aliens | 171 |
Farms Schools and Neighbours | 187 |
Finding our Feet 19361946 | 211 |
Exile and Dispersal | 227 |
Consort | 233 |
A Nightmare from the Past | 241 |
Epilogue | 245 |
Notes | 255 |
To Be at Home Somewhere 19261930 | 115 |
Boiled Apple Peels 19301934 | 127 |
Russian Thistle and Relief 19341939 | 145 |
The Door Closes | 165 |
Bibliography | 263 |
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