Community and Frontier
Subtitle: A Ukrainian Settlement in the Canadian Parkland
Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
Published: Sep 15, 2011
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780887557255
Description: "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."--Pub. desc.
Notes: Source title: Community and Frontier: A Ukrainian Settlement in the Canadian Parkland (Studies in Immigration and Culture)