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Hard Passage: A Mennonite Family's Long Journey from Russia to Canada

Hard Passage: A Mennonite Family's Long Journey from Russia to Canada Paperback / softback - 2007

by Arthur Kroeger

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Paperback / softback. New. Having struggled through World War I, the Communist Revolution, a civil war, and widespread famine, the Kroegers uproot their five children and leave behind their home and community for a foreign land. A social history of Mennonite immigrants to the Canadian West.
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  • Title Hard Passage: A Mennonite Family's Long Journey from Russia to Canada
  • Author Arthur Kroeger
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition Second
  • Condition New
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Alberta Press, Edmonton
  • Date January 15, 2007
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Recycled Paper, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780888644732
  • ISBN 9780888644732 / 0888644736
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 6.53 x 0.7 in (22.81 x 16.59 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1920's
    • Cultural Region: Canadian
    • Cultural Region: Russian
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Library of Congress subjects Mennonites - Canada, Mennonites - Canada - History
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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From the rear cover

After a distinguished career as one of Canada's top public servants, Arthur Kroeger turned his formidable intelligence and curiosity on his own family's history--a history to which he had hitherto paid little attention. And what an extraordinary and moving tale he found! He takes us, over the course of three generations, from a bustling Mennonite village in Russian Ukraine in the late nineteenth century to the windswept landscape of Alberta in the mid-twentieth century. He also takes us deep into family traumas--the terrors of the anarchist uprisings in the Ukraine, the hunger of the Depression years on the Prairies. Kroeger's account of his family's struggles illuminates the Canadian immigrant experience with the kind of poignant detail often lost in more general histories. His commitment to recording the strength and stamina of the Mennonite community is impressive, but it is the meticulous research and affectionate tone of this memoir that brings Hard Passage alive. Charlotte Gray

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About the author

Arthur Kroeger had a 34-year career in the federal public service, half of it spent serving as a deputy minister. After graduating from the University of Alberta, he studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Following his years in government, he taught at several Canadian universities, and served as chancellor at Carleton University. Arthur Kroeger was a resident of Ottawa until his death in 2008.