Download or read book Community and Frontier written by John C. Lehr and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2012-05-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A social and economic history of one of the oldest Ukrainian settlements in Western Canada. 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.
Download or read book Pioneer Life Selections from Manitoba Pageant written by Manitoba Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Farm Women on the Prairie Frontier written by Carol Fairbanks and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four essays provide useful introductions to the land and the people, the history, and the fiction of the grasslands of Canada and the United States. Annotations direct readers and researchers to relevant materials in history and literature. ...An excellent bibliography...good interpretative essays...--WOMEN'S DIARIES
Download or read book PRAIRIE written by PV Eyre-Walker and published by Leaves of Gold Press. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable historical tale from the pen of P V Eyre-Walker, the first European child to be born in the remote wilderness of Manitoba, Canada. Against the backdrop of the remote prairies, a spectacularly beautiful landscape where the snowbound winters were long and harsh, she and her family struggled against want, sickness and hardship. Pioneering life on the prairie in the late 19th century was harsh and relentless - far different from anything they had ever known. The Walker family emigrated from England to Canada in 1883. This memoir was penned by a daughter of that family, christened with the unusual name of ‘Prairie’. ‘... They called her ‘Prairie Violet’ because she was the first white baby born on the prairie in North West Manitoba... ’ Prairie had not yet been born at the time when many of the events she recounts took place. She learned of them from her father, ‘The Doctor’. During the long winter nights, snowed in on the remote vastness of Canada, this intrepid Englishman would have entertained his family with tales of his adventures. The author retells them in so much lively detail that it is easy to imagine her and her eight siblings clustered at his knee in the firelight begging, ‘Tell us those stories again, Papa!’ These fascinating recorded fragments give us a glimpse into a bygone era, describing a pioneering lifestyle that is utterly alien to most of us. One can only admire the determination and character of those who struggled to survive in the harsh and beautiful wilderness of nineteenth century Canada. This authentic autobiography will warm your heart.
Download or read book Letters from a Young Emigrant in Manitoba written by Ronald A. Wells and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters from a Young Emigrant in Manitoba first published in 1883 and long out of print, is one of the best records of Canadian immigrant life. The letters were written by Edward ffolkes, who left England in 1880 to study at the Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph and later to homestead in southern Manitoba. They describe with rare insight the daily struggles and expectations of an “ordinary” man who had the courage to take up a new life on the frontier. Ronald A. Wells has introduced the volume with a wide-ranging essay on the role of popular knowledge about Canada in Britain and the significant shift of British migration from the United States for Canada at the end of the nineteenth century. This edition has been designed in the style of the original, with the addition of Norman Schmidt’s evocative line drawings.
Download or read book Catalog written by Yale University. Library. Yale Collection of Western Americana and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Canadian Selection written by Alvan Bregman and published by Published for the Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Culture and the Centre for Research in Librarianship, University of Toronto [by] University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Old Way North written by David F. Pelly and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the Oberholtzer-Magee expedition and the hidden history-both natural and human-of this vast and beautiful wilderness.
Download or read book Lord Selkirk written by J.M. Bumsted and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Douglas, the Fifth Earl of Selkirk (1770–1820), was a complex man of his times, whose passions left an indelible mark on Canadian history. A product of the Scottish Enlightenment and witness to the French Revolution, he dedicated his fortune and energy to the vision of a new colony at the centre of North America. His final legacy, the Red River Settlement, led to the eventual end of the dominance of the fur trade and began the demographic and social transformation of western Canada. The product of three decades of research, this is the definitive biography of Lord Selkirk. Bumsted’s passionate prose and thoughtful analysis illuminate not only the man, but also the political and economic realities of the British empire at the turn of the nineteenth century. He analyzes Selkirk’s position within these realities, showing how his paternalistic attitudes informed his “social experiments” in colonization and translated into unpredictable, and often tragic, outcomes. Bumsted also provides extensive detail on the complexities of colonization, the Scottish Enlightenment, Scottish peerage, the fur trade, the Red River settlement, and early British-Canadian politics.
Download or read book From the Prairies with Hope written by Jane L. Aberson and published by University of Regina Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Aberson's newspaper articles document the everyday life of a Dutch immigrant family farming on the prairies six miles from Dauphin, Manitoba, during the Depression. They were published in Dutch from 1929 to 1966. The articles contain a continuous record, except for the war years, of the settlement experience of an immigrant family for thirty years. At the age of eighty, the author translated into English a particular set of articles covering the years 1929-36. This document contains her letters from this period.
Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to North American History written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Unsettled written by Robert Lower and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating story of the Red River Settlement, now Winnipeg, in the years 1813 to 1816, told with archival journals, reports, and letters Unsettled tells the story of two hundred Highlanders who flee the Scottish Clearances in 1813 to establish a settlement on the Red River in what eventually became Winnipeg. They are sponsored by the Earl of Selkirk, a man who has never been west of Montreal. Families who have never left their Highland crofts take an epic journey over ocean, up wild rivers, and through boundless wilderness, surviving disease and brutal winter only to face the determined opposition of fur barons who want no sodbusters threatening their trade and are prepared to stop at nothing to destroy their dream. The “empty” land they’ve been promised is also anything but, already occupied by First Nations bands and the beginnings of that proud nation soon to be called Métis, whom they must befriend or fight. Unsettled takes you inside the experience, relying on journals, reports, and letters to bring these days of soaring hope, crushing despair, and heroic determination to life — to bring their present into ours.
Download or read book True Tales of Pioneer Life on the Old American Frontier written by William Francis Hooker and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas written by New York Public Library. Reference Dept and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
