Mennonites in Canada, 1786-1920
| Author | : Frank H. Epp |
| Publisher | : MacMillan of Canada |
| Total Pages | : 488 |
| Release | : 1974 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : |
Mennonites In Canada
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Village Among Nations
| Author | : Royden Loewen |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 2013-12-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1442666730 |
Between the 1920s and the 1940s, 10,000 traditionalist Mennonites emigrated from western Canada to isolated rural sections of Northern Mexico and the Paraguayan Chaco; over the course of the twentieth century, they became increasingly scattered through secondary migrations to East Paraguay, British Honduras, Bolivia, and elsewhere in Latin America. Despite this dispersion, these Canadian-descendant Mennonites, who now number around 250,000, developed a rich transnational culture over the years, resisting allegiance to any one nation and cultivating a strong sense of common peoplehood based on a history of migration, nonviolence, and distinct language and dress. Village among Nations recuperates a missing chapter of Canadian history: the story of these Mennonites who emigrated from Canada for cultural reasons, but then in later generations “returned” in large numbers for economic and social security. Royden Loewen analyzes a wide variety of texts, by men and women – letters, memoirs, reflections on family debates on land settlement, exchanges with curious outsiders, and deliberations on issues of citizenship. They relate the untold experience of this uniquely transnational, ethno-religious community.
Hard Passage
| Author | : Arthur Kroeger |
| Publisher | : University of Alberta |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 2007-01-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780888644732 |
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. Based on Heinrich's diaries and letters, and archival research, Hard Passage speaks to the indomitable spirit of Mennonite immigrants to the Canadian West.
Mennonites in Canada: 1939-1970 : a people transformed
| Author | : Frank H. Epp |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 620 |
| Release | : 1974-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780802004659 |
T.D. Regehr shows how the Second World War challenged the pacifist views of Mennonites and created a population more aware of events, problems, and opportunities for Christian service and personal advancement in the world beyond their traditional rural communities.
One Quilt Many Pieces
| Author | : Margaret Loewen Reimer |
| Publisher | : Herald Press (VA) |
| Total Pages | : 148 |
| Release | : 2008-03-18 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : |
Mennonites in Canada are divided into an astonishing variety of church groups and organizations. Using recent statistics and census figures, Margaret Loewen Reimer introduces the history and distinctive theological characteristics of more than 20 Mennonite groups. Listed here are the membership facts on Old Order communities, mainstream denominations, German-speaking family groups, tiny clusters of congregations, and churches of many ethnicities and languages. Useful information like the offices, schools, camps, periodicals, and institutions of many of the groups are presented in an easy-to-use format.
Subjects Or Citizens?
| Author | : Adolf Ens |
| Publisher | : University of Ottawa Press |
| Total Pages | : 345 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Canada |
| ISBN | : 0776603906 |
"During the 1870s, 7,000 Mennonites - descendants of Dutch and German Anabaptists - arrived in Canada to settle in the newly created province of Manitoba. While in Europe, they had steadily moved eastward under pressure of persecution and governmental restrictions until they settled in "foreign colonies" in New Russia (Ukraine) in 1789. Generations of living as non-citizen settlers under special arrangements with the ruler had reinforced their separatist understanding of what it meant to live in nonconformity with the world." "Adolf Ens's volume traces the tensions of Mennonites becoming full citizens in the participatory democracy of Canada through the crucial steps of immigration, settlement and naturalization, implementing local municipal government, and becoming part of the public school system. This process was greatly complicated by the outbreak of the First World War and the intolerance it produced toward those who were pacifist, German, and different." "Almost 8,000 of the descendants of this immigrant group left for Latin America in the aftermath of the war, becoming subjects once again. The rest gradually accommodated themselves to being full Canadian citizens."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Rewriting the Break Event
| Author | : Robert Zacharias |
| Publisher | : Studies in Immigration and Cul |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780887557477 |
"Despite the fact that Russian Mennonites began arriving in Canada en masse in the 1870s, much Canadian Mennonite literature has been characterized by a compulsive telling and retelling of the fall of the Mennonite Commonwealth of the 1920s and its subsequent migration of 20,000 Russian Mennonites to Canada. This privileging of a seminal dispersal, or "break event," within the broader historic narrative has come to function as a mythological beginning or origin story for the Russian Mennonite community in Canada, and serves as a means of affirming a communal identity across national and generational boundaries.
Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood
| Author | : James Urry |
| Publisher | : Univ. of Manitoba Press |
| Total Pages | : 433 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0887553443 |
Mennonites and their forebears are usually thought to be a people with little interest or involvement in politics. "Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood" reveals that since their early history, Mennonites have, in fact, been active participants in worldly politics. From western to eastern Europe and through different migrations to North America, James Urry's meticulous research traces Mennonite links with kingdoms, empires, republics, and democratic nations in the context of peace, war, and revolution. He stresses a degree of Mennonite involvement in politics not previously discussed in literature, including Mennonite participation in constitutional reform and party politics, and shows the polarization of their political views from conservatism to liberalism and even revolutionary activities. Using a wide variety of sources, Mennonite, Politics, and Peoplehood combines an inter-disciplinary approach to reveal that Mennonites, far from being the "Quiet in the Land," have deep roots in politics.
The Sociology of Canadian Mennonites, Hutterites and Amish
| Author | : Donovan E. Smucker |
| Publisher | : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2010-10-30 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1554587875 |
The editor provides an important new scholarly tool for locating and understanding the enormous expansion of scholarly research dealing with the sociology of Canadian Mennonites, Hutterites and Amish. Although the book includes research from American scholars, the editor devotes special attention to Canadian works concerning these important and interesting minorities. Using the tripartite division of Mennonites, Hutterites and Amish, the bibliography includes 800 entries each with a concise summary and evaluation. The entries are listed under the subheadings: books, theses, articles and unpublished manuscripts. Preceding the bibliography itself is an essay by the editor originally presented to the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association. The essay outlines the differing conceptual assumptions of the researchers included in the book, the major methodologies employed and the main conclusions to be drawn from their work.
Mennonites in Canada, 1786-1920
| Author | : Frank H. Epp |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 480 |
| Release | : 1996-03 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781550560138 |
Covers the Mennonite experience in Canada from the time of the first documented immigrants in 1786 to the Niagara Peninsula in Ontario from Pennsylvania through the conclusion of World War I.
