Vilni Zemli (Free Lands); The Ukrainian Settlement of Alberta

MacGregor, J. G.

Verlag: McClelland and Stewart Ltd, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1969

Beschreibung

In Good Used Condition. With Name Inside Front Cover And With A Very Rough Wear/Tear To Dust Jacket. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. ~ "Vilni Zemli" is Ukrainian for "Free Lands" and this is precisely what brought Iwan Pylypow to Canada in 1891. He came to inspect the Canadian Northwest as a possible homeland for his people, the farmers of Galicia, who were short of land and facing eventual starvation. He liked what he saw, and the next year Pylypow personally settled nine Ukrainian families at Star, Alberta. Soon Sir Clifford Sifton's immigration policy had opened the Canadian West, and thousands of Ukrainian farmers and Workers-Galicians (from the Austrian section of the Ukraine) and Bukovinians (from the Rumanian section) settled on pioneer homesteads across the prairie provinces. The Ukrainian farming communities in Alberta thrived although they were faced with problems of loneliness, intolerance, internal religious dissension, and the divided loyalties caused by the First World War. The Ukrainian people gradually overcame these however, and in many ways their experience became the history of the Canadian West itself. Although not of Ukrainian descent himself, JJG. MacGregor decided to chronicle the Ukrainian immigrations to Canada from 1891 to the 1920's when he realized the immense impact of the Ukrainian settlements on Western Canada. He writes as an historian with a good eye for significant detail and a love of the country. The events he describes are rich in ethnic and local colour. In writing Vilni Zemli (Free Lands): The Ukrainian Settlement of Alberta, he borrowed a great deal from unpublished reminiscences and from the oral tradition of the Ukrainian pioneers themselves. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 010779

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Titel: Vilni Zemli (Free Lands); The Ukrainian ...

Verlag: McClelland and Stewart Ltd, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Erscheinungsdatum: 1969

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor