Subjects Or Citizens?: The Mennonite Experience in Canada, 1870-1925"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 |
Contents
Settlement in Canada | 11 |
Adjusting to Manitoba 18761890 | 61 |
Westward Expansion 18901910 | 85 |
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Ältester Altona April Arthur Meighen August Berdiansk Bergthal Bergthaler Church Bishop Blumenort Canada Canadian government Chortitzer colony congregation council December delegation Deputy Minister district schools Dominion Lands Act Dominion Lands Agent Dyck East elected emigration February Friesen Gebietsamt Gerhard Wiebe German Greenway Gretna H. H. Ewert Hague Hespeler homestead Hutterites Ibid Inspector Interior Jacob January Johann Wiebe July June Klaas Peters Klassen Kleine Gemeinde leaders legislation loan Manitoba Mennonites March Menno Mennonite Church Mennonite district Mennonite groups Mennonite immigrants Mennonite Reserve Mennonite schools Mennonites in Canada Mexico MHCA military service Mitarbeiter nites nonite November October Official Trustee Ontario order-in-council Ottawa Paraguay private schools Privilegium province Reinland Reinländer Reinländer Mennonites Rempel Rhineland Rosthern Russia Russian Mennonite Saskatchewan Schanzenfeld School Attendance Act Search of Utopia Secretary September settlers Sommerfelder Steinbach Stoesz Swift Current tion townships Valentine Winkler village West Reserve William Hespeler Winkler Winnipeg
References to this book
From the Inside Out: The Rural Worlds of Mennonite Diarists, 1863 to 1929 Manitoba Record Society No preview available - 1999 |