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."--Jacket
Religions and beliefs series, no. 2
Electronic books
1 online resource (x, 266 pages) : illustrations
9780776603902, 9780776616964, 0776603906, 077661696X
180704310
The Mennonites: A Brief Historical Sketch
Anabaptist-Mennonite Concept of the State
Mennonite Church Relations with the State in Prussia and Russia
The Canadian Experience to 1925: An Overview
Ch. I. Settlement in Canada. Negotiating a Privilegium. Group Migration. Mennonites and the "High" Government: A Summary
Ch. II. Adjusting to Manitoba, 1876-1890. Public Schools: External Resources. Municipal Government: External Authority. Mennonite Solidarity Broken: Unequally Yoked
Ch. III. Westward Expansion, 1890-1910. The Reserves. Government Loan. Non-Mennonite Intruders. Homestead Rights. Hamlet Privilege. Naturalization and Land Patents. Termination of the Reserves. Immigration from Russia and the U.S.A
Ch. IV. The Rift Widens: The Education Issue in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, 1890-1920. Manitoba Education Legislation to 1916. Higher Education: Alliance of Church and State. School Developments, 1890-1916. The "National Schools," 1916. The Zwangsschulen, 1918. Compulsory Attendance: Boycott and Court Enforcement. The Petitions: Articulating the Issues
Ch. V. The War Issues. Military Exemption Provisions. The Early Years of the War. The National Service Registration, 1917. Implementing Mennonite Exemption: Military Service Act, 1917. U.S. Mennonite Immigrants and the Military Service Act. The 1918 National Registration. Financial Involvement: Red Cross and Victory Loans. Press Censorship
Ch. VI. Emigration and Accommodation. The Postwar Situation. The Emigration Option. The Accommodation Option
App. 1. Order-in-Council of April 26, 1872
App. 2. Order-in-Council of September 25, 1872
App. 3. Capital Brought into Canada by Russian Mennonite Immigrants, 1874-1880
App. 4. Sample Homestead Entry Receipt
App. 5. National Service Registration Card, 1917 (Front)
App. 5. National Service Registration Card, 1917 (Back)
App. 6. Mennonite Identification Certificate, World War I
App. 7. Canada Registration Board Cards, 1918
App. 8. Excerpts of the Paraguayan Mennonite Privilegium
App. 9. Sommerfelder Mexican Privilegium
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