Community and Frontier

A Ukrainian Settlement in the Canadian Parkland

John C. Lehr

• Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9780887557255
• eBook ISBN: 9780887554070
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Historical Geography
• Index: History

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• List of Figures
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 - Beginnings: Imperial Ideology and Peasant Imaginings
• Chapter 2 - Settlement: Farm Families and a New Environment
• Chapter 3 - Proving Up and Working Out: Women, Men, and Government Officials
• Chapter 4 - Infrastructure and Communications: Linking a Colony to an Empire
• Chapter 5 - The Development of Commerce: Ethnic and Class Relations and Colonial Economics
• Chapter 6 - Health: From Folk Medicine to Mission Hospital
• Chapter 7 - Education: Charting Paths beyond the Farm
• Chapter 8 - Colonizing Stuartburn: Religion, Culture, and Identity
• Photo Insert
• Chapter 9 - Local Disorder and the Metropolitan Reach
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index