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| Title: | Hard Passage
: A Mennonite Family's Long Journey from Russia to Canada |
| Author: | Arthur Kroeger |
| ISBN: | 0888644736 : 9780888644732 |
| Illustrations: | b/w photos & maps |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 269 |
| Weight: | .432 Kg. |
| Published: | University of Alberta Press - January 2007 |
| List Price: | 20.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Family history |
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. After living for 120 years in the comfortable surroundings of a Russian Mennonite community, the Kroeger family experienced war, revolution, a typhus epidemic, and hyper-inflation in quick succession. In 1926, they left their homeland to settle in an arid region of Western Canada. Based on Heinrich's diaries and letters, "Hard Passage" speaks to the indomitable spirit of Mennonite immigrants to the Canadian West.
Before the Flood; War, 1914-1918; Civil War, 1918-1920; Hay for Butter, 1920-1924; Opening the Way; Even the Strong Wept; The Great Lone Land; To Be at Home Somewhere, 1926-1930; Boiled Apple Peels, 1930-1934; Russian Thistle and Relief, 1934-1939; The Door Closes; British Subjects and Aliens; Farms, Schools and Neighbours; Finding Our Feet, 1936-1946.
