Mennonites in Canada, 1786-1920
Author: Frank H. Epp
Publisher: MacMillan of Canada
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13:
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Village Among Nations
Author: Royden Loewen
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2013-12-06
Total Pages: 471
ISBN-13: 1442666730
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween the 1920s and the 1940s, 10,000 traditionalist Mennonites emigrated from western Canada to isolated rural sections of Northern Mexico and the Paraguayan Chaco; over the course of the twentieth century, they became increasingly scattered through secondary migrations to East Paraguay, British Honduras, Bolivia, and elsewhere in Latin America. Despite this dispersion, these Canadian-descendant Mennonites, who now number around 250,000, developed a rich transnational culture over the years, resisting allegiance to any one nation and cultivating a strong sense of common peoplehood based on a history of migration, nonviolence, and distinct language and dress. Village among Nations recuperates a missing chapter of Canadian history: the story of these Mennonites who emigrated from Canada for cultural reasons, but then in later generations “returned” in large numbers for economic and social security. Royden Loewen analyzes a wide variety of texts, by men and women – letters, memoirs, reflections on family debates on land settlement, exchanges with curious outsiders, and deliberations on issues of citizenship. They relate the untold experience of this uniquely transnational, ethno-religious community.
Hard Passage
Author: Arthur Kroeger
Publisher: University of Alberta
Published: 2007-01-15
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780888644732
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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. Based on Heinrich's diaries and letters, and archival research, Hard Passage speaks to the indomitable spirit of Mennonite immigrants to the Canadian West.
One Quilt Many Pieces
Author: Margaret Loewen Reimer
Publisher: Herald Press (VA)
Published: 2008-03-18
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMennonites in Canada are divided into an astonishing variety of church groups and organizations. Using recent statistics and census figures, Margaret Loewen Reimer introduces the history and distinctive theological characteristics of more than 20 Mennonite groups. Listed here are the membership facts on Old Order communities, mainstream denominations, German-speaking family groups, tiny clusters of congregations, and churches of many ethnicities and languages. Useful information like the offices, schools, camps, periodicals, and institutions of many of the groups are presented in an easy-to-use format.
Mennonites in Canada: 1939-1970 : a people transformed
Author: Frank H. Epp
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1974-01-01
Total Pages: 620
ISBN-13: 9780802004659
DOWNLOAD EBOOKT.D. Regehr shows how the Second World War challenged the pacifist views of Mennonites and created a population more aware of events, problems, and opportunities for Christian service and personal advancement in the world beyond their traditional rural communities.
Mennonites in Canada, 1786-1920
Author: Frank H. Epp
Publisher:
Published: 1996-03
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9781550560138
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovers the Mennonite experience in Canada from the time of the first documented immigrants in 1786 to the Niagara Peninsula in Ontario from Pennsylvania through the conclusion of World War I.
Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood
Author: James Urry
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 0887553443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMennonites and their forebears are usually thought to be a people with little interest or involvement in politics. "Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood" reveals that since their early history, Mennonites have, in fact, been active participants in worldly politics. From western to eastern Europe and through different migrations to North America, James Urry's meticulous research traces Mennonite links with kingdoms, empires, republics, and democratic nations in the context of peace, war, and revolution. He stresses a degree of Mennonite involvement in politics not previously discussed in literature, including Mennonite participation in constitutional reform and party politics, and shows the polarization of their political views from conservatism to liberalism and even revolutionary activities. Using a wide variety of sources, Mennonite, Politics, and Peoplehood combines an inter-disciplinary approach to reveal that Mennonites, far from being the "Quiet in the Land," have deep roots in politics.
Rewriting the Break Event
Author: Robert Zacharias
Publisher: Studies in Immigration and Cul
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780887557477
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Despite the fact that Russian Mennonites began arriving in Canada en masse in the 1870s, much Canadian Mennonite literature has been characterized by a compulsive telling and retelling of the fall of the Mennonite Commonwealth of the 1920s and its subsequent migration of 20,000 Russian Mennonites to Canada. This privileging of a seminal dispersal, or "break event," within the broader historic narrative has come to function as a mythological beginning or origin story for the Russian Mennonite community in Canada, and serves as a means of affirming a communal identity across national and generational boundaries.
Menno-Nightcaps
Author: S. L. Klassen
Publisher: TouchWood Editions
Published: 2021-09-06
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 1771513594
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA satirical cocktail book featuring seventy-seven cocktail recipes accompanied by arcane trivia on Mennonite history, faith, and cultural practices. At last, you think, a book of cocktails that pairs punny drinks with Mennonite history! Yes, cocktail enthusiast and author of the popular Drunken Mennonite blog Sherri Klassen is here to bring some Low German love to your bar cart. Drinks like Brandy Anabaptist, Migratarita, Thrift Store Sour, and Pimm’s Cape Dress are served up with arcane trivia on Mennonite history, faith, and cultural practices. Arranged by theme, the book opens with drinks inspired by the Anabaptists of sixteenth-century Europe (Bloody Martyr, anyone?), before moving on to religious beliefs and practices (a little like going to a bar after class in Seminary, but without actually going to class). The third chapter toasts the Mennonite history of migration (Old Piña Colony), and the fourth is all about the trappings of Mennonite cultural identity (Singalong Sling). With seventy-seven recipes, ripping satire, comical illustrations, a cocktails-to-mocktails chapter for the teetotallers, and instructions on scaling up for barn-raisings and funerals, it’s just the thing for the Mennonite, Menno-adjacent, or merely Menno-curious home mixologist.
Manufacturing Mennonites
Author: Janis Thiessen
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2013-01-01
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1442611138
DOWNLOAD EBOOKManufacturing Mennonites examines the efforts of Mennonite intellectuals and business leaders to redefine the group's ethno-religious identity in response to changing economic and social conditions after 1945. As the industrial workplace was one of the most significant venues in which competing identity claims were contested during this period, Janis Thiessen explores how Mennonite workers responded to such redefinitions and how they affected class relations. Through unprecedented access to extensive private company records, Thiessen provides an innovative comparison of three businesses founded, owned, and originally staffed by Mennonites: the printing firm Friesens Corporation, the window manufacturer Loewen, and the furniture manufacturer Palliser. Complemented with interviews with workers, managers, and business owners, Manufacturing Mennonites pioneers two important new trajectories for scholarship - how religion can affect business history, and how class relations have influenced religious history.
