"She brought it to Canada in 1926": Material culture and the creation of a Russländer identity

dc.contributor.authorKlassen, Jenna R.
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeWerner, Hans (History)en_US
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeKeshavjee, Serena (History)en_US
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeSawatsky, Roland (Manitoba Museum)en_US
dc.contributor.supervisorRoyden Loewen (History)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-22T15:41:51Z
dc.date.available2019-11-22T15:41:51Z
dc.date.issued2019en_US
dc.date.submitted2019-11-21T14:07:56Zen
dc.degree.disciplineHistoryen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts (M.A.)en_US
dc.description.abstractThroughout the 1920s, over twenty-four thousand Mennonites migrated to Canada from the Soviet Union in search of safety, security, and economic opportunity. When they were finally given the opportunity to seek refuge in Canada, this group of Mennonites, referred to within the disparate Canadian Mennonite community as the Russländer, had very few belongings to bring to their new home and limited ability to transport what they had retained. Four hundred-sixty of these belongings are preserved in the artefact collection of the Mennonite Heritage Village in Steinbach, Manitoba. Their survival for over a century, and some longer, may seem miraculous. However, these items have been intentionally preserved by Russländer immigrants and their children and grandchildren for decades. Examining Russländer migration narratives through memoir, artefact collection, and oral histories from Russländer descendants reveals that objects are embedded with memory and emotion, and are used by immigrants and their descendants to create ethnic identities.en_US
dc.description.noteFebruary 2020en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/34378
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.subjectMennoniteen_US
dc.subjectImmigrationen_US
dc.subjectMaterial cultureen_US
dc.title"She brought it to Canada in 1926": Material culture and the creation of a Russländer identityen_US
dc.typemaster thesisen_US
local.subject.manitobayesen_US
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