From refugee to suburbanite : the survival and acculturation of North Kildonan Mennonite immigrant women, 1927-1947

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dc.contributor.authorRegehr, Olga Dycken_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-11-30T21:38:33Z
dc.date.available2009-11-30T21:38:33Z
dc.date.issued2006-08-01T00:00:00Zen_US
dc.degree.disciplineHistoryen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts (M.A.)en_US
dc.description.abstractThe history of the immigrants who belonged to the Mennonite Brethren congregations in North Kildonan, Manitoba, during the 1930s and 1940s has not been told in its entirety. While it is true that there have been many Mennonite renditions of stories related to men's achievements and church struggles, very little has been disclosed regarding women's struggles of survival during their first pioneer years. Women's history has been a well-kept secret. We do not know how these women bore the burden of resettling in desolate prairie homes after leaving their organized life in Ukraine, nor what their everyday lives were like in the first year of their diaspora. We do not know how arduous their work loads were, nor how they skimped and saved to make a future for their daughters that was better than working as domestics. We do not know how courageously they stood behind their husbands in daring new business ventures. But we do know that it is time to study and inquire about such issues. Therefore, this thesis tells an 'inside' story about the ordinary lives of Mennonite immigrant women in North Kildonan. It must be noted that there were two options available to these women, namely, that they live in segregation from the rest of society and in a continuum of their old traditional ways, or that they acculturate to a new cultural reality in their new homeland. They opted for the latter.en_US
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dc.identifier(Sirsi) a1676211en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/3307
dc.language.isoengen_US
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dc.rightsThe reproduction of this thesis has been made available by authority of the copyright owner solely for the purpose of private study and research, and may only be reproduced and copied as permitted by copyright laws or with express written authorization from the copyright owner.en_US
dc.titleFrom refugee to suburbanite : the survival and acculturation of North Kildonan Mennonite immigrant women, 1927-1947en_US
dc.typemaster thesisen_US
local.subject.manitobayesen_US
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