No streets of gold : a social history of Ukrainians in Alberta / Helen Potrebenko.

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Potrebenko, Helen.

Title & Author:

No streets of gold : a social history of Ukrainians in Alberta / Helen Potrebenko.

Publication:

Vancouver : New Star Books, 1977.

Description:

iii, 311 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-311).
How I Became a Canadian -- 1. The Homesteaders -- 2. Provincehood: 1905-1914 -- 3. The First World War: 1914-1918 -- 4. The Rise and Fall of the O.B.U. -- 5. The Twenties -- 6. The Depression -- 7. Sunset House -- 8. Still the Depression -- 9. The Second World War -- 10. Alberta Now.

Summary:

Multiculturalism, immigration policy, Canadian identity and racism - these are widely discussed topics nowadays. In NO STREETS OF GOLD they are critically examined in light of the Ukranian-Canadian experience, from the first wave of immigrants in the 1890s to the present. Ukranian is the fifth largest nationality in Canada after British, French, German, Italian. In 1971 there were 580 600 Ukrainians in Canada, 2.7 percent of Canada's population. 81.7 percent of Ukranian-Canadians were born in Canada. Their story is not always a pleasant one. It is a story about farmers and workers, men and women who struggled for a better life for themselves and for us, and who got it for us and it left them broken. Throughout, Potrebenko asks: Who held power? How did it affect those who didn't? What did they do about it? The answers amount to a valuable book of Canadian history. As well as stories of her own family, the author presents life stories translated from Ukranian of many early Canadian settlers.

Resources:
French equivalent / Équivalent français

ISBN:

0919888704
9780919888708
0919888690 (pbk.)
9780919888692 (pbk.)

Subject:

Ukrainians Alberta History.
Ukrainian Canadians Alberta History.
Ukrainiens Alberta Histoire.
Ukrainians
Alberta History.
Alberta Histoire.
Alberta

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 150336
Call No.: FC3700.U5 P6 1977
Status: Available

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