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Showing blog posts tagged with migration.
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Speaking Silences and Divulging Secrets
An excerpt from Karen L. Marrero’s Detroit’s Hidden Channels: The Power of French-Indigenous Families in the Eighteenth Century.
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Excerpt from Civilian Internment in Canada
A collection of essays that asks: Whose security? Whose greater good?
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On researching Communal Solidarity
Immigration, Settlement, and Social Welfare in Winnipeg’s Jewish Community, 1882–1930.
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New Year, New Research
The author of Holocaust Survivors in Canada reflects on child refugees in the aftermath of the Holocaust (and beyond).
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40 Years of Publishing on the Prairies
For University Press Week, we look back at the books UMP has published from 1967-2007.
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"We were called greenies. What more do you need to know?”
The author of Holocaust Survivors in Canada on Canada’s “none is too many” policy towards European Jewish refugees after WWII.
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Murray Watson at Pier 21
The author of Invisible Immigrants presents at the Canadian Museum of Immigration June 12.
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Francis Peddie: Author Q&A
An interview with the author of Young, Well-Educated and Adaptable: Chilean Exiles in Ontario and Quebec, 1973-2010.
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Robert Zacharias Reading List
A list of Mennonite Canadian fiction by the author of Rewriting the Break Event.
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Rob Zacharias' Rewriting the Break Event arrives!
In other news, Rob Zacharias’ Rewriting the Break event came in late last week. Here’s Sales and Marketing Supervisor Cheryl Miki having a flip-through…
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History, Memory, and the Second World War
Hans Werner will be speaking at the Millennium Library on Monday, September 30 at noon and the Henderson Library on Tuesday, October 8 at 6:30 pm. Hans’ latest book, The Constructed Mennonite: History, Memory, and the Second World War, is the story of one man, four identities, and a son’s quest to reconcile the public and private histories of his Mennonite father in WWII.
