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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456190903321

Autore

Luciuk Lubomyr Y.

Titolo

Searching for place : Ukrainian displaced persons, Canada, and the migration of memory / / Lubomyr Y. Luciuk ; with a foreword by Norman Davies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2001

©2000

ISBN

1-4426-7967-0

1-282-02593-7

9786612025938

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (627 p.)

Disciplina

971/.00491791

Soggetti

Ukrainians - Canada - History - 20th century

Refugees - Ukraine - History - 20th century

Refugees - Government policy - Canada

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword / Davies, Norman -- Acknowledgment -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- 1. The Plan -- 2. 'From a Police Point of View': The Origins of the Ukrainian Canadian Community, 1891-1920 -- 3. 'The Man Who Knew': Organizing the Ukrainian Canadian Community, from the 1920s to the 1940s -- 4. 'Saskatchewan's Son': Ukrainian Canadian Soldiers Encounter the Displaced Persons, 1941-1945 -- 5. 'A Subject Which We Cannot Ignore': Unexpected Problems with Ukrainian Canadian Relief Operations, 1945-1946 -- 6. 'The Least Inspiring of Postwar Problems': The Anglo-American Powers, Ukrainian Independence, and the Refugees -- 7. 'Ironing Out the Differences': Changing Ukrainian Canadian Attitudes towards the DPs, 1946-1950 -- 8. 'Ironing Out the Differences': Changing Ukrainian Canadian Attitudes towards the DPs, 1946-1950 -- 9. 'The Vexed Ukrainian Question': Curbing Ukrainian Nationalism in the Postwar World -- 10. 'A Good Canadian': The View



from Ottawa -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Sources -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Canada was not in a welcoming mood when Ukrainian and other refugees began arriving in Canada after the second world war. In this book Lubomyr Luciuk delineates the efforts of the established Ukrainian-Canadian community to rescue and resettle Ukrainian refugees, despite the indifference and even hostility of the Canadian government. He shows how this triangular relationship coloured federal attitudes to both the resident old-guard Ukrainian population and the ancestral Ukrainian homeland.Luciuk draws on personal diaries and correspondence, over 300 in-depth interviews, and previously unmined government archives to interpret the meaning and value of the Ukrainian experience in Canada. Using a host of contextual sidelights to illuminate larger historical issues, Luciuk produces an account that is both scholarly and intimate. Above all, he reveals how the Ukrainian-Canadian identity has been manipulated, negotiated and recast during the 100 years of its existence.Treating matters that were virtually incendiary in their day, Luciuk tells his story with journalistic skill and a clear interpretive vision. "Searching for Place" is a thorough, meticulous and original contribution to the study of the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada.