Cover
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Introduction
The Frontier
Sources of Data
Chapter 1 - Beginnings: Imperial Ideology and Peasant Imaginings
The Dominion Lands Survey
Land Appraisal: The Government’s Assessment of the District
Settlers’ Appraisal of Lands
Social Ties and Homestead Selection
The Expansion of Settlement
Squatting
Conclusion
Chapter 3 - Proving Up and Working Out: Women, Men, and Government Officials
Proving Up
Working Out
Shelter
Water Supply
Crops
Foodways
Drainage
Railways
Roads
Telecommunications
Postal Services
Rural Electrification
Introduction
Immigrants, Capital, and Trade
The Development of Service Centres on the Colony’s Periphery
Jewish Pioneer Merchants
Identity, Religion, and Trade
Markets, Stores, and Credit
Conclusion
Chapter 6 - Health: From Folk Medicine to Mission Hospital
Access to Medical Care
Evangelism and Medicine
Financial Issues
Education in the Old Country
Education and Assimilation
Organizing Education on the Frontier
The Economics of Frontier Education
Language and Loyalty Issues
Training Ukrainian Teachers
The Logistics of Frontier Education
Building Community Life
Ukrainian Identity and Religion at the Turn of the Century
Early Settlement and Religion in the Stuartburn Colony
Religious Factionalism within the Pioneer Community
Alien Intrusions
Photo Insert
Chapter 9 - Local Disorder and the Metropolitan Reach
Conclusion
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Beginnings
Chapter 2 - Settlement
Chapter 3 - Proving Up and Working Out
Chapter 4 - Infrastructure and Communications
Chapter 5 - The Development of Commerce
Chapter 6 - Health
Chapter 7 - Education
Chapter 8 - Colonizing Stuartburn
Chapter 9 - Local Disorder and the Metropolitan Reach
Conclusion
Ukrainian-Language Newspapers
Books and Journals
Index