The Canadian Northern Railway: Pioneer Road of the Northern Prairies 1895-1918

Regehr, T.D.

Macmillan of Canada

When war broke out in 1939 Canadian Mennonites were overwhelmingly a rural people. By 1970 they had largely completed one of the greatest `migrations' in their history - the transformation from a rural to an urban community. In this third and final volume of Mennonite history in Canada, T.D. Regehr shows how the Second World War challenged the pacifist views of Mennonites and created a population more aware of events, problems, and opportunities for Christian service and personal advancement in the world beyond their traditional rural communities. Regehr describes how the war also initiated the urbanization process and brought in its wake a new wave of Mennonite immigrants, with different traditions and values, from Europe.Regehr traces as well the less cataclysmic and more far-reaching influences of urbanization on Mennonite identity. He demonstrates how the specialization, rationalism, and individualism that typically accompany the shift from a rural to an urban society produced new vocations, including a large business and professional class; created new values that were often at odds with traditional ones; and profoundly affected community and church life. Regehr balances a detailed institutional analysis with numerous insights into the lives of ordinary people, stressing the role and problems of women in what has been essentially a patriarchal society. Though, as he shows, the Mennonites were `a people transformed,' they were not assimilated. They retained a separate identity and preserved the distinctiveness of their faith and culture.

Mennonites in Canada, 1939-1970: A People Transformed (Mennonites in Canada, Vol 3)

History

Americas

University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division

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Beauharnois Scandal: A Story of Canadian Entrepreneurship and Politics

Business & Money

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Univ of Toronto Pr

<p>This booklet expands upon Regehr's lectures in which he argues that demographic and political shifts in how Mennonites engage the Canadian federalist democracy leave today's Mennonites with an uncertain hermeneutic. The Mennonites are no longer exclusively ethnic. A demographic typology includes those who are ethnic and committed to the Mennonite church, ethnic and non-churched, non-ethnic and part of the Mennonite church, or ethnic and part of another denomination. Concurrent with this demographic shift, the politics of Canadian Mennonites has changed from alternating swings of martyrdom and patronage, to a disproportionately high representation in elections and candidacies--roughly one-quarter of the recent Manitoba provincial candidacies. --From the Foreword by Dan Wessner</p>

Peace, Order and Good Government : Mennonites and Politics in Canada

C M B C Publications Canadian Mennonite Bible College

A Generation of Vigilance: The Lives and Work of Johannes and Tina Harder

CMU Press

Mennonites in Canada, 1939-1970: A People Transformed (Heritage)

University of Toronto Press

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