Return of the Kanadier:
A History Conference on a Migrant People
Thursday, October 3 to Saturday, October 5, 2002
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An academic conference examining the history of the immigration and integration of Kanadier Mennonites from Paraguay, Mexico and other Latin American countries into Canada.
The conference will pay special attention to the accomplishments of these Mennonite immigrants and the challenges they faces as they integrated into Canada. While the conference will hear about the Mennonite migrants who left Canada for Latin America during the 1920s and 1940s, the main focus will be on the return of their descendants between 1960 and 2000. The conference will feature papers on Kanadier immigrant communities in Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta, Nova Scotia, British Columbia and Saskatchewan.
Among issues that will be examined are the following: 1) community formation, 2) work and economics, 3) gender and family relations, 4) health, 5) inter-group relations, 6) education, 7) religious teaching, 8) relations with government, 9) migration and diasporic culture, 10) transplanted Latino and Low German cultures.
The conference is sponsored by the Mennonite Historical Society of Canada, Chair in Mennonite Studies (U of Winnipeg), Mennonite Central Committee, and Canadian Mennonite University.
Keynote Addresses:
- William Janzen, Mennonite Central Committee Canada, Ottawa: Who are the Kanadier?
- Larry Towell, Aylmer, ON, Photography and Old Colony Immigrants of Ontario
The Sending Society:
- Pedro Castro, Mexico City, Mexico Economic Background
- David Quiring, Saskatchewan, Old Colony Ministers and the World
Community Studies:
- Dawn Bowens, Pennsylvania, PA, Bolivian Mennonites of La Crete, Alberta
- Karen Pauls, CBC, The Belizian Kleine Gemeinde Mennonites of Nova Scotia
- Irina Graeber, Texas Tech U., Lubbock, Mexico Mennonites of Seminole, Texas
Health and Service:
- Judith Kulig, Lethbridge, Health and Illness Beliefs among the Alberta Kanadier
- Sheryl Campbell, Pembina, Adult Education and Kanadier Immigrants
- Luann Good Gingrich, Toronto, Old Colony Culture and Ontario Service Workers
Labour and Economics:
- Janis Thiessen, Factory Labour at Friesens, Loewens and Palliser Furniture
- Ted Regehr and Bill Janzen, Hurdles of Integration in Alberta
Gender Relations:
- Tina Fehr Kehler, University of Manitoba, Old Colony Women in Manitoba
- Kerry Fast, University of Toronto, Old Colony women in Ontario
- Patricia Harms, University of Arizona, Women on the Move from Paraguay
Church Life:
- John J. Friesen, CMU, Transplanted Churches in Manitoba
- Bruce Guenther, TWU, The Evangelical Path of the Kanadier
University of Winnipeg Students on:
- The Diaspora Networks according to the newspaper
- Entrepreneurship in Manitoba and Ontario
- A History of The Mennonitische Post
First Hand Accounts: Marvin Dueck, Henry Bergen, Ann Peters
ALL SESSIONS WILL BE HELD AT:
ECKHARDT GRAMATTÉ HALL, UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG