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Article: Hard Passage: A Mennonite Family's Long Journey from Russia to Canada.(Book review)
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- American Review of Canadian Studies
- Article date:
- September 22, 2007
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Arthur Kroeger. Hard Passage: A Mennonite Family's Long Journey from Russia to Canada. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2007. xii + 176 pages. $60.00 cloth, $34.95 paper.
Hard Passage reads like an epic novel: a family saga spanning two continents and two generations in turbulent times. Arthur Kroeger, a well-known figure in Ottawa who served as deputy minister in several federal departments in the 1970s and 1980s and as chancellor of Carleton University from 1993 to 2002, is the Alberta-born youngest child of Russian Mennonite immigrant parents. It is their story that he has pieced together from personal documents, family recollections, and a good deal of ...