TY - BOOK AU - Kukushkin,Vadim TI - From Peasants to Labourers: Ukrainian and Belarusan Immigration from the Russian Empire to Canada T2 - McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History Ser. SN - 9780773560468 AV - F1035.R8 U1 - 304.8/710477 PY - 2007/// CY - Montreal PB - McGill-Queen's University Press KW - Belarusians -- Canada -- History -- 20th century KW - Ukrainians -- Canada -- History -- 20th century KW - Bi�elorusses -- Canada -- Histoire -- 20e si�ecle KW - Ukrainiens -- Canada -- Histoire -- 20e si�ecle KW - Russia, Western -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects -- History -- 20th century KW - Canada -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects -- History -- 20th century KW - Russie (Ouest) -- �Emigration et immigration -- Aspect �economique -- Histoire -- 20e si�ecle KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Tables, Figures, and Maps -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Transliteration, Terminology, and Dates -- Introduction -- 1 Economy, Society, and Migration on Russia's Western Frontier -- 2 The Anatomy of Migration -- 3 An Airtight Empire? -- 4 "So Close to Being Asiatics -- 5 Frontiersmen and Urban Dwellers -- 6 Sojourners and Soldiers -- 7 A Difficult Constituency: Priests, Preachers, and Immigrants -- 8 Bolsheviks or Rebels? -- Conclusion -- Appendix: The Likacheff-Ragosine-Mathers Collection as a Statistical Source -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z N2 - Canadian immigration from the Russian Empire is often portrayed as consisting entirely of non-Slavic minorities and religious refugees. Vadim Kukushkin shows that a large number of immigrants were peasants from Russia's Ukrainian and Belarusan provinces attracted by Canadian wage-earning opportunities, unlike their neighbours from Austrian-ruled Ukraine who searched for land UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ostimteknik/detail.action?docID=3331850 ER -