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Related subjects Frontier and pioneer life--Manitoba Manitoba--Biography Oral history Ukrainians--Manitoba--Biography Publication information Winnipeg, Manitoba: M. Ewanchuk, 1981	Pioneer profiles : Ukrainian settlers in Manitoba Ewanchuk, Michael
	Table of Contents Cover Contents List of Charts and Maps Foreword Preface Dedication Ukrainian Pioneers 1891-1899 Those Who Led the Way The First Permanent Settler of 1892 - Wasyl Yatchew Prof. Joseph Olsekow: "I have acted as a true Canadian Patriot" Indentured Ukrainian Settlers in the West Reserve First Residents in Manitoba Establishing Contact with Oleskow's Settlers Problems of Communication The Snowstorm The Exodus The First of Prof. Oleskow's Settlers of 1896 We Set Out for Brazil and End in Canada Canada At Last Selecting a Homestead Start in the Homestead The Building of a House My Boyhood in Stuartburn Life Was Hard By Wagon to Lake Dauphin The First Ukrainian Missionary Cross of Freedom Palm Sunday in Stuartburn, April 18, 1897 First Settler in the Duck Mountain Region The Duck Mountain Pioneer The First School One-Arm Farmer Nicholas A. Hryhorczuk of Ethelbert Pioneers of the Southern Slopes of the Riding Mountains The Mountain Road Settlers of 1898 First Night in Neepawa We Came to Hun's Valley Nicholas Zubrak The Districts South of Olga The First Generation of Pioneers of Oakburn Wasyl Ewashko Pioneer Days in the Stuartburn District I Started in a "Buda", a Sod-Roof Hut Married a Sundown Girl 55 Years as an Assistant Postmistress An Immigrant Girl of 1899 Fourteen Families Left Senkiw Early Marriage We Acquired No Great Riches, But Will Leave No Debts Working with Oxen Carried the Children Across the River Senkiw a Happy Place Land of a Better Future The Smallpox Epidemic at Stuartburn Early Days in Pleasant Home The Drohomereskis of Pleasant Home Stonebreaker Turned Farmer Getting Started on a Farm First Employment The Two Annas Group Settlements 1900-1910 Life of the Homesteaders in the Dauphin Area Forest Reserve: Odd-Even Sections (Trouble in the Kosiw Area) The Zoria - Ashville - Halicz Farmer Distress and Sadness Bush Fire An Elk in the Stable Sadness Visits the Pioneer Family Pioneering in Ukraina Son of a Pioneer on His Own Going into Business The Potoskis of Sifton The Negrychs of Venlaw I Farmed North of Gilbert Plains The Dauphin Nonagenarian The Hykawys of Gonta Stefan Dolhun Settlers to the North-West of Strathclair We Came to Angusville Area in 1900 Started on a Seech Homestead I Remember the Flu Epidemic The Flu Epidemic Seventy Years in Canada Pioneers of the Interlake Twelve Years to Get a Patent for a Homestead The Builder - Wasyl Ewanchuk Trouble: "Beeda" and That's All Harvey the Immigration Agent Bringing Supplies from Gimli The Amulet Paul Kolodie of S.W. 19-20-2E The Retired Blind Farmer of Meleb Wasyl Woroby at 94 Influenza Epidemic In Winnipeg I Became a Farmer at Seventeen Michael Wosny of Foley East of the Red River First Trip from Beausejour to Brokenhead in 1902 First Trip to Beausejour with Our Oxen The Harvester of 1902 A Market Gardener's Wife Cook's Creek Nonagenarian We Had a Store in Elma Farming South-East of Stuartburn From Farmer to Barber Early Days in Gardenton Early Days on the Roseau First Piece of Pie One Horrible Day Sixty-Seven Years on a Sundown Farm Pioneer Days in the Sirko District The Jamans The Vita Wiregrass Farmer The Arbakka Mechanic - Miller The Tolstoi Grist Mill I Was a Shepherd in Pembina, N.D. Pioneer Teachers The Early Group Teacher - Fork River Merchant Pennsylvania Miner's Daughter - Pioneer Teacher He Loved His Fellowmen Fifty Years a Teacher Nonagenarian - 100 Per Cent Canadian The Brandon Training School Group and Other Teachers Teacher, Farmer, Beekeeper Reasons for Coming to Canada Organization of a School A Fine Citizen Michael Sytnyk - Community Leader Teacher and Clergyman - Rev. Peter Sametz The Immigrant Artist - Jacob Maydanyk Seeing the Editor Extra-gang The Strike At the Training School John Rudachek Sixty Years in Vita Teacher from Zhoda - Ivan M. Storozuk Stefan Bilinsky A Doctor from Garland Life on the Homestead Eighteen Years at Zelena - Mrs. Mary Bilash Teaching Years Were Rewarding Years I Only Went to School When the Snow Was on the Ground - Theodore Humeniuk Other Ventures Going into Business The Malonton Merchant Pioneer Creamery Man The First Cheese Factory The Broad Valley Bride of 1912 The Dauphin Storekeeper Pioneer Sandy Lake Merchant Fifty-Two Years a Merchant The Poplarfield Sheep Farmer - John Werbeniuk Danylo Torbiak of Poplarfield Growing-Up in Poplarfield The Butcher's Wife - Mrs. M. Zigil Some Stayed in the City Maria Hawryluk I am 93 Years Old The Girl From Shamokin - Mrs. O. Arsenych Stephen Skobliak The Winnipeg Strike "All I have known in my Life is Work" Mr. Adam Kasianchuk of Transcona Nicholas Zalozetsky: Teacher-Pharmacist The 1910-1914 Period The Land of the Pre-War Group Fred Trach of Pleasant Home A Bride at the Age of Seventeen I am Eight-Six Antonia Manulak 46 Years on the Farm Picking Seneca Roots in Minnesota Snakes and Snake Roots In search of New Lands and Opportunities The Gimli Exodus of 1910 Canada: Land of Opportunity Bowsman Farmer of the Ox-era I Chose Menzie, Manitoba John Wachniak, the Winnipeg Auctioneer Left Home at Sixteen Came to Winnipeg in 1930 Tragedy West of Amaranth The Coming of the Ukrainians to the Roblin Area Pioneer of Timber District - Michael Filewich: Sixty Years a Farmer The Marble Ridge Homesteader The "Arctic" Iceman I Worked at the Manitoba Rolling Mills The St. Martin Farmer Early Days in the Shell River Country The Centenarian - Michael Rehaluk Conclusion Acknowledgements Other Books by the Author Index	Go to page: Search this volume search

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