John C Lehr
Biographic Data
| ID | 191296 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John C Lehr |
| GIVEN NAMES | John C |
| FAMILY NAME | Lehr |
| SIGNATURE | LEHR J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Winnipeg |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Natalie Kononenko. Ukrainian Ritual on the Prairies
Outside the Colony
Jews who immigrated to the Canadian prairies before 1914 mostly gravitated to urban areas. Those who chose to farm usually located in Jewish agricultural colonies where a full Jewish life was possible. A minority voluntarily settled in small farming communities among non-Jews. Jewish merchants in prairie towns also became involved in agriculture both as farmers and as agricultural traders and dealers. Few Jews chose to settle on homesteads where …
Starving Ukraine
Reviewed by: Starving Ukraine: The Holodomor and Canada's Response by Serge Cipko John C. Lehr Serge Cipko. Starving Ukraine: The Holodomor and Canada's Response. Regina: University of Regina Press, 2017. pp. xxiii 351 Notes. Bibliography. Index. $80.00 hc. This book by Serge Cipko is an invaluable addition to the historiography of the Ukrainian Holodomor – the famine of 1931-34. It differs from most works on the Holodomor by having its focus on …
Did Your Mother Go To Bimbo School
Naming converts space to place. Place names are often the manifestation of military and political power. The victors write history and embed their culture and power in the landscape by naming and renaming places. In Canada's Prairie West, after 1870, Aboriginal place names were submerged beneath a tide of British imperial nomenclature bestowed by major corporations. Agricultural immigrants from Europe found it difficult to mark their presence in …
The Ukrainian Cultural Landscape in Canada and Brazil
Between 1891 and 1914 thousands of Ukrainian peasants left their ancestral homeland in Western Ukraine to seek land on the agricultural frontiers of Western Canada and southern Brazil. Often these emigrants who left for radically different frontiers originated from the same districts and villages; some even came from the same families. The new landscapes created in Canada and Brazil by these Ukrainian pioneers reflected environmental differences …
Memory and Migration
Reviewed by: Memory and Migration: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Memory Studies ed. by Julia Creet and Andreas Kitzmann John C. Lehr Julia Creet and Andreas Kitzmann, eds. Memory and Migration: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Memory Studies. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. 329 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $65.00 hc Since the publication of the English translation of Pierre Nora's seminal work on memory and history, Realms of Memo…
Community and Frontier
A social and economic history of one of the oldest Ukrainian settlements in Western Canada. Established in 1896, the Stuartburn colony was one of the earliest Ukrainian settlements in western Canada. Based on an analysis of government records, pioneer memoirs, and the Ukrainian and English language press, Community and Frontier is a detailed examination of the social, economic, and geographical challenges of this unique ethnic community. It revea…
Michel Ducharme. Le Concept de liberté au Canada à l'époque des Révolutions atlantiques (1776 – 1838). Georges Leroux. Partita for Glenn Gould
I Am Hutterite , and
Reviewed by: I Am Hutterite, and:Removing the Hutterite Kerchief John C. Lehr Mary-Ann Kirby. I Am Hutterite. Prince Albert, SK: Polka Dot Press 2007. 206 pp. $21.95 sc. Rebecca Hofer. Removing the Hutterite Kerchief. Kelowna, BC: Okanagan Institute Independent Publishing Collegium, 2009. 192 pp. $20.00 sc. The Hutterian brethren are a German-speaking Anabaptist pacifist group that practices communal living. With birth rates that rank among the h…
The distant beat of my father's drums
Heritage Interpretation and Politics in Kfar Etzion, Israel
Kfar Etzion is a Kibbutz first established in Palestine in the 1930s. At the end of the British Mandate, in 1948, it became a de facto Israeli military outpost that controlled access to Jerusalem from the south. Kfar Etzion fell to Arab forces in 1948 and the area became Jordanian territory until 1967 when Israeli forces occupied the West Bank. Kfar Etzion was re-established in the same year. Kfar Etzion now interprets its history through a sophi…
Global patterns and family matters
Settlement
One Family's Frontier
Conventional approaches to the study of historical geography tend to use aggregate data to create discrete patterns and to formulate generalized explanations of the tumultuous process of frontier settlement and community formation. Life history, through the study of the actions of an individual or a family unit, can provide new insights into the decision‐making process and the social tensions that accompanied pioneer settlement and community deve…
Crown, corporation and church
Symbolism and landscape
In the early 1940s, the Jewish National Fund (JNF) acquired lands south of Bethlehem in a region that later became known as the Etzion bloc. In the years that followed, the JNF and the Settlement Department of the Jewish Agency established a bloc of settlements on these lands that included four kibbutzim: Kfar Etzion (1943), Massuot Yitzhak (1945), Ein Zurim (1946), and Revadim (1947). These were the only Jewish settlements in the area between Je…
Jewish Pioneer Agricultural Settlements in Western Canada
Jewish settlers established agricultural settlements in the Canadian Prairie Provinces from the early 1880s through the first decade of the 20th century. Without exception these settlements were eventually abandoned by their founders. Today there are no Jewish rural agricultural communities in western Canada. Environmental adversity and lack of farming experience as major factors in the failure of the Jewish settlements are questioned. This study…
Ethnicity, Religion, and Class as Elements in the Evolution of Lake Winnipeg Resorts
Resorts on the south basin of Lake Winnipeg serve a significant proportion of the summer cottage market of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Of the larger resorts, Winnipeg Beach and Grand Beach were developed by rival railway companies as popular resorts to exploit the mass excursion market, whereas Victoria Beach was developed by a syndicate intent on creating an exclusive, tranquil cottage retreat. These, and other smaller resorts, were and still are patron…
Jewish and Mormon Agricultural Settlement in Western Canada
Mormons and Jews established agricultural settlements in western Canada around the turn of the century. Mormon colonization was generally successful, characterized by its great stability. Abandonment of the land by Mormon communities was rare. In contrast, almost all the Jewish settlements failed. Settlers abandoned their land and retreated to the urban centres of the West. A comparative analysis of the two groups suggests that this difference in…
Creating a landscape
Kinship and Society in the Ukrainian Pioneer Settlement of the Canadian West
The geography and internal structure of Ukrainian block settlements in western Canada illustrate the strength of social ties transferred from the homeland. Settlements were structured according to kinship, village, district, provincial, and national loyalties. In this respect the internal geography of Ukrainian block settlements in Canada replicated that of the western Ukraine in microcosm. Although Settlement within a familiar social‐ cultural m…
The Canadian West discovered
Texas (When I Die)’
As a nation linguistically and regionally fragmented, Canada faces unique problems of national unity and identity. The truth of Northrop Frye's observation that ‘Canada has passed from a pre‐national to a post‐national phase without ever having become a nation’ is illustrated by the trauma of partially sloughing the trappings of colonial status in 1982, 115 years after attaining de facto independence in 1867. National identity in Canada rests pre…
Macro‐historical Geography and the Great Chartered Companies
Man's impact on the Western Canadian landscape
Crown, corporation and church
Kinship and Society in the Ukrainian Pioneer Settlement of the Canadian West
The geography and internal structure of Ukrainian block settlements in western Canada illustrate the strength of social ties transferred from the homeland. Settlements were structured according to kinship, village, district, provincial, and national loyalties. In this respect the internal geography of Ukrainian block settlements in Canada replicated that of the western Ukraine in microcosm. Although Settlement within a familiar social‐ cultural m…
Texas (When I Die)’
As a nation linguistically and regionally fragmented, Canada faces unique problems of national unity and identity. The truth of Northrop Frye's observation that ‘Canada has passed from a pre‐national to a post‐national phase without ever having become a nation’ is illustrated by the trauma of partially sloughing the trappings of colonial status in 1982, 115 years after attaining de facto independence in 1867. National identity in Canada rests pre…
Did Your Mother Go To Bimbo School
Naming converts space to place. Place names are often the manifestation of military and political power. The victors write history and embed their culture and power in the landscape by naming and renaming places. In Canada's Prairie West, after 1870, Aboriginal place names were submerged beneath a tide of British imperial nomenclature bestowed by major corporations. Agricultural immigrants from Europe found it difficult to mark their presence in …
Symbolism and landscape
In the early 1940s, the Jewish National Fund (JNF) acquired lands south of Bethlehem in a region that later became known as the Etzion bloc. In the years that followed, the JNF and the Settlement Department of the Jewish Agency established a bloc of settlements on these lands that included four kibbutzim: Kfar Etzion (1943), Massuot Yitzhak (1945), Ein Zurim (1946), and Revadim (1947). These were the only Jewish settlements in the area between Je…
Creating a landscape
Man's impact on the Western Canadian landscape
Macro‐historical Geography and the Great Chartered Companies
Texas (When I Die)’
As a nation linguistically and regionally fragmented, Canada faces unique problems of national unity and identity. The truth of Northrop Frye's observation that ‘Canada has passed from a pre‐national to a post‐national phase without ever having become a nation’ is illustrated by the trauma of partially sloughing the trappings of colonial status in 1982, 115 years after attaining de facto independence in 1867. National identity in Canada rests pre…
The Canadian West discovered
Kinship and Society in the Ukrainian Pioneer Settlement of the Canadian West
The geography and internal structure of Ukrainian block settlements in western Canada illustrate the strength of social ties transferred from the homeland. Settlements were structured according to kinship, village, district, provincial, and national loyalties. In this respect the internal geography of Ukrainian block settlements in Canada replicated that of the western Ukraine in microcosm. Although Settlement within a familiar social‐ cultural m…
Creating a landscape
Ethnicity, Religion, and Class as Elements in the Evolution of Lake Winnipeg Resorts
Resorts on the south basin of Lake Winnipeg serve a significant proportion of the summer cottage market of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Of the larger resorts, Winnipeg Beach and Grand Beach were developed by rival railway companies as popular resorts to exploit the mass excursion market, whereas Victoria Beach was developed by a syndicate intent on creating an exclusive, tranquil cottage retreat. These, and other smaller resorts, were and still are patron…
Jewish and Mormon Agricultural Settlement in Western Canada
Mormons and Jews established agricultural settlements in western Canada around the turn of the century. Mormon colonization was generally successful, characterized by its great stability. Abandonment of the land by Mormon communities was rare. In contrast, almost all the Jewish settlements failed. Settlers abandoned their land and retreated to the urban centres of the West. A comparative analysis of the two groups suggests that this difference in…
Jewish Pioneer Agricultural Settlements in Western Canada
Jewish settlers established agricultural settlements in the Canadian Prairie Provinces from the early 1880s through the first decade of the 20th century. Without exception these settlements were eventually abandoned by their founders. Today there are no Jewish rural agricultural communities in western Canada. Environmental adversity and lack of farming experience as major factors in the failure of the Jewish settlements are questioned. This study…
Crown, corporation and church
Symbolism and landscape
In the early 1940s, the Jewish National Fund (JNF) acquired lands south of Bethlehem in a region that later became known as the Etzion bloc. In the years that followed, the JNF and the Settlement Department of the Jewish Agency established a bloc of settlements on these lands that included four kibbutzim: Kfar Etzion (1943), Massuot Yitzhak (1945), Ein Zurim (1946), and Revadim (1947). These were the only Jewish settlements in the area between Je…
Settlement
One Family's Frontier
Conventional approaches to the study of historical geography tend to use aggregate data to create discrete patterns and to formulate generalized explanations of the tumultuous process of frontier settlement and community formation. Life history, through the study of the actions of an individual or a family unit, can provide new insights into the decision‐making process and the social tensions that accompanied pioneer settlement and community deve…
Global patterns and family matters
Heritage Interpretation and Politics in Kfar Etzion, Israel
Kfar Etzion is a Kibbutz first established in Palestine in the 1930s. At the end of the British Mandate, in 1948, it became a de facto Israeli military outpost that controlled access to Jerusalem from the south. Kfar Etzion fell to Arab forces in 1948 and the area became Jordanian territory until 1967 when Israeli forces occupied the West Bank. Kfar Etzion was re-established in the same year. Kfar Etzion now interprets its history through a sophi…
The distant beat of my father's drums
I Am Hutterite , and
Reviewed by: I Am Hutterite, and:Removing the Hutterite Kerchief John C. Lehr Mary-Ann Kirby. I Am Hutterite. Prince Albert, SK: Polka Dot Press 2007. 206 pp. $21.95 sc. Rebecca Hofer. Removing the Hutterite Kerchief. Kelowna, BC: Okanagan Institute Independent Publishing Collegium, 2009. 192 pp. $20.00 sc. The Hutterian brethren are a German-speaking Anabaptist pacifist group that practices communal living. With birth rates that rank among the h…
Michel Ducharme. Le Concept de liberté au Canada à l'époque des Révolutions atlantiques (1776 – 1838). Georges Leroux. Partita for Glenn Gould
Community and Frontier
A social and economic history of one of the oldest Ukrainian settlements in Western Canada. Established in 1896, the Stuartburn colony was one of the earliest Ukrainian settlements in western Canada. Based on an analysis of government records, pioneer memoirs, and the Ukrainian and English language press, Community and Frontier is a detailed examination of the social, economic, and geographical challenges of this unique ethnic community. It revea…
Memory and Migration
Reviewed by: Memory and Migration: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Memory Studies ed. by Julia Creet and Andreas Kitzmann John C. Lehr Julia Creet and Andreas Kitzmann, eds. Memory and Migration: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Memory Studies. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. 329 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $65.00 hc Since the publication of the English translation of Pierre Nora's seminal work on memory and history, Realms of Memo…
Did Your Mother Go To Bimbo School
Naming converts space to place. Place names are often the manifestation of military and political power. The victors write history and embed their culture and power in the landscape by naming and renaming places. In Canada's Prairie West, after 1870, Aboriginal place names were submerged beneath a tide of British imperial nomenclature bestowed by major corporations. Agricultural immigrants from Europe found it difficult to mark their presence in …
The Ukrainian Cultural Landscape in Canada and Brazil
Between 1891 and 1914 thousands of Ukrainian peasants left their ancestral homeland in Western Ukraine to seek land on the agricultural frontiers of Western Canada and southern Brazil. Often these emigrants who left for radically different frontiers originated from the same districts and villages; some even came from the same families. The new landscapes created in Canada and Brazil by these Ukrainian pioneers reflected environmental differences …
Starving Ukraine
Reviewed by: Starving Ukraine: The Holodomor and Canada's Response by Serge Cipko John C. Lehr Serge Cipko. Starving Ukraine: The Holodomor and Canada's Response. Regina: University of Regina Press, 2017. pp. xxiii 351 Notes. Bibliography. Index. $80.00 hc. This book by Serge Cipko is an invaluable addition to the historiography of the Ukrainian Holodomor – the famine of 1931-34. It differs from most works on the Holodomor by having its focus on …
Outside the Colony
Jews who immigrated to the Canadian prairies before 1914 mostly gravitated to urban areas. Those who chose to farm usually located in Jewish agricultural colonies where a full Jewish life was possible. A minority voluntarily settled in small farming communities among non-Jews. Jewish merchants in prairie towns also became involved in agriculture both as farmers and as agricultural traders and dealers. Few Jews chose to settle on homesteads where …
Natalie Kononenko. Ukrainian Ritual on the Prairies
Geography (20 works) · History (17 works) · Archaeology (16 works) · Political science (14 works) · Canadian Identity and History (13 works) · History (12 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Ethnology (7 works) · Human settlement (7 works)