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University of Mary Washington

2018

Immigration

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Two Governments, A Railway And A Church: The Old Colony Mennonite Relocation To Central British Columbia In The 1940s, Dawn S. Bowen Jan 2018

Two Governments, A Railway And A Church: The Old Colony Mennonite Relocation To Central British Columbia In The 1940s, Dawn S. Bowen

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The article focuses on Old Colony Mennonite Relocation to Central British Columbia (B.C.) in the 1940s. It mentions Governments of Saskatchewan and British Columbia, and the Canadian National Railway (CN), cooperated to enable these families to begin new lives in central B.C. It also demonstrates that a common faith in the early success of the venture and documented the long and varied history of Mennonite migration.