- Title:
- Memory, identity, and the challenge of community among Ukrainians in the Sudbury region, 1901-1939
- Creator:
- Zembrzycki, Stacey Raeanna
- Date Created:
- 2007
- Degree Awarded:
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Subjects:
- Ukrainian Canadians Ontario Sudbury Region Social Conditions Ukrinians Ukrainian Canadians Ethnic identity World War, 1914-1918 Ukrainian Canadians
- Geographical Focus:
- Canada Ontario Sudbury
- Supporting Materials:
- n/a
- Description:
- This dissertation examines the ways in which Catholic, Orthodox, nationalist, and progressive Ukrainian men, women, and children, both immigrants and those of Ukrainian descent, formed a distinct ethnic community in the Sudbury region between 1901 and 1939. Specifically, it demonstrates how the community developed, paying particular attention to the ways that individual and group identities, social networks, and power relations impacted its evolution over time. Moreover, this dissertation depicts the ways in which the host society, on a local, regional, and national level, perceived and treated Sudbury’s Ukrainians. Set in a period of change for this ethnic community, the region, and the country more broadly, this dissertation offers new narratives about World War I, the so-called “Roaring Twenties,” and the Depression. In addition to viewing gender, ethnicity, class, region, and age as important categories of analysis, it regards community as a problem which ought to be studied. Community, in this instance, is not a simple and static entity, but rather an imagined reality, a social interaction, and a process. The adoption of a fluid model thereby enables an examination of the varying ways in which individuals, Ukrainians and non-Ukrainians, attached different meanings to community. These meanings, as this dissertation argues, were dependent upon the geographic spaces that these individuals occupied, the social networks to which they belonged, and the real and imagined identities and experiences that they had both within and on the margins of their communities. This dissertation not only reconstructs the contours of this ethnic community and the ways in which its members negotiated their places within and outside of it, but also includes a discussion of the author’s archive stories. Sensitive to what constitutes as an archive, it is a highly personal journey into the author’s imagined Ukrainian community, her Baba’s (grandmother) Ukrainian community, and the communities which other Ukrainians in the Sudbury region have experienced. The archive stories which wind through the narrative of this dissertation detail the challenges of working with both written and memory sources and at the same time, offer new interpretative frameworks for understanding the histories of immigrant communities.
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- Zembrzycki, Stacey Raeanna. 2007. "Memory, identity, and the challenge of community among Ukrainians in the Sudbury region, 1901-1939", Department of History, Carleton University
- Link to this page:
- https://cuhistory.github.io/grads/items/hist_133.html
Rights
- Rights:
- Copyright the author, all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.