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According to BabaStacey Zembrzycki

According to Baba

2014238 pages
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"Dreams of steady employment in the mining sector led thousands of Ukrainian immigrants to northern Ontario in the early 1900s. As a child, historian Stacey Zembrzycki listened to her baba's stories about Sudbury's small but polarized community and what it was like growing up ethnic during the Depression. According to Baba grew out of those stories, out of a granddaughter's desire to capture the experiences of her grandparents' generation on paper. Eighty-two interviews conducted by Stacey and her grandmother, Olga, laid the groundwork for this insightful and deeply personal social history of…

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5 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2015
    UBC Press · 252 pages · 9780774826969
  • Other · English · 2014
    University of British Columbia Press · 9780774826976
  • Other · English · 2014
    University of British Columbia Press · 9781306528573
  • Other · English · 2014
    University of British Columbia Press · 9780774826983
  • Other · English · 2014
    University of British Columbia Press · 224 pages · 9780774826952
Ukrainians, canadaCanada, biographyOntario, social conditionsUkrainian CanadiansSocial conditionsBiographyInterviewsOral history