Ebook: From Peasants to Labourers: Ukrainian and Belarusan Immigration from the Russian Empire to Canada

This illuminating study of transnational population mobility offers a new interpretation of early twentieth-century Canadian immigration from tsarist Russia.

Canadian immigration from the Russian Empire is often portrayed as consisting entirely of non-Slavic minorities and religious refugees. Vadim Kukushkin shows that a large number of immigrants were peasants from Russia's Ukrainian and Belarusan provinces attracted by Canadian wage-earning opportunities, unlike their neighbours from Austrian-ruled Ukraine who searched for land.