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- Title
JEWISH PIONEER SETTLEMENTS IN SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA 1884 +.
- Authors
Arnold, A. J.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the life of Jewish immigrants at the land settlements in Canada. The Department of Agriculture and the Department of the Interior in the Public Archives of Canada has all the documents pertaining to the Jewish settlement in West Canada. Sir Alexander Gait, the Canadian High Commissioner, has exerted effort to establish a land settlement in Manitoba for the Russian Jews. His request was granted upon the approval of the land settlement in Moosomin, Saskatchewan, the west of Manitoba. This was named as the New Jerusalem. However, the Russian Jews encountered crop failures which lead to the deterioration of the New Jerusalem in 1888.
- Subjects
MOOSOMIN (Sask.); SASKATCHEWAN; MANITOBA; CANADA; LAND settlement; GAIT, Alexander; RUSSIAN Jews; CROP quality; JEWISH migrations
- Publication
Western States Jewish History, 1998, Vol 31, Issue 1, p43
- ISSN
0043-4221
- Publication type
Article