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Hard Passage: A Mennonite Family's Long Journey from Russia to Canada.(Book review)
Hard Passage A Mennonite Family's Long Journey from Russia to Canada by Arthur Kroeger. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 288 pp., illus., paper, $34.95.
This book may seem like a family history but it is much more than that. True, it was written by a man who went through many of the difficult times mentioned in the book and can speak from first hand experience. But Arthur Kroeger also is an academic who served for ten years as Chancellor of Carleton University in Ottawa. The result is a family history set in the larger framework of Mennonite history in Europe and Canada.
The book follows the story of the author's father, Heindrich, who was born in ...
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