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Where Money Grew on Trees: A History of the Romanian Pioneers of Lennard Manitoba

by John Goodes

Price: $30.00 CAN + shipping and handling

(Full proceeds go toward supporting the St. Elijah Pioneer Museum)

Product Description

Now in its 4th printing Where Money Grew on Trees is an intimate portrait of 100 years of Romanian ancestry in and around the small rural village of Lennard, Manitoba. From the pioneers' grueling passage and homesteading years, to the building and lurking dissolution of a community, this is the story of transitions and traditions, economic changes and shifting identities, survival and adaptation.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION and analysis puts historical events in context, but it's the details that bring the story to life: the names of the people, the odours of the food, the fickle weather, the lost art of subsistence living, faith, farming and festivals, life and death.

For the descendants of these Romanian pioneers, Where Money Grew on Trees is the first comprehensive history ever written on their forebears. But it is also a true people's history, a vivid record of how peasant immigrants adapted, survived and contributed to shaping the Canadian rural landscape.

WRITTEN FROM oral accounts and archival research, the book also includes a brief history of Romania and the Voloca region.

Product Details

Description: Soft cover, black and white illustrations, 212 pages.
Publisher: St. Elijah Pioneer Museum, 4th printing, 2008.

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