Author: FEDEWICH, ELICK JOHN
Title: Living in a Glass House and Being Raised By a Small Town the Memoirs of Elick John Fedewich As Told to Will Peacock
Description: Vancouver BC: ArcPrint, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0995071802. Signed by Author; As new.; Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Bright solid oblong book, brown suedelike spine with black stamped cowboy on front by spine and black stamped titles on spine. The boards are paper covered with a daytime image of Strathmore Lake on the front and a nighttime image on the back. B&W and colour illustrations and photographs throughout. Bound in blue satin ribbon serving as place marker. ; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 235 pages; A sometimes humourous, sometimes touching memoir of a man raised on the prairies by his Ukrainian immigrant parents who came to Canada after the devastation to Ukraine in WWI and the Russian Revolution. In the 1920s, Canada offered rich farm land for little money and the second wave of 70,000 Ukrainians found a warm welcome. A loving tribute is given to his parents' homeland and the hard trip that they undertook to find a new life. This is an anecdote filled account of his life and travels.. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued .

Keywords: 0995071802 Alberta Ukraine Prairies Biographies & Memoirs


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