Of This Earth
A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest
A beautiful, moving memoir of a boy’s coming of age, infused with a deep love of the land, from one of Canada’s most cherished and acclaimed writers.
In Of This Earth, Rudy Wiebe gives vivid life again to the vanished world of Speedwell, Saskatchewan, an isolated, poplar-forested, mostly Mennonite community – and Rudy’s first home. Too young to do heavy work, Rudy witnessed a way of life that was soon to disappear. And we experience with him the hard labour of clearing the stony, silty bushland; the digging out of precious wells one bucket of dirt at a time; sorrow at the death of a beloved sister; the disorienting searches for grazing cattle in the vast wilderness sloughs and the sweet…
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February 6, 2007
Rudy Wiebe was born on October 4, 1934, in an isolated farm community of about 250 people in a rugged but lovely region near Fairholme, Saskatchewan. His parents had escaped Soviet Russia with five children in 1930, part of the last generation of homesteaders to settle the Canadian West, and part of a Mennonite history of displacement and emigration through Europe and Asia to North and South America since the seventeenth century. In 1947 his family gave up their bush farm and moved to Coaldale, Alberta, a town east of Lethbridge peopled largely by Ukrainians, Mennonites, Mormons, and Central Europeans, as well as Japanese, who ended up there during WW II.
Rudy Wiebe read as much as possible from an early…
Come Back
Rudy Wiebe
Extraordinary Canadians: Big Bear
Rudy Wiebe
River Of Stone
Rudy Wiebe
Temptations Of Big Bear
Rudy Wiebe
Peace Shall Destroy Many
Rudy Wiebe
The Blue Mountains of China
Rudy Wiebe, Afterword by Eva-Marie Kroller Afterword by Eva-Marie Kroller
Fruits of the Earth
Frederick Philip Grove, Afterword by Rudy Wiebe Afterword by Rudy Wiebe
Of This Earth
Rudy Wiebe
Sweeter Than All The World
Rudy Wiebe
Stolen Life
Yvonne Johnson and Rudy Wiebe
A Discovery Of Strangers
Rudy Wiebe