MANITOBA: The North-Western Province of Canada. Anonymous

(CANADIAN JUDAICA).

Ellerman, Harms & Co.

Amsterdam

circa 1884

Text in Yiddish. Illustrated.

An economic, social and political guide to encourage migrants to settle this mid-continental province of Canada. In 1881 the Manitoba census showed just 33 families in the provinvce. That very year, the assassination of Czar Alexander II and the subsequent persecutions against the Jews in Russia, created an influx of Jewish migrants to Manitoba and throughout Canada. See A.A. Chiel, Russian Jewish-Immigration, in: Jews in Manitoba, a Social History (1961) pp.25-42. This prospectus unknown to Chiel