Collections: Andrew Wall

Conform: The Mennonite Migration to Mexico of the 1920s tells the fascinating story of the nearly 8,000 Mennonites who left Manitoba and Saskatchewan for northern Mexico in the 1920s, in the largest mass emigration in Canada’s history. Convinced they had been promised autonomy over the education of their children when they immigrated from imperial Russia a half-century earlier, they felt betrayed by public school legislation introduced during the First World War, meant to instill loyalty…